technical yes, but versitile as well
Your assertion is true Steven. Especially for the small to mid sized businesses. I'd even say that it's important at the mega corporation level to a large degree.
The problem comes when that leader's entire technical background and loyalty is to a single vendor's framework or tools. I shudder to recall how many failed projects I've seen where the decision was made to - "implement a solution with (fill in the blank) 's framework or compiler or tool set of whatever - before the requirements (both present and visualized future) were even documented. The tool should not drive the solution. Never. Ever. That's the core problem I've seen after many years of reviving multi-million dollar monstrosities which demo'ed well and then failed under real world loads and conditions.
Breadth of technical experience is essential, even if the current resume builder job has one locked into a preordained framework.
