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Ni Qiang went on to say: "Business expansion and technology development all require talents and continuous technological innovation. This is too difficult, mainly because of the lack of people."

"Wait!" Zhou Buqi interrupted him, "I remember when the Feitian database was first launched, the effect was pretty good."

Ni Qiang nodded, "It is very good, and it is also very good now, maintaining the operation of the 'gold coin wallet system' is very efficient. But the key is... Let's put it this way, if you make a product to serve one person, you can serve it exquisitely Comprehensive; if you want to serve ten people, you can achieve perfection. However, if you want to serve a hundred, a thousand, or 1 people, you can’t do it on your own, and you have to recruit more enough helper."

"Well, the scale is getting bigger and bigger."

"Yes, that's what it means. For the Feitian database...and many high-end scientific research projects that are self-developed in China, there is still no one, and there is a shortage of people."

Zhou Buqi frowned slightly, "In the name of Ziweixing, you can't even recruit them?"

Ni Qiang pondered and said: "I joined the job relatively late. When Lao Yang led the team to develop the Feitian database, I didn't participate. But I know the general situation. At that time, his project received your strong support, and you almost took it All the high-level talents in related fields in China have been poached, especially Baidu has a distributed big data project, which has been handed over to a bunch of people."

"Yes."

Zhou Buqi smiled, thinking of the series of flashy operations he had done in the early days of Ziweixing's start-up in order to find senior talents for the company.

Thinking back on it now, it also makes my blood boil.

Ni Qiang said: "The team led by Lao Yang should be the most powerful team in the field of distributed, big data, and database in China. Of course, the effect is indeed very good, and the product has been developed. But here is a team based on It is a question of the input-output ratio of talents.”

"Ok?"

Zhou Buqi raised his eyebrows.

Ni Qiang went on to say: "Lao Yang formed a team of elite soldiers and generals back then, but he failed to fully display the level of these people. Because the Feitian database is self-developed, and those related talents are transferred from other directions. I came here. Originally, a T8 scientist may only be able to perform at a T6 level in the research of the Feitian database."

Zhou Buqi understood this truth, "It's true."

Ni Qiang said: "There is also the problem of scale. There is a huge difference between the experimental version and the application version. Just like a large aircraft, there are two giants in the world, one is Boeing and the other is Airbus. If we want to launch a It is difficult to make a large aircraft, but it can be done. But it must be an experimental version, a test version, and it can only be tried under protected conditions. There is still a long way to go to compete with Boeing and Airbus for market share. The gap in the field. The Feitian database works very well, but this is only an early experimental version. If you want to be truly commercialized, you must either actively reduce the scale and serve a specific direction, or you need more talent support and longer research.”

"So the current mainstream direction of databases is Oracle database and Sun's MySQL open source framework."

"Yes."

"Is it similar to the smartphone industry? It is the confrontation between the independent Apple and the open source Android. The market has been divided, and even if Microsoft wants to enter this industry, it is impossible."

Ni Qiang said with a smile: "There are some similarities, just like the current college students learning App development, in fact, there are two languages, one is the language of the Apple system, and the other is the language of the Android system. Symbian, Microsoft, Blackberry’s operating system-related research talents are definitely not as many as Apple and Android. However, the database field is more extreme, and it is more difficult to cross fields.”

After a pause, he went on to say: "It's actually not that difficult for an Android developer to switch to BlackBerry development. You can switch from Oracle to MySQL, which is not an order of magnitude, and you have to downgrade technically. If you switch to When it comes to the self-developed Feitian database, the gap is even greater.”

"This will lead to a low input-output ratio of talents!"

Zhou Buqi now understands the major dilemma of self-development in terms of cost.

In the current market, there are basically two types of senior database talents, one is to study the Oracle database framework, and the other is to study the open source MySQL framework.

It's like the relationship between Apple and Android in the smartphone market.

Smartphones have only been around for a few years, and the market is already very distinct. Any college student knows that when learning programming, he must either learn iOS or Android. No one would foolishly learn some outdated operating systems such as Symbian and Blackberry. Development language.

The pattern of the database industry has long been determined, and the teaching materials of universities are completely oriented towards the direction of Oracle and MySQL to cultivate talents.

The trend of the industry determines the selection of talents.

Playing self-research is breaking away from the mainstream and establishing a school, which is against the trend of the whole world.

Then, even if talents are recruited, they must be used at a discount.

Originally, he had a T9 level in the MySQL field, but after entering the unfamiliar environment of Feitian database, he may only have a T7 business ability.

Why should he quit?

Then you can only get a big salary increase.

