More than just $20 million
The article suggests that the $20 million was sufficient to settle the spat between Sun and Microsoft about Java. However, Sun filed an antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft in 2002 for using Windows to undermine Java. This was resolved in April 2004 to the tune of $700 million! At the same time, Microsoft and Sun signed a $900 million licensing deal.
See: http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2004-04/sunflash.20040402.3.xml
Biting the hand that feeds IT
