EP, lt me remind you SAP benchmarks:
IBM eServer xSeries 440 Model 8687-3RX, 8-way SMP, Intel Xeon MP 2.0 GHz 690
Opteron 1.6 GHz 4-way 600
hp rx5670, 4-way SMP, Itanium II, 1 GHz 600
Sun-Fire V880, 8-way SMP, UltraSPARC III, 900 MHz, 8 MB L2 cache 600
SUN Ultra Sparc ES 6000 24-way SMP, 167 MHz 600
IBM eServer xSeries Model 440, 8-way SMP, Pentium Xeon 1.6 GHz, 1 MB L3 cache 520
HP server rx5670, 4-way SMP, Itanium 2/ 1 GHz, 3 MB L3 cache 470
hp ProLiant Model DL580 G2, 4-processors, Xeon MP 1.6 GHz, 1 MB L3 cache 356
IBM eServer xSeries Model 440, 4-way SMP, Pentium Xeon 1.6 GHz, 1 MB L3 cache 312
What will you say?