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20050802 Tuesday August 02, 2005
Off to Beijing
Today I'm off to Beijing, where Sun has a large and growing engineering center.  My team there now includes more than 150 people, and this will be my third trip to Beijing this year.  What's different about this trip is that I'm bringing my entire staff with me.  Why?  Because to develop and grow a site six thousand miles and sixteen time zones away from headquarters requires significant investment and dedication to success.  Giving my staff the chance to meet the engineers and managers at the site, and vice versa, is an important step in bringing Beijing virtually closer to Menlo Park.  We're very excited about the opportunities in China.  Our Beijing Engineering and Research Institute will play a large part in helping us develop those opportunities

Stay tuned.  I suspect you'll see some blogs from Beijing.

Aug 02 2005, 09:01:18 AM PDT Permalink Comments [2]

Trackback URL: http://blogs.sun.com/gaw/entry/off_to_beijing
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16 timezones? The most you can be is 12. Half way around you start comming back on yourself! And I think the most in hours is 14. 12 for the time zones -1 and +1 if you change hemispheres for summer and winter time.

Posted by 203.48.45.194 on August 15, 2005 at 07:44 PM PDT #

And before somebody points out you can be be 24 hours ahead or behind I'm ignoring the day. I'm just talking about hours. In NZ I'm 5 hours behind LA, but a whole day in front; clear?

Posted by 203.48.45.194 on August 15, 2005 at 07:51 PM PDT #

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