Can anyone provide a comparative analysis between these two databases
that are halfway objective?

I have found one study:

http://www.theedison.com/index.php/articles/170

Has anyone read this study and/or have any comments?

Replication and Clustering are important.

I attended one meeting where a Project Manager stated that MS SQL
server is faster and requires less people to manage thereby saving on
manageability costs.......I almost fell out of my chair.....

Thanks
Mr. Bob