So many wtf's in this.
"The company made the move in order to lower costs and improve flexibility for the social network"
"Untangling the site from dependence on specific OS and database versions"
"The tough part is that the competent employees essentially engineered themselves out of a job. St. John said he appreciated their efforts."
I sure hope Hi5's engineers saw this coming when they brought on Alex St. John, "a former Microsoft evangelist," as CEO in late 2009.