A much more modest $15m over three years has been won by Sun Microsystems Inc, Mountain View, California from Nippon Steel Corp of Tokyo. The steel company will market NSSUN workstations, based on the Sun-3 M with its won structural analysis, statistical analysis, computer-aided design, manufacturing and engineering, artificial intelligence and factory automation applications. Nippon Steel will also market Sun workstations with third party software, and additionally use them in-house for research and development.