What types of businesses — perhaps the industries — do the majority of your applicants come from? I'm asking because, from my limited experience, it seems that

What types of businesses — perhaps the industries — do the majority of your applicants come from? I'm asking because, from my limited experience, it seems that many small and medium sized businesses that are NOT in the IT field are afraid of testing newer tech. The justifications I've been given for this stance are: 1. Newer tech introduces new problems, and increases the scope of working knowledge 2. Adopting new practices requires the business to attempt to hire for that skill in the future 3. Present managers, whose experience stemmed from working in a sysadmin role, do not have the working knowledge and capability to understand/learn new practices With that, do a lot of applicants seem to come with a basic/old background of just Windows (or the like) experience? It's hard to try and get any of your mentioned requirements running in these businesses. What my friends and I've encountered is a big resistance to the command-line (Powershell or Bash), learning how Linux systems are configured, or anything that doesn't come with a large support contract. If yourself or anyone on HN has tips or anecdotes on how to introduce changes — gradually and slowly AND given that it could help the business — I would LOVE to read them! My biggest goal is to reduce operating and capital costs for systems that are not accounted for contributing directly to increasing the company's revenue (at least when you don't control that calculation, anyway).