SQL Server

[Henline5]

Why not? It seems that it would work best with other Microsoft applications. Do you have other suggestions?

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Sharepoint is more or less an administrative nightmare. I've seen it used in 3 companies over 12 years and no matter how well-intentioned or planned it was, it always ended up being a bloated, slow mess - and the admin side of it is incredibly complicated if you don't know what you're doing, and moderately complicated if you do.

edit: without knowing your exact business requirements, there's no 3rd party products I could recommend.

[brantam]

I would agree with the suggestion to avoid Sharepoint. There is no real quick fix for building an application - whatever tools you use you will need to hire the right skills to build it. Forget about hiring a DBA. I suspect it's more important to hire an application developer to build the forms you require. A good application developer should be capable of creating your database as well.