I more often see the opposite problem in CS academia. People care too much about what tool is best for a job, and as a result nothing is easily interoperable. One grad student writes stuff in Haskell, another one uses OCaml, a third does everything in Python, a fourth uses Common Lisp, and you're lucky if a fifth doesn't use his custom, self-maintained Scheme dialect that he swears is perfectly adapted to the job.
I'm not a big Matlab fan, but I do sometimes envy the areas where there's a default environment everything is expected to plug in to, whether it's Matlab or R or something else (Python, increasingly).
Are you in CS, by chance? ;-) I think the frequency of people who can even comprehend haskell drops off significantly once you walk over to the chemistry building.
That said, I'm not against a uniform environment; there are definitely advantages to having everyone on the same platform. I would just prefer we all piled into a greyhound bus instead of a retrofitted rail carriage powered by a pack of dogs.
I'm not a big Matlab fan, but I do sometimes envy the areas where there's a default environment everything is expected to plug in to, whether it's Matlab or R or something else (Python, increasingly).