Hi buddies,
It's my last day at the office. As you know, I expect to leave Beijing
as a result of a deliberate decision. I clearly remember the scene of
the first dayI entered the office. Wow, it was almost five years ago.
I didn't expect the time would pass so fast. I simply didn't feel it.
Part of the reason is because of you. It's you who offer a flexible
and friendly working atmosphere. It's you who I got novel ideas from
via arguments. It's you who make me enjoy the happy hours in the team
building. I'd like to take this opportunity to show my appreciation to
the manager Ray. Thank you for providing me diversified opportunities
to grow in the past years. I appreciate having had the chance to work
with other fellow colleagues. Thanks for your coaching, supports and
collaborations. Here is the place where my career started, where I was
transformed from a college guy to a professional and where most time
of my twenties is devoted. The days with you folks are always memorable.
Anyhow, the good thing is since we are still within one big Oracle family,
there are lots of chances to meet in future. Please continue to do your
good jobs. See you.
Yours sincerely,
Miles
Friday, June 3, 2011
Farewell to the team
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
OK, write something.
I don't blog as I don't have much to share these days. Today I persuade myself to sit in front of the screen to write something. My blogs have been watched by my parents, my alumni, my fellow colleagues, the friends and enormous anonymous guys. So admittedly speaking, someone can't write freely when he is placed under the spotlight and examined carefully. I'm more willing to write in English so fewer guys are reading this. Each time when I wrote stuffs, it reminded me about the possible reactions from the audience. The topics were deliberately chose. The words were castrated. It's less about my feeling but more about my daily life or something less relevant. What's the hell am I doing! After all, blogging is not diary-writing, but somewhat like marketing. OK, please bare a pity guy in blue to pour out his bad mood this time. I'm not satisfied with myself. The life can't be continued in this way.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Sun sets
Sun approaches the horizon as the final stage of Sun's integration process into Oracle starts today with the notification of removal from Nasdaq and S/P 500 Index. 28 years, Sun has been a symbol of the innovation in the industry. Java, Solaris, SPARC, NFS, ZFS, Glassfish, SunRay and newly acquired Mysql, Virtualbox ... You name it. For its employees, Sun offers a great flexibility to boost their working days. A number of talents were cultivated here. I just realized all of us, the Sun guys are going to become Sun alumni in a way or another. While the wiki page for Sun Microsystems is approaching its final updates, yet the history is worth being written into the MBA textbook as a good case to analyze. Anyhow, Sun will rise again, but this time in Oracle red.
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Your career is more about your expertise
Several days ago, I had a talk over the the phone with a younger alumni working for a famous U.S. IT company in Shanghai. He is unsatisfied with the working circumstance. He thought he was so junior that nobody took him seriously even though he had contributed a lot.
I told him to take things easy. Well, I think it's the case almost every freshman can encounter. The career is full of challenges. In some cases, it's not about your expertise. But it's about how to deal with the people in your job, how to handle the crucial conversations with others and how to protect your interests while others also feel happy. Yeah, it's no easy work. The very first thing is to make yourself clear about your ultimate goal and your baseline. Your expertise can be the fundamental to promote your growth. But other qualities such as conversation, persuasion and negotiation are essential. Even those serious interest confrontations can be treated as judo but not a fight. The spirit of judo is to crack somebody down using his own strength. A fight in the job, I believe, can more or less hurt yourself even if you still survive.
Anyhow, your career is more about your expertise. Your life is more about your career.
I told him to take things easy. Well, I think it's the case almost every freshman can encounter. The career is full of challenges. In some cases, it's not about your expertise. But it's about how to deal with the people in your job, how to handle the crucial conversations with others and how to protect your interests while others also feel happy. Yeah, it's no easy work. The very first thing is to make yourself clear about your ultimate goal and your baseline. Your expertise can be the fundamental to promote your growth. But other qualities such as conversation, persuasion and negotiation are essential. Even those serious interest confrontations can be treated as judo but not a fight. The spirit of judo is to crack somebody down using his own strength. A fight in the job, I believe, can more or less hurt yourself even if you still survive.
