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Eh, I think there is an expense angle to that as well. I can get pretty good unix people for cheap, if I'm willing to take someone with poor communication skills. I can get someone with good communication skills for cheap if I'm willing to take someone with poor technical skills. Now, some of this can be solved by training, and some of it can be solved by making different people work together, but not all of it.

There are people who really are good at everything; but those people are as useful as they are rare, which makes them expensive. Usually, if you want a generalist, you are right, you take a skill hit vs. paying the same money to a specialist with large weaknesses in other areas.