Rebirth 98, the rise started from ripping off Microsoft

Chapter 498 Capital Crime and Justice

America.

new York.

Armonk City.

The moonlight at three o'clock in the morning is accompanied by snowflakes falling quietly.

"Jingle Bell……"

rich area.

a residence somewhere.

bedroom.

The phone rang suddenly.

On the bed, Samuel Palmisano was in a deep sleep, tossing and turning in a daze.

The ringing kept ringing, and he finally got impatient and groped like a blind man to grab the phone by the bedside.

"what's up?"

A voice came from the opposite side, murmuring a few words.

After Samuel Palmisano heard this, he was immediately refreshed and lost all sleepiness.

He sat up from the bed at once, and said in surprise: "Now?"

The person opposite said, "Yes."

"In that case, book me a ticket at four o'clock immediately, and I'll head to Chicago right away."

After Samuel Palmisano answered the phone, he immediately left the warm bed with strong willpower.A gust of cold wind blew in through the window, making him shiver involuntarily.

His wife was woken up by the sound of him getting up, and complained dissatisfiedly: "What time is it? What are you doing?"

She turned her head to look out of the window and said, "It's not dawn yet, is there anything we can't wait for tomorrow?"

Samuel Palmisano coaxed his wife with an apologetic face: "The company is in a hurry, and I have to go to Chicago. You know, I have just been promoted to the head of the Global Services Department not long ago, and I have to make some achievements. , otherwise you won’t be able to rule the employees below. It’s three o’clock in the morning, if you’re sleepy, go to sleep, dear.”

After saying this, Samuel Palmisano quickly sat up from the bed and walked to the bathroom. Although his mind was still dizzy, his consciousness had already begun to become clear.

With 13 employees, IBM's International Computer Services Division is the fastest-growing division of IBM. If the previous head hadn't retired due to health problems, Samuel Palmisano would never have had the opportunity to take charge of such a division. A core department related to the future of the company.

His wife got up to help pack the luggage, and Samuel Palmisano called the full-time driver assigned to him by the company.Taking advantage of the time when the driver hadn't arrived, Samuel Palmisano hurried to wash up.

In the bathroom, looking at his aging self in the mirror, Samuel Palmisano looked awe-inspiring.

He has always been a man full of fighting spirit and execution, just like those traditional white elites.

Cold and shrewd, he excelled in both his savage physique and his cunning intellect.

While attending Johns Hopkins University, he was a star player on the school's American football team.

After graduation, he also brought the wild and ruthless style cultivated in the team to IBM.

All the way from the bottom of the sales, and then experienced the IBM island branch, IT services, PC business department and mainframe department and other departments.When Gerstner's predecessor, John Ackles, was an executive assistant, he was called "the best assistant" by the latter.

It took him 27 years to get to where he is now.

But even so, Samuel Palmisano was not satisfied. After all, the old Roosevelt became the president of the United States when he was 42 years old, and he was almost 50 years old, and he did not become the CEO of IBM.

He feels that there is still a huge room for improvement in his life.

It is this ambition that urges him to forge ahead in his career.

Soon, the driver drove the car to his door.

Samuel Palmisano kissed his wife goodbye at the entrance, then turned and walked into the snowflakes.

On the way to the airport, deputy Gooden Miles called and said, "VALinux's plans are in trouble."

The two have worked together for many years, and Samuel Palmisano has always trusted Gordon Myers very much, but the VA Linux plan is too important to be missed.He frowned and asked excitedly, "What's going on? What happened?"

There was a reason why he was so excited.

If you want to climb up in IBM, especially for someone with no background like him, the only way is to make real achievements.

Not just to make money, but to fight IBM's haters.

Therefore, as a company that purely operates the Linux business, VA Linux entered Samuel Palmisano's vision more than a year ago.

This small company has huge potential and value, because it may break Microsoft's monopoly on PC-side operating software.

Therefore, VA Linux is regarded by Samuel Palmisano as a hidden trump card in his hand, which is related to his future destiny, so it must not be lost.

Now that he heard that something went wrong with the plan, he was of course very nervous.

Gordon Miles could only explain in a low voice: "The stock of VA Linux has been acquired in large quantities secretly, and the other party paid a large sum of money and directly bought about 30% of the original shares. I only recently learned about it from Torvalds. Knowing this, not only him, but also many insiders of VA Linux sold their shares in advance.”

"What? These idiots!"

Samuel Palmisano was so excited that he almost jumped up, his head hit the roof of the car, and there was a loud noise, which distorted his face, and he couldn't help but let out a muffled snort.

On the other end of the phone, Gordon Myers asked: "I know they are stupid, but now that the deal is done, it's useless to fire them. The important thing is, what should we do now?"

Samuel Palmisano took a deep breath to calm himself down and avoid high blood pressure.He thought for a while and asked, "Do you know who bought these shares?"

