Im very grateful to the Open Source community for all they bring, what would I do without Python on my N900?

It's funny you mention this, as Ive spent all day (UK time) supporting and integrating adapters between two data centres (for services running on Sun Solaris and Wintel) with .Net frameworks, MSMQ, and Tibco. The client is among the very largest of the US financial companies.

Unfortunately my mate is on the client's Unix team (outsourced), he received notice yesterday that the team was cutting down to bare bones. Today the Unix team was actually disbanded, with immediate effect, and he's trying to get into another team at work. It may be work rumours, but he believes that the Solaris servers will be going and he's been advised there will be a lot of opportunities coming along for .Net in the very near future.

I dont know anything outside where I work, but certainly from my own current experience doesn't really align. Not that Im arguing with you, I just thought Id mention it

Edit: I should also say, I have requested Firefox for my development machine but it's not on an approved list. Neither is Eclipse, nor who knows how many other open source projects. All US financial companies are maybe not the open source Utopia that we'd like