I'm using Sharepoint2003 to build a central issues repository for
several groups. While most groups enter very few issues, one of the
groups has thousands of new issues each year with dozens of thousands
that we need to migrate in from the past. My question - is Sharepoint
just the wrong tool to use here - based on the size of the data? I've
heard that as you approach a list of 2000+, searching over it begins to
get tedious. I realize there are better tools - actually we were using
Quickbase before, but licensing is too expensive. We need something
that can handle simple issues management, as well as change control
functionality.

is there a better way to handle this? Is there a better tool?