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Novell Soars on Takeover Offer

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Paul Shread
Mar 3, 2010

[ Thanks to Paul
for this link. ]

“Add Novell (NASDAQ: NOVL) shareholders to the list of
those who have figured out how to earn money from open source
technologies.

“Novell shares soared 28 percent in after-hours trading today
after institutional stockholder Elliott Associates offered to
purchase the entire company for $5.75 a share in cash, or $1
billion.”


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Paul Shread

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