The secrets of Node's success: The other big player is HP. Shortly after HP acquired Palm, Palm's webOS mobile operating system added Node. This was a smart move for HP, and was very well received by the webOS community:
If you think about it, Node delivers a services platform for the cloud, so is there a way that we could work together? We got together with Ryan Dahl of Node to try this out, and it turns out that Node works fantastically well on a mobile device! Major kudos should go to the V8 team for creating a great VM and to Ryan for writing efficient code that scaled down from the cloud to the device. -- Dion Almaer
Putting Node on a mobile device turns the idea of Server Side JavaScript on its head, but why not? With Node the JavaScript engine is small enough, the code is portable enough, and the programming model is light and asynchronous - a perfect combination a mobile device. It's possible that this, rather than a Rails-like MVC framework or a content management system, will be what propels Node into ubiquity.