I’m still trying to come to grips with the acquisition of TextDrive by Joyent. I’m pretty sure Dean Allen and Jason Hoffman wouldn’t have sold if everything wasn’t nice and dandy, but I’m still afraid that I will miss the friendly style with which they were running the company and that Joyent (of which I know nothing about, except that they sell a nice application and that John Gruber works for them) will somehow spoil it all.
I would have said, just last week, that Joyent was indeed a Web 2.0 start-up, with a nice product but without the resources needed to pull it, specially when they are distributing hardware; but looks like it has deep pockets. Had I fantasized last week about a merger, it would have been the other way around, with TXD taking the lead; or at least, with parity.
Well, I suppose only time will tell. As long as TextDrive is TextDrive, and don’t meddle with my hosting, I will be happy about it. I’m looking forward, though, to Joyent’s much fanfared webmail app, which TXD customers will get to enjoy.
Full disclosure: I am a TXD VC-II customer and this site is, indeed, hosted at Tex^H^H^HJoyent