When it comes to the management types, it has been my experience that they have 4 basic concerns when it comes to adopting a different/new technology:

1) cost - implementation, converting legacy code, etc.
2) realiability - it is robust, proven, etc?
3) security
4) support - what support structures exist and how reliable are they?

If you can make your arguments in terms of these concerns and demonstrate that activePerl is better than ASP, then you will probably have a winner.

--david