Anyhow, your career is more about your expertise. Your life is more about your career.
Monday, April 20, 2009
Oracle to buy Sun
ANTA CLARA, Calif., April 20, 2009 -- Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) and Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) announced today they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Oracle will acquire Sun common stock for $9.50 per share in cash. The transaction is valued at approximately $7.4 billion, or $5.6 billion net of Sun's cash and debt.
Here I'd like to reference a famous Chinese poetry.
Here I'd like to reference a famous Chinese poetry.
天净沙 秋思
枯藤老树昏鸦，
小桥流水人家，
古道西风瘦马。
夕阳西下，
断肠人在天涯。
Sunday, April 19, 2009
My Blog, My Life
Those who have ever read my blogs would find the contents have little to do with technology stuffs. I'd say I dislike mixing my work and my life since I've already contributed most of my time to the work while awake. It's terrible to infect my blogs with the tedious work details. And technology-intensive stuffs can simply drive most of my readers away. I do love my job. But it should never annex my life. Calling to mind, I wasn't a student purely on science and engineering. I was totally addicted to reading geographic books and catching odd insects in my childhood. In the senior high school, handling the courses such as biology, geography, history and English is a piece of cake for me so that I was hesitated to continue my study in the science class or the literature class when the students were asked to make choices. Later, I selected computer science as my major with no reasons that convinced myself. Now I have a fancy to read Wikipedia and visit museums to digest the geographic, historical and sociological information. Afterward, I experienced it by traveling. What I'm enthusiastic to do is to share my Picasa album which records the world in my eyes and represent my feeling of the world. No matter what sorts of frustrations and tangles that come to me, the world is splendid. I like keep talking to deliver what I know. But little echos were received. Anyway, as I indicated, to me it's the best gift on earth to experience the amazing world.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Where to go, Chinese college graduates?
Miles Xu
These days quite a lot of guys lose their good appetites. Global economy is aggravating. Companies are laying off people. The housing price is flying high. The world seems to be surrounded by these eye-catching words. Among them are the college graduates. As reported, graduation means unemployment for millions of graduates this year. They find their way hard. But the financial crisis is the only part of the story. At most, it's merely catalysis. Years ago, I thought this moment would come, sooner or later. Now the crisis just accelerates the process.
Why dare I say so. "Thanks to" the commercialized higher education policy starting from 1999, the number of college students has been growing like a balloon, from 1 million in 1999 to 6 million in 2009. As a contrast, university facilities don't catch up with the speed. Now one job recruiting show can attract as many as tens of thousands graduates. Sure, the job opportunities are limited especially in this bad economic climate. So most of those applicants will be screened out. Anyway, as least it sounds like good news for employers, right? They own a large candidate base. But still the complains from employers are rising to the recent graduates for their lacking competences. Most recently the graduates, who were once decorated as the "social elites", have been enlisted into the class of people that need help along with rural migrant workers. What's the hell are we doing these years?
In this circumstance, the whole nation were mobilized to increase the employment rate of the college graduates. Some odd ideas are invented. Some congressmen suggest universities should create "post-undergraduate" positions akin to "post-doctor". The unemployed graduates are encouraged to seek jobs in rural areas as a solution. Beijing and Guangzhou local authorities decide to hire graduates to serve communities. Shanghai local authority is giving financial support to fresh graduate start-ups. The whole society seem to be enthusiastic to resolve the issue. And MoE has implemented the plan to raise the number of the master students by 5% in 2009. Then will it work?
Are we resolving or just relieving the issue? Why are graduates unwilling to work in the rural areas? Because the working and living conditions are poor there. Some graduates came from villages. Their family spent lots of money to afford the college fees in the hope that the children can change their fortunes. But now nothing has changed. The family's investment doesn't bring them a matching return. As indicated, those "post-undergraduates" won't sign formal contracts with employers. I think it equals to opening a backdoor in the Labor Law, giving the chances to hire employees without basic salaries and social insurances. And since those graduate start-ups lacks too much experience, the possibilities of surviving are low. I see no wisdom to encourage it.
