From my lowly developer point of view.<p>Power may be a bit quicker than Intel, but it&#x27;s unfamiliar to many. Nvidia is breaking new ground, it&#x27;s sexy, accessible, and cheaper.<p>On the software side it&#x27;s a similar story. Why use their unknown proprietary cloud stuff when I can just make use of the plethora python&#x2F;julia&#x2F;clojure&#x2F;R stuff? AWS is fancy and ever expanding, Softlayer is a PITA.<p>IBM biz news <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;finance.yahoo.com&#x2F;q&#x2F;h?s=ibm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;finance.yahoo.com&#x2F;q&#x2F;h?s=ibm</a>