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.
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
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.
Friday, February 13, 2009
It's a dark day
As expected, Beijing had a rain after 110 days' drought, which cast the sky in dark. As planned, we had a job laid-off in China, which cast our hearts in dark. I still can't comfort myself since some of my friends are let go. I don't wanna comment much here since the stories behind the facts are beyond my imagination. I just say "You guys are the best. Good luck!".
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Sun's Q2 FY09 Financial Results
(The following words only represent my own opinions, which has nothing to do with the ideas of Sun Microsystems.)
Our CEO
http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/q2_fy2009
As expected, it's mixed as the world is in the recession. But the results do show strong growth businesses of Sun, from Java to Mysql, from Solaris to xVM, from CMT to x64 to Open Storage. I see Solaris plays an important role in the growth, not just Solaris subscription billing itself. Solaris enables the functionality of xVM, CMT and Open Storage.
And I really appreciate the insight in the blog.
"Like the market for traditional storage, the networking marketplace is characterized by very high prices, proprietary software and restrictive hardware platforms - exactly the environment in which open source software and commodity components create choice and competition, welcome changes for customers seeking budgetary and technical relief."
Will we have Open Switch based on OpenSolaris in the future just like Open Storage? I don't know. The market should determine it.
The company is on the way of reshaping itself, transforming the innovation into the revenue.
Our CEO
http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/q2_fy2009
As expected, it's mixed as the world is in the recession. But the results do show strong growth businesses of Sun, from Java to Mysql, from Solaris to xVM, from CMT to x64 to Open Storage. I see Solaris plays an important role in the growth, not just Solaris subscription billing itself. Solaris enables the functionality of xVM, CMT and Open Storage.
And I really appreciate the insight in the blog.
"Like the market for traditional storage, the networking marketplace is characterized by very high prices, proprietary software and restrictive hardware platforms - exactly the environment in which open source software and commodity components create choice and competition, welcome changes for customers seeking budgetary and technical relief."
Will we have Open Switch based on OpenSolaris in the future just like Open Storage? I don't know. The market should determine it.
The company is on the way of reshaping itself, transforming the innovation into the revenue.
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