>Funny that this applies mostly to programmers. Network Admin have more job security (since it's hardware, plus few easy software).
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>Chuck
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>>Folks should be thinking not only of being mutli-tool talented, but multi-platform talented. The 'other' platform is gaining ground FAST!

Not really. I net admin tht restricts their toolset to one platform or one backend is asking for pasture. However, you are right in one regard... the TCP/IP protocol is the same regardless of OS platform and much knowledge from one will be useful in the other. Ever set up a Linux server? Samba?