New York-based hedge fund Elliott Associates L.P. in a letter to Novell‘s board of directors dated March 2 offered to purchase the infrastructure software company for a cash price of $5.75 per share, or $1 billion net of the cash on the company’s books. Elliott Associates at the time said it already owned 8.5 percent of Novell and wanted to take the company private for $2 billion.

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