re: Are Rules Really a Thing of the Past?

This is not really to the point but it has some connection. In my company they decided not to implement any kind of business rules on the database tier anymore, except for data types, not null constraints and unique constraints. This is because they want to centralize all business logic in one place (the middle/business tier that is). That means no more rules, triggers, check constraints, stored procedures/functions. The only thing we use are tables and views.

What's your view on this?