Faster to Market?

• How much time is spent converting data from one format to another, getting quoting wrong (& or \ today?), running into format limits, and generally messing about?
• How much time is spent in information plumbing, hooking applications together that speak different languages, writing a Perl:DBI dumper or a PHP or ASP or JSP interface?
• How many projects need PHP, Perl, Python, C, C++, Java, HTML, JavaScript, SQL, shell, XML, XSLT, XZBL3, etc.? You have multiple teams talking to each other, or one very smart and utterly indispensible programmer.