In addition to the NoSQL camp, it seems that a new method to replace tier 3 prog...

In addition to the NoSQL camp, it seems that a new method to replace tier 3 programming is CouchDB. Specifically, the CouchApp.org that was posted yesterday on HN. The CouchApp "can be served directly to the browser from CouchDB, without any other software in the stack".

http://couchapp.org/page/what-is-couchapp http://couchdb.apache.org/