Novell, Inc. (pronounced /noʊˈvɛl/; NASDAQ: NOVL) is a multinational software and services corporation headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts. The company specializes in enterprise operating systems, such as SUSE Linux Enterprise and Novell NetWare; identity, security, and systems management solutions; and collaboration solutions, such as Novell Groupwise and Novell Pulse.
Novell was instrumental in making the Utah Valley a focus for technology and software development. Novell technology contributed to the emergence of local area networks, which displaced the dominant mainframe computing model and changed computing worldwide. Today, a primary focus of the company is on developing open source software for enterprise clients.
Good people are hard to find. It's difficult to find the talent you need at the cost that you can afford. In many cases, small businesses choose to develop the skills of their existing team, including the principals of the business. Finding good training is time consuming and expensive. In addition to the cost of training, small businesses also invest the cost of wages and the lost productivity associated with having team members attend training seminars.
Last Minute Training can help your small business develop the skills of your team at a reasonable price. Our service helps find the training you need and our participant driven vendor feedback system lets you see what other members think about our training vendors and their seminars.
responsibilities include: Customer relationship, Manpower planning, Staffing, Leading and Controlling.
• Recruitment: Understand job and profile requirements, resource planning, offer negotiation and finalization of selected candidates
• Training: Identification of current skill levels and continuous up gradation of competencies. Measurement of effectiveness of training programs
• Employee retention and motivation programs, employee communication, rewards and recognition schemes, organization development initiatives and culture building
• Employee counseling in high-pressure works situations
• Managing Employee Relations, Disciplinary procedures & Counseling of employees Conducting Employee Satisfaction surveys and devise action plan based on Performance management .
• Salary reviews & Performance Management System
• Organizational Development, Award/ Reward System.
• Accountable for all deliverables including new system plans, solutions, maintenance and service of installed solutions. Provide technical leadership and project management for the Team Leader to improve work performance of team members.
• Responsible for directing the development of company market, to monitor the development of business plans, competitive activity, and identifies customer needs. Interfaces with account development. Provides budget planning and staff/resources for management expertise. Determines operational objectives and assignments for subordinate units. Establish strategic plans and objectives. Contribute as a team member to the strategic examination and business plan development.
• Develops and executes marketing plans and programs both short and long range to ensure the profit growth and expansion of company products and/or services.
Novell appears to be doing its best in caring for these employees, offering several months of severance pay, apparently based on the number of years with the company, among other factors.
For those remaining employed there, Novell announced this week that it would be suspending 401(k) matching contributions, which followed on the heels of its formal filing on Monday, to that effect, with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Novell has spent the past few years attempting to reinvent itself as a Linux company, and it has managed to string together several quarters with strong earnings in its Linux business on the back of its controversial partnership with Microsoft. The company has struggled to compete effectively with Linux-leader Red Hat.
On November 2, a Novell PR representative contacted me to arrange a conversation with CEO Ron Hovsepian about Novell's "new focus in its strategic direction."
Whether this means more or less open source is not yet clear. It is clear, however, that Novell needs to focus more on top-line revenue growth, and not merely ways to cut costs. Until Novell learns to grow business, and not simply reduce expenses, its employees are going to remain all-too-familiar with layoffs.
Novell is currently negotiating with SilverStream to enter into a
merger agreement with SilverStream and Novell, Inc. Subsidiary, a wholly-owned
subsidiary of Novell ("Novell Subsidiary") (the "Merger Agreement"), pursuant to
which Novell Subsidiary will make a cash tender offer to acquire all of the
outstanding stock of SilverStream (the "Offer"). After consummation of the
Offer, Novell Subsidiary will be merged with and into SilverStream, with
SilverStream becoming the surviving corporation and a wholly-owned subsidiary of
Novell (the "Merger").
The purpose of this letter agreement is to (i) confirm the terms of your
continued employment with SilverStream OR Novell after consummation of the
Merger, (ii) confirm your reaffirmation of the terms of SilverStream's Standard
Employee Agreement, as set forth on Exhibit A (the "SilverStream Agreement"),
or, if you have not previously executed the SilverStream Agreement, your
agreement to the terms of the SilverStream Agreement, in either case as further
modified by this letter, and (iii) confirm your agreement to waive your rights
to accelerated vesting and exercisability under the terms of any of your stock
option agreements and any amendment to your outstanding stock option agreements;
provided, however, that the foregoing shall not become effective if the Merger
is not consummated. More specifically, in consideration of the position and
benefits outlined in this letter, to induce Novell to enter into the Merger
Agreement and to perform its obligations thereunder, and for other good and
valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby
acknowledged, by signing this letter, you agree (i) to the reaffirmation of the
SilverStream Agreement, or, in the event you have not previously executed the
SilverStream Agreement, to execute the SilverStream Agreement, in either case as
further modified by this letter, and (ii) that immediately prior to execution of
the Merger Agreement by Novell, your rights to the accelerated vesting
Novell was instrumental in making the Utah Valley a focus for technology and software development. Novell technology contributed to the emergence of local area networks, which displaced the dominant mainframe computing model and changed computing worldwide. Today, a primary focus of the company is on developing open source software for enterprise clients.
