well if you are a member of any of their large user groups you would be asking why has IBM forsaken them? They really went off the rails in a bad way seeming to have forgotten their hardware base in z, i, and even p, to where you had to look long and hard to find mention of any of those platforms during announcements.

Going to have to wait and see if IBM changes direction but last year wasn't fun as they began the shutdown of their developerworks wikis that had so much user contributed material and this change came out of the blue with little warning. that left even groups in IBM struggling to preserve knowledge built up over the years