• http://nodejs.org/ – Evented I/O for V8 javascript
• http://www.jaxer.org/ – Ajax server
• http://narwhaljs.org/ – Cross-platform, multi-interpreter, general purpose JavaScript platform
• http://commonjs.org/ – A group with a goal of building up the JavaScript ecosystem for web servers, desktop and command line apps and in the browser

The year we make contact with javascript as a platform in its own right?