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I realize it is popular these days to hate on Mongo, but the FUD is getting a bit old.

really, the MongoDB haters are pathological at this point. 10gen must have really pissed off the HN crowd early on (I missed that cycle) but today, in the real world, mongo is a useful tool for what it does best. It's time to move on from early impressions and angst about their hype fails, and give them a few crumbs of credit for being the defacto leader in a new space, and working through the inevitable rough patches.

I don't think you understand how badly 10gen overmarketed Mongo as something that it isn't. I personally believe the people at 10gen deserve legal repercussions (I expect we'll see this in the coming years), even incarceration for the pure lies they spouted that cost companies so much. MongoDB is a trojan horse, a trap, completely incapable of serving any real-world need. If someone thinks MongoDB is working from them, they just don't realize yet how it's subtly broken.

Sorry have you just woken up and missed the last 20 years ?

Almost every single IT company exaggerates claims, says their product is "the best" and "amazing" and suitable for every use case under the sun. Oracle did it. Microsoft did it. Mongo did it. And thousands of companies in the future will do it in the future. It's called Marketing.

And I think you should speak to all these customers (http://www.mongodb.com/who-uses-mongodb) and tell them they don't serve any real world need. I would imagine a few would ask the same question of you.

I think "ORGANIZATIONS CREATING APPLICATIONS NEVER BEFORE POSSIBLE" about sums it up on their "who uses" page... There's nothing in particular that mongo does better than it's competitors.

Thanks for making my case for me. This is possibly one of the most ridiculous replies ever posted to this forum.

The day we start jailing people for their marketing hype is... well, it wouldn't be a good day.

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