IBM voted "no" due to lack of decimal arithmetic support. The rest of the planet voted "yes" except for Intel, who didn't have take enough time to review IP issues. The two thirds necessary to approve the spec was achieved along with fast track to ISO. Fortunately, voting "no" doesn't mean that IBM can't implement the new spec in their own Javascript implementation.
The gory details for my fellow language geeks:
http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-262.htm
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