It’s no mystery. In the early-mid 90s IBM was ramping up on Smalltalk believing it to be the language of the future enterprise. In the late 90s they realised th

It’s no mystery. In the early-mid 90s IBM was ramping up on Smalltalk believing it to be the language of the future enterprise. In the late 90s they realised that jumping on the Java bandwagon would be more profitable so they ditched Smalltalk almost overnight. The same reason IBM does anything, including Linux.