No.

When I contacted the ORACLE rep. and got a ORACLE 8.03 for 30 day free evaluation and found it to be very stable. I felt their was no reason to continue with MS SQL. I also felt through my rough testing that MS SQL 6.5 is not as scalable as ORACLE and slower at command processing. My company could have gotten by with MS SQL, but in the long term I would have been guessing if MS SQL could keep up with the usage requirements as additional demands were placed on it.

We priced ORACLE several years ago and I was SHOCK by the current price. They are pricing it the same as MS SQL at approx. $236 per user. That was major factor for us. We run ORACLE and windows NT. ORACLE is out selling MS SQL on windows NT. That should tell you something about MS SQL.

I would note that the learning curve is greater on ORACLE that MS SQL. I was able to get MS SQL up and running in less time than ORACLE.

Also if the web is where you are going I found ORACLE better. They have a web server that is just as good and MS IIS with one additional feature. Direct access to stored procedures on the server. I have developed server stored procedures that takes web pass parameters. A resulting html page is built by oracle server and passed back to the browers. The speed is awsome and I have one stop shopping for web and database development.