Agreed. Good developers are good developers. The same traits that make someone successful on one platform are identical to what will make them successful on ano

Agreed. Good developers are good developers. The same traits that make someone successful on one platform are identical to what will make them successful on another. If you pay more for certain training backgrounds, you're paying only for the few weeks/months required for a good dev to come up to speed on the new technology. The company in the article probably spent tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars more than they needed to for virtually no gain, unless those few weeks/months made a critical time-to-market difference.