a project to standardize script writing in my environment

[s99999999s2003 at yahoo.com]

hi
in my environment, besides shell scripts written for sys admin tasks,
there are shell scripts that call java programs which in turn will do
various processing like connecting to databases and doing manipulation
of data. My programmers all know only Java and so this is how the java
programs come about. Also, some scripts were written in Perl by some
admins who left, and successors have difficulty grasping perl syntax
and how it works.
My intention is to replace these scripts and java programs to python
scripts, and in future, any processing of text or running queries to
databases will be written in python using relevant modules.  Browsing
the clp  newsgroup on the advantages and comparisons of shell,perl,java
and of course python,  as the language of choice for writing scripts, i
chose python as i think it has many benefits, like readability etc
etc...
Now i am preparing to write a recommendation to my boss for "endorsing"
python as the scripting language of choice. Is it a project worth doing
at least for my environment? What are the things that i should consider
if i were to go ahead?
thanks