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Chapter 1092 The Burned Giant
"You really hit the nail on the head." Su Chen sighed.

If you put aside those special fields such as scientific research and military affairs, the earliest access to computers by Chinese people may be traced back to the early 80s. At that time, it was a great thing to have a computer in a factory area.

It is estimated that there are not many such places in colleges and universities.

They are all like baby bumps, and they have to take off their shoes when entering the computer room, and take all kinds of protection.

The computer is an imported product. The so-called learning computer at the beginning is nothing more than a few DOS instruction sets, familiarizing yourself with the operating system, and of course the core is to learn Chinese character input.

How many Chinese characters can be typed in one minute has become one of the key indicators to measure the level of a computer.

Especially after Lenovo's Chinese card came out, touch typing has become a rigid standard that must be mastered.

In fact, the operating system is just some program codes. According to the software development capabilities of these people Su Chen is now calling on, it is not difficult at all to create an operating system.

The point is that it is very difficult in many ways to successfully create an operating system ecosystem.

This cannot be achieved overnight, or simply by one or two companies.

The operating system is a product that is highly dependent on the software and hardware ecology. Microsoft has always turned a blind eye to the "piracy" phenomenon, and even "reverted" to piracy.

In fact, this is the behavior of strengthening market share, because only a sufficient user base, software and hardware manufacturers will be willing to adapt to your system.

So not only in China, even in countries with highly developed technologies such as Germany and Japan, they also do not have their own decent operating systems.

IBM is now able to compete with Microsoft. In 87, the world's latest top operating system was OS/2 jointly developed by IBM and Microsoft.

After entering the 90s.

As Microsoft focused more on Windows 3.0, while IBM continued to support OS/2 1.3, the two companies finally parted ways.

When IBM launched OS/2 2.0, the slogan at the time was "DOS better than DOS, Windows better than Windows."

In the subsequent battle for users, Windows took the lead, and x86 developers have also begun to use Windows as the priority development platform. OS/2 has only a few native applications left.

While OS/2 has found some niche in industry sectors such as banking, its usage is still declining year by year.

If Windows95 is released, OS/2 will really lose space.

Therefore, what needs to be done now is to burn more money, and whoever burns more money can gain living space.

Zhou Wei continued: "Although I don't know much about technology, I know that Microsoft is based on the X86 architecture, and you don't seem to plan to take this path. I don't know which one you plan to take?"

"I have a chip design company in my hand, which uses the ARM architecture as an embedded system." Su Chen simply explained, "Although the RISC architecture is indeed inferior to the x86 processor architecture dominated by Intel in some aspects, other areas are very practical.

From the speed control of the hard disk, the calculation of the telecommunication base station, the control of the injection engine of the car, the sound system, the camera engine, to the control of the electric equipment and so on. "

"If you say that, you already know it, right?" Zhou Wei said with a smile, "It seems that the biggest problem is burning money, burning an ecosystem before Microsoft and Intel."

"That's almost what it means." Su Chen said.

Although he knew it well, the most critical issue of burning money really couldn't be avoided in realization, because he planned to use the burning money as the basis to let the Linux system take charge of supercomputers and most of the servers.

At that time, the territory of the Linux Kingdom will definitely expand to the entire network system, and services that billions of people around the world cannot live without, such as search, shopping, and chat, will run on Linux. At that time, Microsoft will definitely kneel down.

To be honest, if you want to find a tool person, Su Chen thinks Zhou Wei is still very suitable.

As Zhou Wei himself said, his overall planning ability is not bad enough to be the current commander in chief.

However, Su Chen still examined him very seriously: "You just said about optimizing the team, but what kind of optimization method do you want?"

"Many high schools and universities are now involved. Although a team has been formed in a short period of time, I think it is not conducive to the later development, or it is not suitable at the beginning."

Zhou Wei said, "Because you borrowed these people, you still have to find a way to keep your own programmer team and eliminate all irrelevant ones, so as to keep the whole team motivated.

If they follow the rules of their qualifications, it is estimated that most people don't want to do it, and with so many people participating, it is not easy to fire people in the later stage, it is better to be this villain from the beginning. "

"Okay, you take the position of general manager." Su Chen made a direct decision, "I will fully cooperate with your work."

What is needed now is not a person who can make money, but a commander who can see the company's problems.

Only after laying a solid foundation can we start thinking about making money.

Zhou Wei went through the entry procedures very quickly. He just registered and transformed himself into the general manager of Pangu Technology.

The new official took office three fires, and he directly optimized the team in the first fire, giving some part-time scientific researchers two ways, either to join Pangu or to quit Pangu.

Because this company is a private enterprise, the two parties can only be regarded as a short-term cooperation, not a joint venture.

Going deeper, it is probably the same as an external team.

After eliminating many people, he adopted the form of outsourcing and handed over part of the code work to many research institutes.

Secondly, arrange for someone to go to the University of Helsinki in Northern Europe to find Linus Benadict Torvalds, the founder of the Linux system.

Although the latter didn't want to sell it at the time, it couldn't hold up its money-making ability.

When the person who came expressed that he would set up a Linux code development laboratory, he did ideological work for a long time, and finally made this young man who was inspired by the spirit of Richard Stallman, the father of free software, change his mind.

Linus is different from Bill Gates. The latter was born in a wealthy family and wanted to make a lot of money since he was a child; the former has a mediocre family economy, but in fact he was very tight for a long time.

His mother had to take the only investment—a share of Helsinki Telecom, which was worth only $500—to a pawn shop for cash.

And he bought his first computer in installments. If Su Chen hadn't arranged for someone to send a sum of money, he would have to pay it back in three years.

Zhou Wei sent people to Finland to ask Linus to assist in the establishment of the Finnish laboratory and hired him as a consultant. This is an affirmation of Linus.

On a global scale, countries with advanced computer technology have set up laboratories and invested heavily in introducing different companies or development teams to develop a variety of products.

From PC operating systems to search engines, Office, industrial software, etc., it is more adaptable to complex and diverse application scenarios, making it more vigorous.

After all, the operating system is an ecosystem, not a single piece of software.

It is possible to build a software by investing huge sums of money and setting up a project, but it is impossible to build an ecosystem.

This requires the continuous grinding and growth of the kernel, software, users, partners, industry chain, and business ecology in order to gradually mature.

This is a big gamble that burns money.

Zhou Wei burns money at the same speed as Su Chen, because only by throwing out a lot of money can more people be attracted to this new system.

For a time, the entire global IT industry was disturbed.

As the importance attached to intellectual property rights by American technology companies can be seen, they do not hesitate to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on copyright and patent litigation.

Before Su Chen could tell Zhou Wei, he directly burned money to set up the Global Legal Department, and hired lawyers with a lot of money to confess.

Therefore, within less than half a month after taking office, Zhou Wei replaced Su Chen and became a giant in China's software industry.

A giant made by burning money.

Even Yanagawa Shi was frightened by this young man who wasted so much money.

Seeing that Zhou Wei got started so quickly, Su Chen can rest assured to hand over the company to him for the time being.

This young man already has the foundation to be a businessman.

Anyway, don’t let this system, chip and ecosystem come out in a short time, all you have to do is keep an eye on it and wait patiently.

Time to come to May...

(End of this chapter)