Developing for the future - SQL*Server

[Guy Werry]

We've recently been discussing future development.  Our current Powerhouse /
HP-Ux environment may not be the proper platform for the development being
looked at: long story, don't know if I can get into specifics publically.

So, the discussion has been about doing something in MS Access (user's
idea).  We (I.T. folks) don't like this because of scalability issues,
learning curves, etc.  An alternative idea was MS SQL*Server, which is a
real database.  

What to develop in was the next question.  From some of the discussions that
I've seen on this list in the last while, it looks like Axiant or PH Web on
top of SQL*Server is working well for people.  Is this the case?

One of our consideration is that we have Powerhouse expertise; some Oracle
Forms/SQL experience also, but I don't know what the costs would be like for
the tools and I'm sure that the database admin / purchase costs would be
much better with SQL*Server.

Whaddya think?

Guy Werry.