Those same tools are available for people here in the US as well. Even YOU can download (for free - as in beer) DB2 Express for your own use. The only limits are: up to 2 dual core processors and 4GB of RAM. Otherwise you can service as large, and as many a database(s), and any number of users that the hardware limitations can reasonably accomodate.
I guess perhaps that you find it somehow un-American for an American company to provide development tools to people, the world over, to learn to develop applications for their products and services.
Oh, and last time I checked; IBM has customers the world over. Perhaps they should shun the rest of the world and just concentrate on the US. Would that satisfy you?
As a stockholder I wouldn't be pleased.
For questioning technology transfers between countries, at a time of war?
I guess perhaps that you find it somehow un-American for an American company to provide development tools to people, the world over
For free? Yeah, that is a little un-American.
As a stockholder I wouldn't be pleased.
IBM stockholders know what's best for the USA? Then why aren't most of their employees on our soil?