Man, corporate political games in an open source project.
I don't feel like I can possibly have an informed opinion on this, but I certainly feel played for having voiced a less informed opinion on the original discussion.
That's right, and with their expertise in libuv they could easily target a version to large multicore (32, 64) servers. IBM has also created a PowerPC fork, incidentally.
...makes Ben's decision to pull out of the project even more interesting though. Where does that leave StrongLoop?