>>I enjoyed my time in the large scale world but just the thought of one of those pointless meetings makes me shudder now.

LOL. My current experience is that even the largest customer shrugs over precise software origin as long as it delivers. In fact we shelved one ultra cool Jquery web option because it was too difficult to get individual browser instances to behave like modal fat client windows communicating with each other. We found a way- but a security guru warned that one day it would be a hack vector and MS would close it off, breaking our app without warning. The $B customer refused the risk and that was that.