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That's the decision, let Kurian know.

Let him start right away.

Next, the teams at home and abroad will be integrated together, and they will all listen to his instructions. They will fully promote the iteration, improvement, and growth of the Ziwei cloud database, and become the world's first commercial cloud database ahead of the Amazon cloud database. Native database.

The matter is not over yet.

How to heal the psychological trauma of the domestic team, reduce their sense of loss, and make them willing to actively cooperate with Kurian's work is the most critical.

Zhou Buqi proposed a three-step approach: move for benefit, understand with affection, and make a wish.

The benefit of moving is a salary increase.

Everyone in Ni Qiang's database team will have a 25% salary increase due to work adjustments to encourage them to cooperate with Kurian;

Knowing his feelings, it is necessary for Zhou Buqi and many nuclear executives to come forward.

After the decision-making committee, Zhou Buqi, together with Zhang Yiming, He Yang, Guo Pengfei, Wang Xiaochuan, Cheng Binghao, Ji Zian, Liang Rubo, Nie Caijun, Pei Yao, Meng Houkun, Wang Jian and other group executives, took the initiative to visit Ziwei Yun Building, meet with the 122-person technical team led by Dr. Ni Qiang.

Reasonable, present the facts, let them feel the sincerity and apology of the company.

The company made such a decision not because of ignoring them, on the contrary, it is Ziweixing's consistent tradition to attach importance to technical talents.

The reason for making such a decision is entirely out of practical considerations.

The situation is urgent.

Ziwei Cloud and Amazon Cloud are at the critical juncture of competing for the leader in cloud-native databases.

However, Ziweiyun encountered some troubles.

Ziweixing has not yet been listed.

In terms of financial strength and scale, it is not as good as Amazon.If Kurian is allowed to open his hands and recruit engineers in the database field in large numbers in Silicon Valley, it will cost at least $10 billion in the next two years.

This is an enormous expense.

It's a bit unbearable.

Ziweiyun's investment is already big enough, even Kurian is embarrassed to open his mouth to expand recruitment.

In this difficult period, if the domestic team can step up as a backup, it can be of great help to Kurian.

After a few years, Ziweixing International will be listed, and Ziweiyun's overseas business will be booming, and it will be able to turn losses into profits and generate billions of dollars in profits every year. At that time, Kurian's side will not If he needs domestic help, he can build a real direct R&D team in the international market.

This gets to the point.

On behalf of his team, Dr. Ni Qiang asked: "When Kurian's team doesn't need domestic team assistance, what are we going to do?"

This is actually singing a double reed.

Because Dr. Ni Qiang was invited to attend the decision-making committee just now, he knew what was going on.This inquiry is actually a way to stabilize the morale of the army by cooperating internally and externally.

Last resort: make a wish.

Zhou Buqi said loudly: "Continue to do what we should do! I believe that many people here have participated in the development of the Feitian database. Back then, when Dr. Yang Zhenkun was working on the Feitian database, he proposed to develop a It is an indomitable product, and this belief must continue.”

Zhang Yiming explained with a smile, "I have also heard these days that there are many speculations within us, saying that we will abandon the domestic version of the database and support Kurian instead. The reasons have already been mentioned, so I won't go into details .However, one rumor is wrong, the decision-makers have never thought of giving up this version of the domestic database!"

"Not give up?"

As soon as these words came out, there was somewhat commotion.

If you give up, you must fail; if you don't give up, you still have hope.

Zhang Yiming went on to say: "This version of the domestic database will be temporarily sealed. The time is estimated not to be too long, at most 2-3 years. Our team will be seconded to Kurian. During this process, we will Learn, grow, gain experience."

Dr. Wang Jian is the chief CTO and the founder of Ziweiyun. He is very authoritative. He added: "We all know how big the gap exists between us and overseas R&D teams in terms of these underlying technologies. The domestic database It is embarrassing that the talents in the field are withered. Cooperating with Kurian is a rare opportunity for us to learn from the West."

Then, he spoke in detail about the current status of the domestic database industry.

Zhou Buqi didn't know much about it before, but after hearing it, he also sighed.

In domestic colleges and universities, at least 10 database talents are trained every year.

However, most of them are application layer talents.

What they learned is how to use the database, not how to develop the database, which are completely different directions.

It's like a car.

The car company has manufactured a car, but no one can drive it, what should I do?
At this time, a large number of drivers were trained in the university. After they graduated and entered the workplace, they appeared as drivers in major companies.

