1996-10-04 - Did Sun get a sweetheart deal?

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From: Ernest Hua <hua@chromatic.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Message Hash: 5a190edb56a781c22c2f20472b1176ef7a7714c49d1d4de525f2c54f91030f94
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UTC Datetime: 1996-10-04 03:16:44 UTC
Raw Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 11:16:44 +0800

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From: Ernest Hua <hua@chromatic.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 11:16:44 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Did Sun get a sweetheart deal?
Message-ID: <199610040001.RAA15595@ohio.chromatic.com>
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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.

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• 1996-10-04 (Fri, 4 Oct 1996 11:16:44 +0800) - Did Sun get a sweetheart deal? - Ernest Hua <hua@chromatic.com>
  • 1996-10-04 (Fri, 4 Oct 1996 12:39:54 +0800) - Re: Did Sun get a sweetheart deal? - Eric Murray <ericm@lne.com>
    • 1996-10-04 (Fri, 4 Oct 1996 19:57:49 +0800) - Re: Did Sun get a sweetheart deal? - Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>
    • 1996-10-05 (Sat, 5 Oct 1996 09:36:31 +0800) - Re: Did Sun get a sweetheart deal? - “Timothy C. May” <tcmay@got.net>
  • 1996-10-04 (Fri, 4 Oct 1996 12:45:05 +0800) - Re: Did Sun get a sweetheart deal? - “Timothy C. May” <tcmay@got.net>
  • 1996-10-04 (Fri, 4 Oct 1996 21:03:55 +0800) - Re: Did Sun get a sweetheart deal? - Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
    • 1996-10-04 (Fri, 4 Oct 1996 16:42:45 +0800) - Re: Did Sun get a sweetheart deal? - snow <snow@smoke.suba.com>