How to get your LinkedIn profile to show the correct company
for each position.
LinkedIn Tips & Traps - Positions
Contacts:
Micro Focus UK and U.S. Headquarters [scroll down] Other
countries:
https://www.microfocus.com/about/contact/
On Sep 9, 2017, HPE Software was spun out and merged
with the UK company
Micro Focus.
Micro Focus is a completely separate
company from HPE
-- not a successor corporation to HPE.
Which HP-related companies am I a retiree or former employee of? (Not always obvious.)
Given HP's complex history of acquisitions, divestitures, and spinoffs, the company or companies that you are legally a former
employee of may not be obvious. If any
doubt, check here:
Which Company
Employment verification and experience letters
for Hewlett-Packard or Hewlett Packard Enterprise,
predecessor companies, and successor companies.
Employment and Salary Verification
Experience Letter
Time to untangle your stock! No one but you really cares about
your employment-related stock. You may now have stock in up to seven
HP-related companies. Your stock may not all be in the same place, or be
registered to your current postal address. You may need to find stray
accounts or retrieve lost stock, dividends, or cash payouts. The IRS
does not have the ability to independently determine your cost basis;
you may need to estimate it. An HP Alumni team has developed a
step-by-step process.
https://www.hpalumni.org/stock
If you have stock paperwork or certificates for Micro Focus: Micro
Focus Stock
For those who transitioned to Micro Focus:
-
401(k) Members report that the next 401(k) match payout was
to be on the date of their transition.
- Classified as a former employee or retiree of HPE. Treated as though
you left HPE to join any other company. Entitled to whatever retiree
coverage you qualified for at the time you left HPE. (If qualified for
the
"Pre-2003" retirement program,
classified as a retiree of HPE but health benefits
administered by HP Inc.)
Fortune
article summarizing breakup of Hewlett-Packard into HPInc,
Hewlett Packard Enterprise, DXC, and Micro Focus.
"Transaction valued at approximately $8.8 billion, including
50.1% ownership of the new combined company by HPE
shareholders and a $2.5 billion cash payment to HPE." --original
Sept 7, 2016
HPE announcement
Pre-spinoff diagram of Micro Focus product history,
including the product lines being acquired from HPE --
ArcSight, Autonomy, Mercury, Opsware, Peregrine, Tower,
Vertica -- with the original HP acquisition price for
each.
MicroFocus-HPES Portfolio 4/1/17
Micro Focus sold the Atalla hardware security business
(formerly part of HPE)
Announcement Also sold 1,400-employee
open-source enterprise software company SUSE (formerly part
of Novell) for $2.5 billion in cash.
Announcement
Financial Times
The Register