It's useless to have a car without a driver.

So the driver has become a very respected, seemingly tall profession, and is considered a talent in the automotive field.

Most of the database talents in China are actually drivers.

There have been many sensational phenomena.

For example, if a company wants to use a certain database, if it wants to use the database, it must first be installed.At this time, it is necessary to find a database installation talent to help, just like installing a water heater.

However, installing a water heater is manual work, so how much is it?

Installing database software is mental work, and the one-time cost of 15 is considered low. For a larger scale, 50 or 70 is possible.

After the database is installed, how to use the database?
This is another problem.

Therefore, the company has to spend a lot of money to hire some database operation and maintenance talents to let them use these database products.

Then there will be other questions.

The data in the database is very important and needs to be backed up frequently.Once a server or database failure occurs, data recovery is required at this time.

This is another technical direction. General database operation and maintenance talents do not know how to recover data at all.

At this time, it is necessary to find database data recovery experts from the market to help. The one-time fee is at least 200 million, and 500 million or 600 million is not uncommon.

Installation talents, operation and maintenance talents, data recovery talents... are actually application-oriented talents. They all learn to use the database after others have developed it.

In fact, they are all car drivers.

99% of the talents in the domestic database industry are like this.

However, is the driver also considered a talent?

The real database talents should be those who develop the database!Just like cars, those who can produce and manufacture cars are called car talents, and those who can drive are called drivers.

This is very embarrassing.

Domestic colleges and universities have trained too many "drivers", but lack such real database talents. Only a few colleges and universities such as Tsinghua University and Peking University will provide in-depth courses on the underlying development of databases.

And for these real talents who understand the underlying technology of the database, what is the career direction after graduation?

Do the ground floor?

No chance, there is no self-developed database that can be put on the table in China.

Then there are only two ways to choose, either transform into an application, and help others install, maintain, and restore the database like others; or go abroad and go to Microsoft, Oracle, Cisco, Sun, Google and other big companies that really have databases , engaged in the underlying development work.

In other words, either work as a driver in China, or go abroad to build a car.

People like Ni Qiang came back from the United States because they wanted to go back to China to "build cars" and develop their own databases.Only when the national database is developed, those college students who have the underlying database technology will get employment opportunities in the country, and they will not have to go abroad like the older generation.

This is a very ambitious ideal.

Once Ziweixing gave up, what was the significance of their return to China?
Fortunately, Dr. Wang Jian made it very clear.

Just stranded, not given up.

It is very difficult to build a car.

There is a lack of experience in this area in China, so it is best not to rush to build a car.First go to the West to learn scriptures.And the goal of this learning is Kurian. What a rare opportunity to learn?
Learn for two or three years.

At that time, Ziwei Star International will be listed, Ziwei Cloud will also generate a lot of profits in overseas markets, and Ziwei Cloud's commercial native database will also be launched...

At this time, Kurian does not need domestic reinforcements to help.

Coincidentally, after two or three years of study, Ni Qiang's team can also accumulate enough experience and have grown substantially in the technical field, so they can restart the road of car manufacturing.

As soon as these words were finished, many people froze on the spot.

I go? !
A leader is indeed a leader, and the level is high. It's really turning your hands into clouds and hands into rain. Good and bad things are all on your mouth.Shelving the domestic version of the database and letting the domestic team do chores for Kurian... turned out to be a good thing?
At this time, Cheng Binghao, a veteran technical tycoon, spoke, and said lightly: "Technology can't fool people. To do technology, you must be humble and self-aware. Our team has a huge technological gap with Kurian's team." The gap. Dr. Ni Qiang, Dr. Zheng Mengxiao, and Dr. Li Gaoming all returned from the United States, and they have the most say. Cloud database is a big project, and they, the masters who have returned from the United States, cannot complete such a large project. In the final analysis , we still have to rely on a large number of local scientific research talents. However, we all ask ourselves, including me... Do we really understand the world's most cutting-edge technological ideas? Do we understand the technological trends in Silicon Valley? We passed the 20 years ago Can the programming knowledge learned in textbooks really develop a cloud database that is at the forefront of the times? Put your mind at ease and learn first. In the process of growing up, the least time-consuming choice is to learn."

Ni Qiang stated, "Our team needs to learn from overseas teams. It can also be seen from the product that the version of the database developed by Kurian's team is much better than the one we developed. This It is an opportunity to seek the truth, and even ninety-nine and 81 difficulties cannot stop our faith!"