Monthly Report: 2/18/2000 - 3/16/2000
Name: Honglin Su, Systems Engineer, Central Region

1. SUMMARY

    + Continue to improve my technical skills in a broad disciplines,
not only 
in the server, but also in storage and software as well.

    + As a follow up effort with Daniela, successfully completed the E10 
benchmark test at Sun Beaverton Benchmark Center on Feb. 19, and worked
well with our customers.

    + Actively worked with other SEs and SRs, in case they need any
help:
        - did research on workstation roadmap for Clement;
        - Installed StorageEdge A3500FC with Elaine at Fidelity Insurance;
        - etc.

    + Attend 2nd wave of SE symposium, updated SE knowledge and got to
know 
more about SE teams, excellent!

    + Make a contribution to E-Biz seminar, I prepared a brief
presentation on 
XML, which is a universal format for structural documents and data on
the web. 
The slides partly came from what I got from SE symposium, and partly
from the
research I did last year.


2. TRAINING SUMMARY

    + Storage training: for the network age, the data become more and
more 
important, and data capacity grows bigger and bigger, it's big sell
point, and
we should never ignore the great opportunity of storage.

    + In-depth reading on Indentrus. There was a webcasting last month,
the
contents were made online now, picked up the knowledge for better
banking support. 

    + Sun.COM summit, it was good, especially the presentation by Gail
Smith, 
VP from Scotia Bank, let us know how .com from customer perspective.
However, 
most of other contents have overlap with what I got from SE symposium.

3. PLAN FOR THE UPCOMING MONTH

    + Get involved more with our SEs or SRs, Continue to build
fundamental SE skills, 
get to work well with our customers.

    + Attend new hire training during the week of April 8 to April 15.

    + Attend Solaris 8 update and other TOIs.