StrongLoop employs 2 node core committers, Ben Noordhuis and Bert Belder, who are also two of the most active libuv committers. (They have other folks that work there, of course, but those two also work on Node itself quite a lot.)
Joyent still is the custodian and IP owner of the Node.js project. They pay me to work on node, and also provide the project with marketing, legal, hosting, and other resources. Joyent also uses Node extensively in their technology stack, and builds tools to debug their own and their customers' production Node applications.
StrongLoop will be providing support to users of their Node Distro, which bundles v0.10 with a few battle-tested npm modules.
Joyent and StrongLoop are very different companies, and while they're not officially partners, that I'm aware of, they are certainly not competitors in any sense.
As I read it, Joyent relicenses the IP under MIT, so although they may be the IP "owner" they immediately give anyone a license to do pretty much whatever with the code.
Definitely appreciate that they pay you to work on it. Appreciate that there are new companies in the ecosystem too.
And finally someone who looks like they are going to support Node on Windows and Linux!
“For those looking for commercial support, StrongLoop (Ben Noordhuis & Bert Belder's company) has released a distribution containing node v0.10 that they will support on Windows, Mac, Red Hat/Fedora, Debian/Ubuntu and multiple cloud platforms. You can download their Node distribution here.” —http://blog.nodejs.org/2013/03/11/node-v0-10-0-stable/
StrongLoop employs 2 node core committers, Ben Noordhuis and Bert Belder, who are also two of the most active libuv committers. (They have other folks that work there, of course, but those two also work on Node itself quite a lot.)
Joyent still is the custodian and IP owner of the Node.js project. They pay me to work on node, and also provide the project with marketing, legal, hosting, and other resources. Joyent also uses Node extensively in their technology stack, and builds tools to debug their own and their customers' production Node applications.
StrongLoop will be providing support to users of their Node Distro, which bundles v0.10 with a few battle-tested npm modules.
Joyent and StrongLoop are very different companies, and while they're not officially partners, that I'm aware of, they are certainly not competitors in any sense.