I learned Haskell instead of OCaml in part because of this. Yeah, it probably wasn't that important, it was an emotional decision, and it wasn't "fair" to OCaml. But whatever it was or wasn't, I learned Haskell instead of OCaml.

Also, if I read between the lines correctly, in your scenerio it's management who is interested in OCaml and the developers want to use something else? Wonder if that has ever actually happened?