I used to work with that type. Totally against anything that was not Microsoft. If you wanted to do Java, they would refuse to support you. If you wanted Javascript or JScript, you'd better give them a good reason why VBScrpt couldn't do the same things. In some cases we had to use Javascript/JScript because the DHTML in VBScript was lacking.

They are so strict that they even disallow Visual C++ and Visual J++ because it is not Visual BASIC, and nobody else in the firm would be able to support it if you are gone (got fired, downsized, you quit, etc.)

Those types are almost as bad as the PHBs that push for an MS-Only solution.