Did Sun get a sweetheart deal?

[Ernest Hua <hua@chromatic.com>]

So why did Sun cave in?

Ern

-------- From San Jose Mercury: "Good Morning Silicon Valley"

NASA has its day in the Sun

  Sun Microsystems Inc. said Wednesday it received two contracts from
  NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center worth a total of $100 million. The
  Mountain View-based company said the pact calls for software
  development and the design about 34,000 computer-aided engineering
  and design workstations. NASA will use the workstations to design
  integrated circuits.