>Yeah, I'm going to assume the technology change was not what improved things, but the engineers who were working on the problem. I agree, this sounded like a

>Yeah, I'm going to assume the technology change was not what improved things, but the engineers who were working on the problem. I agree, this sounded like a technical solution to a social problem. The real issue sounded like the disconnect between the application folks and the db folks. If trashing one decent architecture for another was the catalyst they needed to bring around development culture change, it was a good move, but it hardly sounds like they had a technology problem.