Regarding this issue, there is no need for Samuel Palmisano to remind him. Gordon Miles has already investigated it clearly.He said: "It's a rich man from the East. I heard that his surname is Lu. He is the man from Xia who had a hot relationship with Bill Gates before. The MP3 produced by his company defeated the Imperial League, and he even had a relationship with the American record industry. The association has reached a cooperation."

After hearing this, Samuel Palmisano immediately cursed: "Damn Torvalds! What kind of shit liberal Pope, does he have shit in his head?"

After cursing several times in a row, Samuel Palmisano vented his anger. What he is most worried about now is to let Bill Gates get the wind in advance, so the plan will be full of variables.

After finally calming down, Samuel Palmisano sighed and said, "It seems that I have to have a serious talk with this mysterious rich man from the East."

At the same time, Linus Benedict Torvalds, the founder of VA Linux, the "Pope of Liberalism" who has subverted the world, and the software genius Linus Benedict Torvalds are sitting in front of the computer screen, and the bosom friend Lu Yiming who is far away across the ocean. Stay up late chatting.

Torvalds was flushed with excitement at this time, breathing quickly, and said to Lu Yiming on the other end: "Lu, your thoughts are really surprising."

Lu Yiming said: "For the Internet, free is the future, so this social software I made is free for life. Next, I plan to make a free antivirus software, so that those who only try their best to monopolize the market To hell with software companies."

Torvalds laughed when he heard the words: "You have the same thoughts as me! Lu, let us challenge the decaying old order together. They have been in that position for too long."

Although he is 30 years old, Torvalds is obviously still in the second grade as he was more than ten years ago. His mind is full of open source and free, and he wants to break the monopoly and blockade of commercial companies such as Microsoft on the virtual world.

Lu Yiming's social software MM is very attractive to him, and he is even willing to sell part of the original VA Linux shares in his hand to Lu Yiming.

Of course, the price Lu Yiming gave was not low, at least not when buying it.

Both of them play programming and have similar values, so naturally they chatted happily.

But Lu Yiming quickly sent a message: "Sorry, I have to answer the phone first, and we can talk later."

After finishing chatting with Linus Benedict Torvalds, Lu Yiming picked up his mobile phone and found a long string of numbers on it.

Obviously, this is not a serious phone number.

However, if you call at this point, it's either a scam or something urgent.

Lu Yiming is more inclined to the latter.

He pressed the answer button.

"hello?"

The caller was Samuel Palmisano, who introduced himself as the head of IBM Global Services.

As soon as Lu Yiming heard Samuel Palmisano's self-report, he immediately guessed his intention of calling.

It is nothing more than asking about the purchase of shares in VALinux.

Lu Yiming pretended to be stupid, and said following Samuel Palmisano's words: "I am not a client of IBM, what service can you provide me?"

Samuel Palmisano didn't point it out directly, but said coldly: "It depends on whether you, Mr. Lu, want to be IBM's friend or IBM's enemy."

Lu Yiming laughed and said, "Sir, can I think you are threatening me?"

Facing the giant IBM, Lu Yiming did not panic at all, and said calmly: "I am neither a friend of anyone, nor have I ever thought of becoming an enemy of anyone. I only want to be friends with interests."

These words are so capitalist that Samuel Palmisano, an old fritter who has been struggling in the world of free capital for decades, can't help being shocked.

Undoubtedly, Samuel Palmisano is a very smart person, and he understood the implication of Lu Yiming's words in an instant.

His face softened slightly, and he said, "So, you won't destroy my original plan because of your friendship with Mr. Bill Gates?"

Lu Yiming asked back: "Are you talking about the free and open source of VALinux?"

When Samuel Palmisano heard what Lu Yiming said, his expression froze.

"You really know everything!"

Lu Yiming laughed: "Please, this doesn't seem to be a secret, does it? After all, Torvalds wanted to create a rebellion against Microsoft. He never concealed it from anyone, but showed it off everywhere. I don't know if that's a strange thing." ?”

Samuel Palmisano's face turned dark, and he scolded Torvalds bloody again in his heart, then quickly adjusted his mood, and said to Lu Yiming: "Although this matter is not a secret, at least Bill Guy Ci didn't know that IBM was behind it."

Lu Yiming teased: "So, you entered the village secretly, so you don't want to shoot?"

Samuel Palmisano looked puzzled.

"what?"

"It's nothing, you continue."

Samuel Palmisano snorted softly and said, "Do you want to object to this plan?"

To the surprise of Samuel Palmisano, Lu Yiming said without hesitation: "Of course, after all, everyone in the United States knows that Bill Gates is my brother and sister, my dear relatives and friends. It's real than real gold."

Samuel Palmisano frowned and said, "Are you really going to choose IBM as an enemy?"

Lu Yiming immediately smiled and said, "No, I mean, I have to pay more."

After hanging up the phone, Samuel Palmisano lay on the chair with complicated emotions. He never thought that a person could be so shameless.

But because of this, he became more and more afraid of Lu Yiming, a mysterious oriental rich man.

