[AlanSC]

ha, ha, ha.

you really think the network guy slot is more important and harder to fill than developers and PM's?

on our project with 27 technical slots, there is only one network slot because that is all that is needed and there was a ton of them available because the tech schools keep pumping them out every six to nine months.

a trained developer who can actually perform, they are worth the money. And here is the dirty secret network people don't want anyone else to know - in hard times, the developers can always double duty as network engineers but the network engineers can rarely ever step up and design and code applications.

developers a dime a dozen? only if they don't know what they are doing. network people (regardless of which flavor) those are the dime a dozen slots.

pm's - I'll give you this one but maybe 2 for 1 instead of a dime a dozen since there are some who know what they are doing and some who really do nothing but generate busy work.

[JNL]

ROTFLMAO

Spoken like a true developer. Good network guys (not guys with their technical papers from a cracker jack box) are far from a dime a dozen. Sure you can take your MCSE's and your Linux Gurus but I'd put them up against an experienced Big Iron network guy any day.

As for a developer doing real network adsministration don't make me laugh. Most developers couldn't tell you what a TCP/IP stack is to save their life. Ask a developer to subnet a network and they pee their panties. Real men do mainframes, girls type.