Thanks for the correction. You're right, and I can't tell you either, so I shouldn't really argue.
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FWIW, if he actually had written "just throw more money at it to make it go faster", I would understand your more negative opinion. :-)
I mean how does he know it's not "thousands of RPC calls" -- he spent six years and never got it to perform, so he doesn't know. "You're wrong!" ? Based on what?
If I worked for six years on something and it still didn't work and someone came in and said it's "x", I would say, "I'm excited to see that data because I really want to fix this." I think I'm more upset at his attitude than anything.
In all honesty, I think what he meant was "I spent six years and failed to fix something that is fixable, and then outside consultants came in a clearly found clear problems in a couple weeks, and now I'm humiliated," but he has too big of an ego for that.
The guy's job was not specifically performance; he didn't fail at anything. Product managers drive roadmaps so even if you know there's been a performance problem for years, you might not get to invest time in fixing it. That's exactly what Eric was advocating if you read the whole thread.