Roger Strukhoff

An obligatory night shot here. I lost my cool little FlipCam along the way, but was still able to shot a few things with my blackberry. The really cool thing about Shanghai is that it sort of feels like Europe, but it's not Europe, it sort of feels like New York but it's not New ... (more)

An obligatory night shot here. I lost my cool little FlipCam along the way, but was still able to shot a few things with my blackberry. The really cool thing about Shanghai is that it sort of feels like Europe, but it's not Europe, it sort of feels like New York but it's not New ... (more)

Standing here in front of the Shanghai Stock Exchange. Got some information on background, and drew the interest of a security guard when I snapped a pic of the ticker sign inside. :-) ... (more)

Standing here in front of the Shanghai Stock Exchange. Got some information on background, and drew the interest of a security guard when I snapped a pic of the ticker sign inside. :-) ... (more)

This is my first trip to Shanghai and I was left speechless by mid-afternoon yesterday. Those who know me would say this was some sort of great miracle. I won't try to summarize it here, and will refrain from the cliches you've all heard a hundred times. The city is overwhelming in... (more)

This is my first trip to Shanghai and I was left speechless by mid-afternoon yesterday. Those who know me would say this was some sort of great miracle. I won't try to summarize it here, and will refrain from the cliches you've all heard a hundred times. The city is overwhelming in... (more)

Morning Rush High Rises Customer Visit - Happy Faces! Street Scene ... (more)

Morning Rush High Rises Customer Visit - Happy Faces! Street Scene ... (more)

People have been trying to draw facile comparisons of Beijing to Shanghai and of the two cities to US cities, eg is the "Washington" and Shanghai the "New York" of China. As the kids say, whatever. The two cities, as with all great cities, are unique. I do know that at least one ... (more)

People have been trying to draw facile comparisons of Beijing to Shanghai and of the two cities to US cities, eg is the "Washington" and Shanghai the "New York" of China. As the kids say, whatever. The two cities, as with all great cities, are unique. I do know that at least one ... (more)

If you're going to record your trip, you might as well humiliate yourself early and often. This moment taken just before we hit the road from the VanceInfo CDC to another meeting... ... (more)

If you're going to record your trip, you might as well humiliate yourself early and often. This moment taken just before we hit the road from the VanceInfo CDC to another meeting... ... (more)

Had a nice, long discussion with Michael Zhang, head of the VanceInfo TIBCO China Development Center (CDC). Located in the "ZPark" software park in suburban Beijing in a Chinese version of a Silicon Valley setting, the CDC's 200 engineers are a unique resource, Zhang says. And on... (more)

Had a nice, long discussion with Michael Zhang, head of the VanceInfo TIBCO China Development Center (CDC). Located in the "ZPark" software park in suburban Beijing in a Chinese version of a Silicon Valley setting, the CDC's 200 engineers are a unique resource, Zhang says. And on... (more)

We met with one of the most respected IT editors in China, Li WeiZhong, whose eManufacturing reaches more than 300,000 people. He noted that the manufacturing sector in China trails only financial services and telco in the private sector, and has very strong growth forecast for t... (more)

Another one of those ubiquitous Christmas trees, as we prepare to meet some local IT execs in the early evening. ... (more)

So I was involved in some discussions about high-level enterprise IT with half a dozen people in Beijing. I had the help of an interpreter, although everyone involved had a good grasp of English and had been to North America at least once. I noted how NOW Magazine has a mission t... (more)

Have to prove I'm in Beijing, right? This should do it. We're in early morning traffic on the way to our first meeting of the day. ... (more)

The ubiquity of Christmas trees, Santa Claus, and reindeer continues to crack me up. Everyone tells me they don't really celebrate Christmas in China, but they think the trees are beautiful and the Santas are cute. People here don't even do extra shopping--meaning they don't embr... (more)

"So what do you do if a vendor comes in tells you it will take 18 to 24 months for your new deployemtn," I asked a group of industry people today. The question was followed by the expected gales of laughter. "I think most people would tell this vendor 'bye bye'" was the most prin... (more)