Yet Another DBA (4/1/2015)
Hmmm, I think "DevOps" is one of those terms that has different meanings for people. To me its where Developers have access to the live environment to release code, all with managements permission.
I'm not sure that's Devops as I've seen most of the people pioneering the work in this area describe it. That's somewhat chaos.
It's not that developers can't act as operations people, but they should be using the tools, processes, and techniques proven to ensure stability and reliability for operations people, along with the programming and automation that developers often build.