RS/6000 vs. HP9000 for SAP

We are planning to implement the SAP system (Enterprise Resources Planning) in our manufacturing plants and we are in the process of evaluating the hardware configuration. There will be 300 concurrent users, and we'll use Oracle for the databases. For some reasons (too long to explain here), we narrowed our choice down to two systems: IBM RS/6000 (AIX) and Hewlett Packard HP9000 (HP-UX).

I have always been using Intel-based PC servers (running NT) and have never used any of these two systems. SAP representatives in my country gave us some advices, but I wonder if their advices were very objective as they may have recommended *their* preferred vender, not necessarily the most suitable one for us.

Therefore, I would like to hear from you the pros and the cons of these two systems in term of performance, ease of use, reliability, availability, integration with SAP, upgradability (for future expansion), etc. I would particularly appreciate to hear the opinions from people who have SAP experience on both systems.

Also, I shall be very grateful if someone could tell me where I could find comparisons between RS/6000 and HP9000 on the net.

Thank you for your assistance.
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