While the subject matter is quite serious, the decision can't help but raise a jaded techies wry grimace, as an epitome of the whole management making hasty tec

While the subject matter is quite serious, the decision can't help but raise a jaded techies wry grimace, as an epitome of the whole management making hasty tech decisions from a non-tech standpoint headaches, where the consequences get passed down as Our Industry's Problem. And don't get me wrong - management can and does sometimes make well informed, guided tech decisions. But in circumstances like this, where the numerous issues are plain to conceptualise, if not entirely specify in advance - well, many of us have been there, I guess.