Like this article, Steve. For my own benefit, what do you mean by POC? I've looked it up online and found lots of possible explanations for that TLA.
I definitely think I'm in the camp that likes to check out new things. Its fun to peer over the fence. Especially if you're in a situation which doesn't satisfy or challenge. And it seems like the development world changes very rapidly. I heard someone once joke about the rapid change in web development frameworks by saying of one of the newer ones, "Oh, that's so 5 picoseconds ago." I don't know why the database world moves slower.
Proof of Concept. A prototype that does something, but is meant to be tossed.