What the fuck are they doing with the database?...

...though I suspect the proper answer is 'nothing'.

didn't they just fire all the smart people?

If you ask me, they had very, very few smart, or even reasonable people to begin with.

And yes, chances are they all were in the firing list.

What everyone doesn't seem to realize is that M Linden is going back to Philip's original vision, and that isn't going to work either.

Because what everybody built has nothing to do with it.