http://www.novell.com/prblogs/novell-signs-strategic-partnership-with-acs/ News and commentary about Novell Fri, 03 May 2013 12:04:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.novell.com/prblogs/novell-signs-strategic-partnership-with-acs/comment-page-1/#comment-156829 ibruce Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:11:16 +0000 http://www.novell.com/prblogs/?p=608#comment-156829 Thanks, Mike, for your interest. We appreciate you are probably concerned for how this change will affect your former Novell colleagues. For obvious reasons, it wouldn't be appropriate for us to talk about the specifics of compensation packages. However, be assured we have worked very closely with ACS to ensure that employees are treated very fairly through this process. ACS will achieve efficiencies over time by making changes to the mix of people and skills on the Novell business. Novell employees who "roll off" the Novell business will have other opportunities to work on different ACS client accounts. ACS has committed to Provo as a Center of Excellence and is excited about bringing on board a team of such talented employees. ACS is a $6.2 bn company, and is growing at 10% a year. They will be able to provide both efficiencies for Novell and growth opportunities for employees

]]> http://www.novell.com/prblogs/novell-signs-strategic-partnership-with-acs/comment-page-1/#comment-156606 Kennon Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:29:38 +0000 http://www.novell.com/prblogs/?p=608#comment-156606 As a former ACS employee I am very surprised that Novell would do business with ACS. ACS's "best practices" at least from 2002-2008 when I worked for them was to rip Novell products out of any environment they were contracted to manage and replace them with Microsoft. I worked in their Government Solutions division and the mood within that organization was very hostile to Novell and Linux in general. Scary times for Novell.

]]> http://www.novell.com/prblogs/novell-signs-strategic-partnership-with-acs/comment-page-1/#comment-156459 Mike Elquist Sun, 31 May 2009 05:11:19 +0000 http://www.novell.com/prblogs/?p=608#comment-156459 As a former Novell IS&T employee, I'm following this development closely. I see that no jobs will be lost, but I'm interested to know if pay will decrease, benefits will be reduced or what exactly the impact will be on the 156 employees mentioned. I can't really see an arrangement where ACS makes money, Novell makes money, and there is no change for those 156 people?

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