Sure, you can bring in Young Turks with all sorts of qualifications; They can have an MCTS, MCITP, Oracle OCA/OCP, CCNA, RHCE, CISSP, CET, CWNA, LPI, SCJP, CIW, MOS, PM, or an ABCDEFGHIJK but, seriously, what do they know?

On the other hand, what many Sliver Surfers have that the Young Turks don't have is "insight"; that almost magical ability to see the architecture of systems and processes and how they relate to business along with their opportunities and flaws.

Most of the young 'uns take one look at an existing infrastructure and the first thing that occurs to them is to tear it all down and start again. The Sliver Surfers are different; they "grok" that there's a working machine to be dealt with and that when you interfere with something in the enterprise world that is functional, no matter what problems it may have, you risk business "meltdown."

Nope, the Young Turks most often want to rebuild from the ground up rather than face the realities of business which are, essentially, that money has been invested and instituting wholesale change is equivalent to tearing the business apart. If they were dealing with a car this would be like replacing the engine when what you're trying to do is fill the tank.

One of the things I know from some of my Silver Surfer IT friends is that this economy hasn't been kind to them. These are guys who have incredible technical abilities and if they haven't architected it, they coded it, and if they didn't do that, they most likely project managed it.