Did Sun get a sweetheart deal?

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.