Seldom, we longed so much for the new guy to arrive. And rarely, the arrived fits so well.

Welcome Chris Lin, Sun's new President for Greater China. We started recruiting since summer. Last Friday, February 22nd, he came onboard officially. Monday, virtually the 2nd day at work, he visited our engineering center. Sun's press release described his background.

Yes, he held senior positions in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the USA. He speaks Mandarin, Cantonese, and English fluently (plus some native Taiwanese). Chris was born in the GuangDong (Canton) Province (广东，潮安) in the mid-60s, moved to Hong Kong after elementary school, and 12 more times in his life. He has become a Beijing resident. His family, wife and 2 kids, will join him when the school year starts.

A whirl-wind of activities swept him up immediately. He has visited all three regions of Greater China and will fly to India the next morning. His visit to ERI started with a nice lunch over which I found him personable, straight-forward, energetic, and a bit nerdy quite enthusiastic on technologies.

He took off the jacket and loosened the tie when he entered the room. After a brief introduction, a dialogue lasted over an hour with engineering leadership. We were curious on his positions on open-source, China's market, Sun's future in this country, etc. He answered readily. We also touched on some softer parts of him. (His proud accomplishment of the past 7 years was his family. His biggest anxiety of this job is not being able to spend enough time with them. He does not believe doing business in China is significantly different from elsewhere.)

This appears to be the beginning of a nice relationship.