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To: Sam who wrote (26794)4/28/1999 8:32:00 PM
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Utah Company Sues Microsoft

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq:MSFT - news) executives sought to block competitor Novell Inc. (Nasdaq:NOVL - news) from pursuing accounts with the Mormon church and Brigham Young University, according to evidence filed in federal court Wednesday.

Caldera Inc., an offshoot of Novell, is suing Microsoft Corp., for as much as $1.6 billion, claiming the software giant set out to destroy public demand for DR-DOS, an operating system that competed against Microsoft's MS-DOS. Both enable personal computers to perform basic functions.

Microsoft, however, claims DR-DOS was a flawed product and Novell provided its users with shoddy technical support.

Orem-based Caldera was formed by former Novell chairman Ray Noorda, who acquired DR-DOS before leaving the company and filing a lawsuit against Microsoft in July 1996. The company included in its court filings correspondence it says provides evidence of Microsoft's quest to ''lock up'' accounts of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Microsoft spokesman Jim Cullinan acknowledged Wednesday that the religious group is a ''large customer of great interest to any company trying to sell enterprise software. It is of great significance in Salt Lake and the community.''

But Cullinan claimed Caldera's filings use out-of-context snippets to unfairly portray Microsoft's efforts.

Papers filed this week are aimed at defining the scope of claims that will be allowed at a January 2000 trial. Microsoft has asked for summary dismissal on a number of Caldera's claims.

Judge Dee Benson is considering media requests to release about 60 sealed documents in the case and to make public further documents filed in the case unless they contain trade secrets.  

dailynews.yahoo.com
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