Is this true?
orev: True.  While many programmers seem to think they can also do server stuff, as a 15 year veteran "server guy", I can say that I've rarely, if ever, seen a programmer who makes a good server guy.  The things you need to focus on are just too different.Programmers tend to focus on the very small details and seem to only look at the short term question of "if something is possible to accomplish".  A server guy needs to think about the big-picture, with a focus on not only if something is possible, but the impact of a particular approach on the rest of the infrastructure and the long-term maintenance cost of any given action.