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To: Art Bechhoefer who wrote (23674)	11/24/1999 7:31:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Art, I don't know how much better off Microsoft would be with a mediated settlement. As I noted here a couple weeks ago in #23493 (http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=11846289), the Caldera suit looks to be going to trial soon, and Microsoft, in its usual brilliant display of legal acumen, seems to have gone out of its way to antagonize that judge too. This CNet article says it's likely to go to trial in Jan/Feb: news.cnet.com. The Caldera suit will most likely go forward regardless of the outcome of the DoJ action, and while DoJ might end up settling for "conduct remedies", Caldera will be out for blood and money. Plus, the Caldera suit goes more to monopoly establishment than the "monopoly maintenance" aspects of the current action. Plus, Microsoft doesn't have the sympathetic DC circuit in the appeals path there. We'll see, it should make for more news during the quite mediation period, anyway. Cheers, Dan.