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.
Yep, we'd go back and forth on this topic all day I think.
And yes, just as, "spoken as a true developer" I can see the reverse in your reply.
But you go right on and set up the network there big iron. Once you are done, then the real work begins (which is usually what pays the bills year after year and long after the big iron men do their little thing).