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Five years ride at ERI

I can't believe it! December 6 will be the day that I came back to Sun and work at ERI in Beijing, China for five years. Wow, five G... d ... years! I guess it's always good to look back to see what I learned, what I've done and ask myself how I feel about them. Yes, I learned a lot, for sure. Five years ago, ERI started to work on desktop applications, Solaris localization, then we expanded the product areas to work on Solaris, Java, client/server applications, etc. Organization changed, people come and go, sometime, it could be crazy, the same as other places. One thing I learned is to appreciate this much more diversified environment. People have all kinds of different backgrounds, experiences, viewpoints, desires, behavor patterns, it's more different than we could imagin and it becomes part of our life because of this global engineering thing. With that in mind, if we can still focus on one or two things we'd like to accomplish and be able to move things forward, step by step at a very compelling level, that's something we should be proud of! One of my way to define the meaning of doing things at compelling level is to do them with a group of very smart people in this industry. By that definition, I'm happy what I'm doing right now. Yes, congratulations to myself for my mostly-happy five years ride at ERI. :-)

Posted at 04:03PM Nov 22, 2006 by kzhou in Sun  |  Comments[3]