Timing for the argument is very crucial. Your arguments for adopting a new language will only work when other employees and your BOSS see your solution run, and

Timing for the argument is very crucial. Your arguments for adopting a new language will only work when other employees and your BOSS see your solution run, and that at the correct time, when most of the people are not satisfied with the current solution. If you are successful in demonstrating the pros and importantly cons and other people support your decision, then there is 1% chance that your boss will try! I don't remember what happened clearly but I am able to recount one instant.. My father is a pro C# guru. His organization was having hard time investing in a proprietary library. High costs had him thinking. I suggested him to use a python based open source library. He asked me to mind my own business and not to meddle in his affairs. That night when I came to his room to good night, he was sitting reading the python documentation!