Good people are hard to find. It's difficult to find the talent you need at the cost that you can afford. In many cases, small businesses choose to develop the skills of their existing team, including the principals of the business. Finding good training is time consuming and expensive. In addition to the cost of training, small businesses also invest the cost of wages and the lost productivity associated with having team members attend training seminars.
Last Minute Training can help your small business develop the skills of your team at a reasonable price. Our service helps find the training you need and our participant driven vendor feedback system lets you see what other members think about our training vendors and their seminars.
responsibilities include: Customer relationship, Manpower planning, Staffing, Leading and Controlling.
• Recruitment: Understand job and profile requirements, resource planning, offer negotiation and finalization of selected candidates
• Training: Identification of current skill levels and continuous up gradation of competencies. Measurement of effectiveness of training programs
• Employee retention and motivation programs, employee communication, rewards and recognition schemes, organization development initiatives and culture building
• Employee counseling in high-pressure works situations
• Managing Employee Relations, Disciplinary procedures & Counseling of employees Conducting Employee Satisfaction surveys and devise action plan based on Performance management .
• Salary reviews & Performance Management System
• Organizational Development, Award/ Reward System.
• Accountable for all deliverables including new system plans, solutions, maintenance and service of installed solutions. Provide technical leadership and project management for the Team Leader to improve work performance of team members.
• Responsible for directing the development of company market, to monitor the development of business plans, competitive activity, and identifies customer needs. Interfaces with account development. Provides budget planning and staff/resources for management expertise. Determines operational objectives and assignments for subordinate units. Establish strategic plans and objectives. Contribute as a team member to the strategic examination and business plan development.
• Develops and executes marketing plans and programs both short and long range to ensure the profit growth and expansion of company products and/or services.
Novell appears to be doing its best in caring for these employees, offering several months of severance pay, apparently based on the number of years with the company, among other factors.
For those remaining employed there, Novell announced this week that it would be suspending 401(k) matching contributions, which followed on the heels of its formal filing on Monday, to that effect, with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Novell has spent the past few years attempting to reinvent itself as a Linux company, and it has managed to string together several quarters with strong earnings in its Linux business on the back of its controversial partnership with Microsoft. The company has struggled to compete effectively with Linux-leader Red Hat.
On November 2, a Novell PR representative contacted me to arrange a conversation with CEO Ron Hovsepian about Novell's "new focus in its strategic direction."
Whether this means more or less open source is not yet clear. It is clear, however, that Novell needs to focus more on top-line revenue growth, and not merely ways to cut costs. Until Novell learns to grow business, and not simply reduce expenses, its employees are going to remain all-too-familiar with layoffs.
Novell is currently negotiating with SilverStream to enter into a
merger agreement with SilverStream and Novell, Inc. Subsidiary, a wholly-owned
subsidiary of Novell ("Novell Subsidiary") (the "Merger Agreement"), pursuant to
which Novell Subsidiary will make a cash tender offer to acquire all of the
outstanding stock of SilverStream (the "Offer"). After consummation of the
Offer, Novell Subsidiary will be merged with and into SilverStream, with
SilverStream becoming the surviving corporation and a wholly-owned subsidiary of
Novell (the "Merger").
The purpose of this letter agreement is to (i) confirm the terms of your
continued employment with SilverStream OR Novell after consummation of the
Merger, (ii) confirm your reaffirmation of the terms of SilverStream's Standard
Employee Agreement, as set forth on Exhibit A (the "SilverStream Agreement"),
or, if you have not previously executed the SilverStream Agreement, your
agreement to the terms of the SilverStream Agreement, in either case as further
modified by this letter, and (iii) confirm your agreement to waive your rights
to accelerated vesting and exercisability under the terms of any of your stock
option agreements and any amendment to your outstanding stock option agreements;
provided, however, that the foregoing shall not become effective if the Merger
is not consummated. More specifically, in consideration of the position and
benefits outlined in this letter, to induce Novell to enter into the Merger
Agreement and to perform its obligations thereunder, and for other good and
valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby
acknowledged, by signing this letter, you agree (i) to the reaffirmation of the
SilverStream Agreement, or, in the event you have not previously executed the
SilverStream Agreement, to execute the SilverStream Agreement, in either case as
further modified by this letter, and (ii) that immediately prior to execution of
the Merger Agreement by Novell, your rights to the accelerated vesting
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