database recommendation?

"farcry_n00b (sent by Nabble.com)" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.cms.farcry.user
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I have an open question for the FarCry community as a newbie setting up his
first FarCry environment which will (hopefully) eventually see production
use...

Our platform is Windows 2003, which is a choice beyond the scope of my role. 
Pretty much everything that runs on our web server, however, is left up to
me (though our IT guys seem to feel much more comfortable with IIS than
Apache, just because they're all Microsoft shop type guys).

So, given an 2003/IIS6 platform to build on, and presuming CFMX 7.0.2 (and
hopefully later Scorpio), what database would an experienced FarCry
developer pick and why?  This machine is multiprocessor and reasonably
beefy, and will be a standalone web stack and not have other
responsibilities.

I am tempted to say MySQL just because personally I'm very experienced with
it, and obviously the low cost is attractive.  Similarly low cost however is
Microsoft SQL Server Express, which I'm currently moving our legacy web site
to (from Access, eww).  Budget to purchase a more expensive RDBMS is also
within my reach, but I haven't investigated any with much vigor because we
are fairly low traffic (2-3 pages a second at absolute peak loads).

Since this community seems so great about support, I'd like to go with a DB
that lots of other FarCry users (and perhaps developers) prefer so that when
I have issues there will be a good chance someone else knows the solution...

Thanks in advance for any sage advice!
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