Top of the Great Era

Chapter 1776 Separation of Reading and Writing
For Ziweixing, Damai.com is just an inconspicuous small website. When Zhou Buqi stood up and said a word, the other party had no room to refute.

No way, this is the strength of giants and the cruelty of business.

Even Silicon Valley is the same.

For example, in the previous life, Facebook spent US$10 billion to acquire Intasgram, the business case behind this transaction is actually very simple.

Zuckerberg asked his team to develop a product that was almost identical to Intasgram.

Then, he took the product, went to Intasgram's entrepreneurial team with a smile, and showed it to them.Needless to say, let them choose by themselves.

pick one of two.

Or, sell Intasgram to Facebook, and everyone unites to do business together.

Or, Facebook puts its own developed products online, fully exerts its strength in the image social field, and spends money and resources to compete with Intasgram.

Then the team at Intasgram backed down and sold the company to Facebook.

Ziwei Star owns Douban, which has opened an online ticketing service.

If Damai.com doesn’t sell it and angers Boss Zhou, and Ziweixing spends money and resources to develop Douban’s ticketing system, Damai.com will undoubtedly die.

There is a chance of merger, of course, is the best choice.

For Zhou Buqi, this is just a trivial matter.

In comparison, it was not as important as Tang Yixin moving into his apartment.I wanted to meet her, chat with her, and talk about the planned three-year cooperation, but suddenly received a call from the company. Cheng Binghao said that he had something very important to discuss with him.

It was past 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and Zhou Buqi didn't delay, and hurried back to the company.

After passing by, I found that He Yang was also there, discussing something with Cheng Binghao.

Zhou Buqi pushed the door open and walked in, smiled casually and said, "What are you talking about?"

"Oh, here we come." He Yang got up and greeted him, "Talking about Gome, Gome's current CIO is my former subordinate at Lenovo, and he led the team to build Gome's internal digital system."

Zhou Buqi raised his eyebrows, "Gome is also an e-commerce business?"

He Yang said: "No, but he has this intention. It's a pity that Mr. Huang was arrested. Gome should focus on stability now. The transformation from offline to online is not easy."

Zhou Buqi sat down carelessly, glanced at Cheng Binghao's secretary who was standing at the door, a mediocre elder sister in her 40s, and said with a smile, "A bottle of iced Coke!"

The eldest sister was a little funny.

I feel that this big boss is like his own son, and he is indeed a young man.

After sitting down, Zhou Buqi said casually: "Sooner or later, Gome will also transform into an e-commerce business. This is inevitable. Lao Huang has been arrested, and Gome is now falling behind!"

Cheng Binghao said: "Yes, so Suning's offline competition pressure has become smaller, and it has become more confident. This is also related to the layout of the previous few years."

"Oh?"

"Five years ago, Gome took the lead, claiming to invest 5 billion to change the rules of the home appliance market, and poached Lao Yu, the vice president in charge of information technology, from Lenovo... the same subordinate Boss He just mentioned... and started internal informatization. Gome is taking the route of self-research. Suning is the complete opposite. The investment in self-research is too high and the results are slow. Suning took a shortcut and chose to reach a five-year strategic cooperation with IBM and SAP , the total investment is only 26 million yuan.”

"5 years..."

Zhou Buqi speculated on this number.

Not so good!

Five years ago, Suning reached a cooperation with IBM, and the cooperation period was five years.It's due this year!Suning has two choices, either to renew the contract or not to renew the contract.

It is now October, and it is estimated that the two parties have completed the contract renewal.

Cheng Binghao went on to say: "In the past five years of cooperation, what IBM helped Suning transform is enterprise management, process change, IT management and other solutions that can help Suning improve the level of enterprise management applications. SAP provides information-based logistics. system solutions."

Zhou Buqi understood immediately, "This is a B-end business. IBM and SAP are world-class giants. It is right to ask them for help. The cost is indeed less than self-developed, and the effect is more significant."

In the field of B-end business, the country lags behind too much, or giants such as IBM, Oracle, and SAP are too strong, and the world's top 500 companies are all their customers.

IBM helped Suning transform its internal management system, and SAP helped transform its external logistics system, which can indeed play a very good role.However, this is all B-side business.

For example, the logistics system developed by SAP is from the manufacturer to the supplier, and the supplier sends it to the offline store. This is B2B logistics.From offline stores to consumers.

This is completely different from the C-end business.

For example, JD Logistics, which directly delivers goods to consumers, is oriented to individuals, and is B2C, which will be more complicated in terms of computing power, complexity, and process details, and traditional IT solutions will not work.

Zhou didn't understand it because he was an Internet expert.

