Going back to uni to study computers

whats IIS?

Intelligent Information Systems.

Think of things like the Semantic web and inferring additional meaning from the meta data. Computational intelligence for mining this new meta data, and then visualisation and surfacing techniques.

Hey andyp & VelocityBoy and all other IT workers,

May I recap and say that it is easy to find a job that pays well or is fullfilling but hard to find both?

Also, is it a good idea to focus on open source languages & technologies? I mean, Java has been GPL'd recently. I really like the vibe of it and I kinda feel that Microsoft is Satan itself (sorry VB) but have heard very good things about C#.NET too.

Can I get away with not doing the Microsoft stuff?

You should always try and do both. Pick Java and C# and understand the differences. I'd personally say picking Java and a purely functional language would be more beneficial to you.

And yes I work with MS stuff. But I also run this server and work with FOSS stuff. And my prior work has been with Java, TCL, PERL. The languages you work with come and go, don't become entrenched with any.