I'd have to say enlisted. At a previous employer we were looking at new technologies in an effort to replace a COBOL/ISAM based application (that application is still in use today, by the way, and is unchanged). We were looking at Borland InterBase (would run on SCO Unix) and MS SQL Server 6.5 (Windows of course) and using a VB6 front end.

MS SQL Server won out, not because it was better than InterBase but because it was easier to code against with VB6. Although we never developed a replacement for the COBOL application, SQL Server became a vital piece of the overall application framework. Over time we eventually downloaded all the data from the ISAM databases on a nightly basis and used SQL Server for reporting and integrating with other systems in the organization.

I took on the database part of the system, and for a while also helped with the hardware and OS, but that quickly went away under a couple of reorganizations.

I have never looked back having worked with SQL Server now for over 15 years.