Your 1st sentence could have given a condescending vibe :)

That's what I suspected after. I did not mean to be condescending though.

Completely agree with you Morgan Stanley is a bank not a tech firm and it falls under various fed laws which slows your pace of development like raising a ticket to login into a dev database or a dev cant push his own code into prod etc.The aim is to audit everything and be risk averse. Try getting any open source software inside the firm within 6 months I would not be surprised if he quit in an year or so.

SOX is a pain but its not quite as bad as you make it seem and MS is a heavy user of OS software(and heavy contributor back to a few projects).

i like this book http://joyofclojure.com/