[kennygorman]

>The claims that some crap like MongoDB (of all things!) >service could replace skilled, productive, (but, yes, quite >expensive) professionals is, of course, utter nonsense (what >else we could expect from MongoDB?).

The claim isn't that the service replaces the skilled, productive and expensive folks entirely, those professionals are still needed. They just work for the service provider.

The business entity that creates the actual product can focus on just that, and not complicated DBA tasks. It's a developers world. ;-).

Also, it's not a MongoDB centric concept. Rackspace and Amazon have multiple data products now, with more coming, and they all fall under this concept in my mind.