When I was there, the MIS director figured the C++ effort would flame out in a few months, and then he could let me loose to write it all in Perl.

He has no faith in the group doing the C++. And there are MANY more project going on, not just the one I was working on.

He has a new hire, an old buddy, who is a VB person.

Since he trusts her to pull his ass out of the fire, something tells me he blessed her choice and told everyone else that is the direction.

Hehe.