Novell ( http://www.novell.com/npgb ) is looking out for senior software engineers.

Says the corporation: "Novell becomes an aggressive player in the LINUX revolution ... With products that power 4 million servers, support over 90 million users worldwide, and serve 81% of the Fortune companies in the US, the $1 billion Novell is better known as the world's largest network softwre development company.

"But the acquisition of Ximian (R) and SuSE (R), the second largest Linux company in the world, has drastically changed the scenario. we have become the world's largest Linux vendor -- offering a full range of enterprise solutions on Linux platform, from the server to the desktop ( http://www.novell.com/linux )

"We have exciting openings at Novell Bangalore..."

See The Hindu, March 17, 2004, which carries a half-page advert for

* Senior Software Engineers (Skills: C/C++, C#, Core Java Swing and Backend, good debugging skills, multi-threading programming... on Linux)

* Directory Services (knowledge in one or more, LDAP, XML, OS Internals and Security Technologies) PROJECTCODE DS

* Network Management (knowledge of Database concepts and administration; Java Web based development and OOAD) PROJECTCODE NM

* Secure Identity Management (working on VPN, Firewall and Proxy technologies and related security services... both servers and desktops) PROJECTCODE SIM

* Platform Services (working on file systems, network storage services -- backup and restore, and network protocols TCP/IP) PROJECTCODE PS

* Linux Desktop Developers / Testers (involves working on projects like Mono ( http://www.go-mono.org ), GNOME ( http://www.gnome.org or http://www.gnomebangalore.org ) Mozilla ( http://www.mozilla.org ) and Evolution ( http://www.gnome.org/projects/evolution ) PROJECTCODE LD

Ability to program and test in an Open Source development model is most desirable. Experience 2-5 years. Email cv indicating project code to career@novel.com