Anyhow, the essential idea is good, to diversify employment opportunities. In short terms, these measures can relieve the pains. But we are surfing on the peak of second wave of baby-boom graduates in the last half century. The society just can't digest the flood. That's the point. So I think there should be a hierarchical change in the higher education. Do we really need so many bachelors, masters as well as doctors in near future? Do we need some many colleges to set majors such as Computer Science/Engineering and Business Management? Do we really need so many future philosophers and scientists? We are creating too many homogeneous graduates with low quality. I think what China lacks currently are skilled workers, proficient peasants and smart businessmen. The university education is not essential. Community colleges or professional schools may be better choices for them. Yes, it's hard to change, especially when it's related to some people's interests. But anyhow, it's crucial to take a responsible attitude to the nation's future.
These days quite a lot of guys lose their good appetites. Global economy is aggravating. Companies are laying off people. The housing price is flying high. The world seems to be surrounded by these eye-catching words. Among them are the college graduates. As reported, graduation means unemployment for millions of graduates this year. They find their way hard. But the financial crisis is the only part of the story. At most, it's merely catalysis. Years ago, I thought this moment would come, sooner or later. Now the crisis just accelerates the process.
Why dare I say so. "Thanks to" the commercialized higher education policy starting from 1999, the number of college students has been growing like a balloon, from 1 million in 1999 to 6 million in 2009. As a contrast, university facilities don't catch up with the speed. Now one job recruiting show can attract as many as tens of thousands graduates. Sure, the job opportunities are limited especially in this bad economic climate. So most of those applicants will be screened out. Anyway, as least it sounds like good news for employers, right? They own a large candidate base. But still the complains from employers are rising to the recent graduates for their lacking competences. Most recently the graduates, who were once decorated as the "social elites", have been enlisted into the class of people that need help along with rural migrant workers. What's the hell are we doing these years?
In this circumstance, the whole nation were mobilized to increase the employment rate of the college graduates. Some odd ideas are invented. Some congressmen suggest universities should create "post-undergraduate" positions akin to "post-doctor". The unemployed graduates are encouraged to seek jobs in rural areas as a solution. Beijing and Guangzhou local authorities decide to hire graduates to serve communities. Shanghai local authority is giving financial support to fresh graduate start-ups. The whole society seem to be enthusiastic to resolve the issue. And MoE has implemented the plan to raise the number of the master students by 5% in 2009. Then will it work?
Are we resolving or just relieving the issue? Why are graduates unwilling to work in the rural areas? Because the working and living conditions are poor there. Some graduates came from villages. Their family spent lots of money to afford the college fees in the hope that the children can change their fortunes. But now nothing has changed. The family's investment doesn't bring them a matching return. As indicated, those "post-undergraduates" won't sign formal contracts with employers. I think it equals to opening a backdoor in the Labor Law, giving the chances to hire employees without basic salaries and social insurances. And since those graduate start-ups lacks too much experience, the possibilities of surviving are low. I see no wisdom to encourage it.
Anyhow, the essential idea is good, to diversify employment opportunities. In short terms, these measures can relieve the pains. But we are surfing on the peak of second wave of baby-boom graduates in the last half century. The society just can't digest the flood. That's the point. So I think there should be a hierarchical change in the higher education. Do we really need so many bachelors, masters as well as doctors in near future? Do we need some many colleges to set majors such as Computer Science/Engineering and Business Management? Do we really need so many future philosophers and scientists? We are creating too many homogeneous graduates with low quality. I think what China lacks currently are skilled workers, proficient peasants and smart businessmen. The university education is not essential. Community colleges or professional schools may be better choices for them. Yes, it's hard to change, especially when it's related to some people's interests. But anyhow, it's crucial to take a responsible attitude to the nation's future.
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