We just transitioned a customer off of MT onto some cheap dedicated servers with Amazon S3 storage and not only did their hosting costs go down, the performance went up dramatically.
In the business parlance of today, my stakeholder expectations were not aligned with their soup to nuts value proposition.
They better think of an interim solution, because databases with schemas are not going away for quite a while, even if they are eventually going to be replaced by giant single key hash tables like everyone is clamoring about these days.
In the business parlance of today, my stakeholder expectations were not aligned with their soup to nuts value proposition.