Last night Mark Mayo hosted the first Joyent meetup in Vancouver.

I've been following the Joyent adventures for quite some time. They're a small company, but they're aiming high. A while back, they merged with TextDrive, and became a vertically integrated hosting + applications/product company (and even open-sourced their Rails-based Connector suite -- see you at OSCMS next year!). In many ways, this is what Bryght's partnership with WorkHabit has been about: if we hadn't found such great partners, we would have had to build their expertise as part of our own company. Application hosting is still something that isn't that well understood, and the commodity-shared-hosting-optimized-for-Dreamweaver is in for a rude awakening one of these days.