Joyent Public Cloud EOL
Can anyone explain Joyent to me? My understanding always was that they&#x27;re some special kind of hosting provider. But I never really got it. They sponsor Node.js, they sponsor all kinds of ex-Sun Solaris-related stuff, employing high profile people from both communities. What does supporting (and, at a time in the past, basically running) Node.js get a hosting provider? What about Joyent&#x27;s products is related to Node at all?<p>But oh, they&#x27;re cancelling the public cloud, which I assume was the hosting service? Then what are they now? I went to their site but I totally didn&#x27;t get it, I&#x27;m obviously not the target audience.<p>So, what does Joyent really do, how to they make money, and how does it make business sense for them to do all that illumos&#x2F;zfs&#x2F;node etc etc stuff? Are they an AWS competitor? A Heroku competitor? An Oracle&#x2F;ex-Sun competitor? I really can&#x27;t place them.