I think it's great news. Node development has been glacial for a while now. There's an issue where people are sharing logos, https://github.com/iojs/io.js/issues/37, highly recommend.
When a company I worked for tried Joyent for hosting, I found it strange that Joyent's own package manager didn't offer the latest stable version--in fact, their confusingly named plans at that time came installed with a few different then-old versions as default options. That read to me like a lack of support or investment in Node as a technology.
