I firmly believe that your team should choose the right tool for the job, factoring in what the team is comfortable with. I would never tell a room of open sour

I firmly believe that your team should choose the right tool for the job, factoring in what the team is comfortable with. I would never tell a room of open source coders that they had to use .NET, and I sure wouldn't want to make the .NET folks learn anything new, either. ;) Humour aside, the language of your question ("non-MS" and "some open-source language") implies that the decision to use anything except Microsoft stuff is the Other, and I just don't think that's a realistic baseline. There's a world of excellent tools for different jobs, and we are so lucky because the cream gets to the top a lot faster now. http://github.com/languages http://github.com/languages We're not building on WebObjects and you're not working with VB.NET, either.