I'm sorry this is how the article came across to you. Given similar sentiments from others on this thread I'll see if I can amend it to make it more clear.
When our CTO came onboard I meant to say that he gave a hard look at our development process, not so much the technology stack itself. I agree it's confusing since the post is about Technology Change and I'm probably confusing the point further by mentioning both the earlier process transition when our CTO came onboard and then the later Scala technology change.
Thanks for your feedback.
EDIT: I've updated my post to elaborate on why a new CTO was brought into the organization.
Why not change dev methodologies while adopting F# to have a proper modern language? Seems like it'd make migration a far easier task, if you don't really need all of Scala's type system.
When our CTO came onboard I meant to say that he gave a hard look at our development process, not so much the technology stack itself. I agree it's confusing since the post is about Technology Change and I'm probably confusing the point further by mentioning both the earlier process transition when our CTO came onboard and then the later Scala technology change.
Thanks for your feedback.
EDIT: I've updated my post to elaborate on why a new CTO was brought into the organization.