I have a similar story except that the executive is the founder and created the original web site over a decade ago. Now, he's not a bad programmer but he's no

I have a similar story except that the executive is the founder and created the original web site over a decade ago. Now, he's not a bad programmer but he's not really a good one either, where he excels are ideas and architecture. We had been working for months on moving the site to a more modern platform (RoR) when he called us into a room and told us that we were going to move to PHP and Java. Everyone just looked at him like he had just sprouted a second head. Sometimes its bad for executives to learn programming. :(