Before he was engaged in MySQL, he was at the T9 level with an annual salary of 1000 million; after joining Feitian Database, he was at the T7 level, which was obviously lower, but he had to be offered a salary of 1500 million.

If the investment is too high and the output is too little, it is not worthwhile.

At this time, the two parties had arrived at the office of Dr. Zhou Feng, the president of Ziwei Cloud, and he was already waiting here with Dr. Wang Jian.

Ni Qiang just raised his hand to say hello to the two of them, and then went on to talk about the topic just now, "If you can spend a little more money to polish the product and turn it into an excellent product like the Oracle database, that's fine. The key It can’t be done. It’s still a talent problem. So many innovative self-research in high-tech fields are born in the United States, mainly because of talents.”

Zhou Feng and Wang Jian looked at each other, both a little surprised.

Just as he was about to ask something, Ni Qiang raised his hand again and interrupted him, and continued: "There are already a lot of talents in the Internet field in China, and there is not even a shortage of world-class talents. If there are first-class talents behind the Oracle database , Behind the Feitian database is also first-class talents. If we work hard and invest more money, it is really possible to catch up. The key is that there are not many talents. Again, working across technical routes requires technical downgrading. First-class talents are engaged in Oracle database First-class talents in the field of Feitian database may be downgraded to third-rate talents. We spend a lot of money to poach some world-class talents from the United States, and let them join Feitian database. It is very difficult to do When people give full play to their talents, not to mention that they can’t produce very good results, they will not feel comfortable working.”

Zhou Buqi nodded, "Well, first-rate talents make first-rate products, and third-rate talents can only make third-rate products. It's really not quite right to use a group of third-rate talents to compete with the first-rate talent team behind Oracle and MySQL. possible."

Ni Qiang went on to say: "In this high-tech field, if you want to develop a new product to beat the existing first-class products on the market, there is only one possibility. It requires god-level talents, which is rare. Technology masters! They have crossed fields, their technology has been downgraded, and they can still have the level of first-class talents. Of course, they can develop first-class products. However, it can be said that there is no such technology master in China. Even if there are , and it is impossible to recruit people from China to work.”

Zhou Feng heard what they were saying clearly, and said with a smile: "Yes, even if there are some special technical geniuses who can quickly overcome the level of technical degradation, they are too few. If Feitian Database wants to expand its scale and To be big, at least a few thousand outstanding technical experts are needed.”

This time, Zhou Buqi understood.

I also know why Zhou Feng ousted Yang Zhenkun shortly after he became the president of Ziweiyun, and hired Ni Qiang to lead the database development business.

Sure enough, there is still a specialization in the art industry.

In the face of hard-core technology, my foresight is not enough.

Zhou Buqi was very emotional, "So, no matter how good the Feitian database is, it can only be a product in a niche field, because we can't find more people to support this product for a larger market."

Zhou Feng smiled and said: "That's right, it's not that Feitian database is bad... On the contrary, this product is very good, and even in distributed execution, the effect will be better than Oracle database. The disadvantage is that it is difficult for us to scale It is difficult to rely on this product to compete with Oracle database and several databases in the MySQL open source framework in the market.”

Ni Qiang said: "Cloud computing is inseparable from cloud databases. Ziweiyun must have a cloud-native database that belongs to us and has sufficient market competitiveness."

Zhou Buqi said: "So we have to bypass Feitian database and develop a database that can really compete with Oracle and MySQL in the market."

Ni Qiang breathed a long sigh of relief, "That's right, and it can only be a cloud database based on the MySQL open source framework. Even the databases of Silicon Valley giants such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook use the MySQL open source framework. There is no future for pure self-research.”

Zhou Buqi nodded, "Just like the operating system of a smartphone, if you want to develop the operating system now, you can only make some revisions and changes based on the open source framework of the Android system. Microsoft is not convinced and wants to Building an operating system WM by myself is already half-dead."

"That's right! That's what it means! Microsoft can't bypass the Android framework to make a mobile operating system, and Google can't bypass the MySQL framework to make a database. Microsoft can't, Google can't, and no one can! This is not only a technical problem, but also related to the entire The world's industry trends are related to the ecological structure of the entire industry, such as commerce, academia, education, technology, and industry cognition."

Ni Qiang felt that he had finally explained this topic clearly.

It is really tiring to explain the truth to this kind of technical layman. It is not enough to insist, he still can't understand, and he has to rack his brains to give examples to help him understand.

Fortunately, Boss Zhou seems to have a good understanding of smartphones and Android systems, which is more vivid.

After explaining clearly why Ziweixing wants to bypass Feitian database and re-develop a cloud database, the next topic can be carried out smoothly.