The environment:

Oracle 8i/9i on Solaris

Lots of PL/SQL, lots of C++ (over a million lines between the two), some Java (soon to be more), and some Perl.

People use everything from vi to VS there. 21" monitors are the rule, and I've seen a number of 2-CPU 1.4Ghz machines. I'm the first Emacs user, though. :-D

I'll be sharing an office with the Chief Software Architect and another developer.

The first day was godawful boring. Reading system docs, books about bonds, etc. Today was headed that direction, but the CIO came by with a developer who needed help with a servlet and some DHTML programming, so I spent the afternoon doing that.