I was with him until the last paragraph. The NoSQL trend is about bringing more options to the table when solving your specific problem, not trying to take a so

I was with him until the last paragraph. The NoSQL trend is about bringing more options to the table when solving your specific problem, not trying to take a solution to a specific problem and make it general (as he claims OpenID, AtomPub, and XML do). He's right in saying developers should evaluate it and lord knows there's a lot of hype, but it's hardly related. Now, if SQL were the new thing and had been developed by a group trying to make a standard API for CRUD operations based on some new generalized "Relational Algebra" concept that they extracted out of a couple of company payroll applications, I'd say he was onto something.