Perl or .Net (Score 1)

At the perl job, you said you'd have some control over the projects - will this give you the opportunity to bring in PHP, Ajax, LAMP, app servers, glassfish, tomcat, java, javascript, python, ruby, etc., etc? People that are telling you that perl is dead end may be right about the perl, but if it's a linux shop, you can really branch out into a lot of these other technologies that will really make your work shine, will be much more fun than .Net and will be marketable in a lot more places in the future.