> (read: MS SQL DBAs where we used Linux/FreeBSD) Just my opinion; as an aside. ANY engineer worth his or her salt, should be able to pivot from one to anothe

> (read: MS SQL DBAs where we used Linux/FreeBSD) Just my opinion; as an aside. ANY engineer worth his or her salt, should be able to pivot from one to another. This is probably THE primary skill an engineer should have. Industry hiring practices mostly disqualify candidates based on this type of thing, and it's a terrible practice, and it leads to good qualified engineers getting pigeonholed into a skills-dead-end. Most of the basic computer skills are applicable across all platforms. If they want to specialize in some skill set that you as an employer do not utilize, then they won't apply anyway. So I'm saying; hire engineers who could use some professional development.