I'm afraid those people in Suning don't understand!

Sure enough, the next thing I heard was very bad news from Cheng Binghao, "In the past five years, Suning has had a very pleasant cooperation with IBM and SAP. Get rid of it. So, Suning can set aside more energy to do other things, to compete with JD.com, Amazon, and Yixun in the online 5C home appliance market. In February this year, Suning.com was officially launched.”

Zhou Buqi felt sad, "Suning has already signed a contract with them?"

Cheng Binghao sighed, and said: "Well, I signed it. They adopted the solution of IBM's WCS framework. The logistics system still cooperates with SAP."

Zhou Buqi actually has no business relationship with Suning.

I only met Suning's Mr. Zhang once, and I simply greeted him without shaking hands.

But even so, Zhou Buqi was very sad.

Ugh!
The boss is late!

It's a pity to see domestic companies being cheated by foreign giants, but not being able to stop them in time.If it's a state-owned enterprise, it's fine. It's been done several times, and he can't stop it even if he wants to. There's no way.But Suning is a private enterprise. If he intervenes early, he can still help Suning bail out of a potential crisis.

He Yang asked: "How about the WCS framework you mentioned?"

"Uh……"

Cheng Binghao's expression was complicated.

"what happened?"

He Yang doesn't quite understand that his usual work is more about enterprise management, process resolution, personnel relations, adjustment of organizational structure, etc., and has nothing to do with technology.In terms of understanding of IT technology, he may not be as good as Zhou Buqi.After all, he is old, not as young as Zhou Buqi, who learns things quickly.

Cheng Binghao said: "The technology of WCS is very backward. The architecture structure was formed in 98. It has been more than ten years, and the architecture structure has not been upgraded."

He Yang was stunned, "A technical solution more than ten years ago? Isn't it? No one at Suning understands technology? Is this a state-owned enterprise?"

No way, no one would believe this kind of thing.

But reality is so magical.

It's so easy for experts to bully outsiders.

"It's much more serious than state-owned enterprises. 12306 has so many problems and has been complained about so seriously, but 12306 is not as exaggerated as Suning." Cheng Binghao then said a little more professional analysis, "WCS architecture is based on traditional E** and Strictly coupled WebSpere application server. Simply put, as long as the WCS framework is used, it means that it is tied to IBM. JDK, Unix, etc."

He Yang asked: "Compared with our school group buying?"

"Ah?" Cheng Binghao was amused, "That is not a product of one era at all, it has spanned at least three eras, just like F14 and F22, how can it be compared? Just to give an example, the most popular big data The processing solution is distributed. In this regard, Ziwei Star has the world's leading technology. However, there was no such thing as distributed more than ten years ago. The WCS architecture still used the early E** and MQ technologies, which would lead to A lot of extra overhead wastes a lot of computing power and storage space. Even the WCS architecture doesn't even have read-write separation, um... this is very similar to 12306, and it's the lowest-end technology that has been eliminated."

Zhou Buqi is curious about the technical field and asked: "What is the logic of reading and writing separation?"

Cheng Binghao said: "For example, if you buy an Aster mobile phone on JD.com and open the webpage to browse, this is reading. When you place an order to buy, you are writing, and writing the required data into the background database. When reading, if you make a mistake, you will make a mistake. The webpage cannot be opened. If there is an error in the writing process, it will affect the background data. Now JD.com needs to adjust its structure, part of the reason is that it cannot separate reads and writes.”

Zhou Buqi said: "Writing requires more computing power and higher precision."

"Yes," Cheng Binghao made a simple description, "For example, if the computing power of a system is 100, if it integrates reading and writing, and 90 people are browsing the web, the computing power of the system will be exhausted, and it will be very stuck. It is very difficult to place an order to buy. Reading and writing are separated, reading is a system, and writing is a system. There are 100 computing power respectively. There are 90 people browsing the web, which takes up resources for reading. Someone wants to download If you buy a single order and use the writing system, you won’t be disturbed by too much traffic, and you can easily complete the delicate process of placing an order and trading.”

Zhou Buqi understood it immediately, and said decisively: "All online trading platforms must be separated from reading and writing. Including writable social networking sites such as Friends.com and Weibo, they must also be designed with separation of reading and writing. Just do it."

"Yes, this is a major trend, but the technical difficulty is very high." Cheng Binghao shook his head, feeling very helpless, "Let's not talk about other types of websites, even if it is an online trading platform, there are only Taobao, Paipai, and Baidu in China. , Intramural group buying, Amazon, and eBay have used related technologies such as read-write separation, table splitting, and database clustering.”

"What about 12306?"

"Cough cough..."

(End of this chapter)