Kneading his eyebrows, Samuel Palmisano suddenly felt very tired and tired.

Why is it that other people's children are already all-powerful in the business field just after finishing high school, while my son, who is about to graduate from college, basically spends his daily time picking up girls and playing basketball?
It's like comparing people to people, and comparing goods to others, you have to throw them away.

China Sea.

Xiaoshan Airport.

Lu Yiming came over to see Li Yiwen off in person.

Lu Yiming grabbed some sand from the ground and said to Li Yiwen: "Cousin, I would rather love a piece of land in my hometown than ten thousand taels of gold from another country."

Li Yiwen was not polite at all, and directly patted the sand off Lu Yiming's hand, and said with a smile: "You are almost done, give me this trick again! The winter vacation TV station will not rebroadcast "Journey to the West"!"

"Come on, stop talking nonsense, cousin, are you sure you really want me to go? This matter is too big, and I don't know what to do."

With a business of 20 billion US dollars, how can he not panic?
He hasn't been able to sleep soundly for several days. If this matter goes wrong, he might regret it for the rest of his life.

Lu Yiming didn't panic at all, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, I've already taken care of IBM for you in advance. After you go, call Lao Peng directly, and he will take care of everything. It’s enough to be mainly responsible for tracking.”

Li Yiwen frowned, lost in thought.

After a while, he looked at Lu Yiming with an unfriendly expression: "Why do you say that I feel like an ancient supervising army? Besides, it seems that the eunuchs are responsible for this kind of thing, right?"

Lu Yiming said: "Be more confident, remove the 'as if'."

Li Yiwen turned around and left.

Lu Yiming waved goodbye: "Cousin, have a good trip!"

Li Yiwen turned around and scolded: "The plane takes off against the wind, it's terrible to be uneducated."

Li Yiwen turned around and got on the private jet, embarking on the journey.

Zhonghai in December is colder than in November.

However, the A-shares became hot because of Lu Yiming's wave of "God's predictions". Retail investors in the market have full confidence in the young new stock gods, especially the stocks that Lu Yiming suggested Chen Li to buy are now even more popular. Very wide, one share is hard to find.

And the four characters of "value investment", accompanied by Lu Yiming's double titles of "richest man" and "stock god", blew across the land of Xia Guo like a spring breeze.It has even developed to the point where even grandparents in the streets and alleys can chat a few words casually to show how "profound" and "professional" their knowledge of the stock market is.

But at this time, Lu Yiming was participating in the biggest speculative feast in history.

The United States at this moment has gathered the eyes of countless ambitious people, and everyone intends to get what they want from it.

Money, fame, power, and even an illusory sense of accomplishment.

In 1991, eight years ago, the 21-year-old king of geeks, Torvalds, who was a student at the University of Helsinki in Finland at the time, accidentally created the little toy Linux.

At that time, no one could have predicted that it would now be used as a weapon for "killing people for profit", and more importantly, no one could have imagined that it would eventually become a belief in instigating "jihad" in the virtual world.

Although he was already familiar with this period of history in his heart, it still felt extraordinary to Lu Yiming to witness the miracle happen.

In fact, at the beginning, Linux was not particularly popular. To a large extent, it was just a plaything for self-entertainment in the hands of a group of senior programmers and enthusiasts.

Of course, this plaything has some characteristics that later seemed extremely important: free, open source code, free to copy, modify and spread.It is these characteristics that enable it to be endowed with all kinds of strange teachings, gradually sanctified, and spread rapidly.

Whether or not a thing has value, or how much it is worth, depends largely on how rich people think of it, just as how much an animal is worth depends on how much a "gourmet" intends to spend to eat it.

As a software tool, after it spent a long and lonely 'childhood', until now, under the secret leadership of IBM, the open source Linux has finally attracted the attention of Wall Street and some commercial enterprises, just as the Internet once that attention.

The current US stock market and the frothy Internet have been given the lofty mission of economics. Linux, this ordinary-looking stunted "girl", was suddenly discovered to have a special potential in her body.

Just like using the Internet to rewrite economics has brought endless opportunities, Linux also implies another attractive possibility-to become the "gravedigger" of Windows!
Soon, such remarks began to spread, causing the hearts of countless people to beat violently.

Think about it, digging the tomb of Windows, in layman's terms, doesn't it mean that the wealth held by Microsoft can be redistributed?

At a time when Microsoft was basically equivalent to a mint, to carve up Microsoft was to carve up wealth and rob banks.Now that we already know that there are many treasures hidden in that tomb, betting on the "gravedigger" Linux is nothing more than betting on those treasures that still belong to Microsoft.

Moreover, the rich never mind spending some money on a glamorous coat for speculation.Therefore, it is a capital crime for gangsters to rob cash transport vehicles with weapons, and it is justice for rich people to carve up Microsoft with Linux.

　There is only one chapter today.

　　The reason is that I went back to my hometown to have dinner.

　　Food poisoning.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)