Reboot 2003

Chapter 122 029: Softbank and Jinshan
……This?

Chen Qin was a little confused, Sun Zhengyi wanted to talk to him about ringtones?See you next month on the 18th?
And Ma Yun went to eat by himself after exchanging a few pleasantries, without even asking him if he would like to go...

It's normal to think about it.

Masayoshi Son’s name is of course known to everyone in the technology circle. The SoftBank Group behind him is the most steadfast believer in the Internet in this era. In addition to representing the expectations of oilmen and old real estate developers to invest in high-tech industries, they also indirectly control a large number of important resources in the communication and Internet fields of the previous era. To meet a small entrepreneur, you really don’t need to ask if the other party is willing to come.

As for this invitation...it should and indeed is a good thing.

Although he didn't say the reason, Ma Yun mentioned the name, Ut Starcom.

This may be relatively unfamiliar to young people in 2023, but most netizens should have seen the photo of the bearded Wu Ying with her arms around Erma's neck on the wine table.

And although the name of this company seems to be in foreign language, its products are well-known in China, that is, the famous "Little Smart"... So far, it is still the lifeline of Telecom that has not grabbed a license.

Recently, PHS has just spread across the country. From the perspective of the future, the future of this lightweight product has not yet come to an end, or even reached its peak. However, due to the backward technology, the product prospect is not very promising. The stock price of UtStarcom has been sluggish recently, and Sun Zhengyi seems to be worried about the future of his big disciple.

In this case, CRBT looks like a panacea that can attract a wave of business. No matter how we want to cooperate in the future, it is necessary to understand the industry situation with Galaxy Software, an early player.

Chen Qin smacked his lips, his brain was still a little confused for a moment.

Things are good, but how will he go?
Of course, there is no need to worry too much about this question, and Xiao Yang has already replied, saying that Mr. Lei from Jinshan is also there, how can we contact him?
Let's talk about it all at once.

Compared with Masayoshi Son, Lei is always really unassuming these days. Chen Qin said let's talk over the internet, I'm very busy.

Xiao Yang said that the other party was not using this software yet, and the other party said to wait a moment.

Chen Qin flipped through the files for a while, and after 10 minutes, there was a default avatar ID to add him.

"Hi, hello, is this Galaxy Software? I am Lei Jun from Kingsoft."

A slightly nervous young man with a friendly voice came from the opposite side.

Chen Qin almost couldn't hold back his laughter: "Lei Hou, Mr. Lei, are you still off work?"

"Hehe, isn't this a special trip waiting for you, Mr. Chen, you are from Guangdong Province, I have admired you for a long time!"

"Where is it, Boss Lei has been admired for a long time!"

Lei Jun was certainly not the CEO of Xiaomi in 2004, but he was the general manager of Jinshan.

At this time, he was not a star entrepreneur of mobile phones, but a veteran of the IT industry... After all, although Lei Jun himself is young and kind, he looks a little funny.

But he is indeed one of the first wave of IT people in China. He was writing textbooks for programmers when he was in college. He joined Jinshan Company with his skills and immediately became the actual helm of Jinshan. Although he is not very old now, even Zhang Chaoyang will call him senior when he comes. He is also the programmer idol with the strongest aura among active chess players.

Of course, now is not the time to chase stars. After all, although Lei Jun is an old man, he is also one of the most famous programmers in China, but Internet business is not a forum for programmers after all. The real winners should be entrepreneurs with strategic vision like Ma Yun and Ma Huateng. Most of the programmers who worked alone have died in the last wave of bubbles.

Although Mr. Lei himself was the proponent of the theory of "Flying Pigs in the Wind", he has not caught up with a few good winds now - and Jinshan is now in this embarrassing situation.

Jinshan Company started with the office software wps. When Qiu Bojun first wrote wps, Microsoft Office hadn't been released yet. Unfortunately, they couldn't make a few cents from the office software. Later, they caught up with the anti-virus software.

However, the market for anti-virus software is still too limited after all. Later, Kingsoft wrote a bunch of stand-alone games in order to support their families, and because of the impact of piracy, they did not make much money in the end.

Time has entered the Internet era, and Lei Jun learned from Amazon to engage in e-commerce. He has been doing excellence since 2000, but after two years of tossing and frothing, he failed to make it.

At the same time, a large group of Internet newcomers including Netease begged him to buy it, Lei Jun didn't like it, but Netease made a lot of money by taking the online game route. Later, Lei Jun asked Ding Sanshi to go to Jinshan for class, and Ding Sanshi turned around and ran away.

In the end, he chopped off the stand-alone version of JX3 and made it into JX.com, and his income couldn't even keep up with Netease's fraction, but it made Kingsoft finally drink the life-saving soup from the wind.

Of course, Kingsoft’s thinking is still very clear. Now they are refactoring the code of the office software wps. Kingsoft has risen through office software, and it will also need to use office software to go public in the future.

But just like Chen Qin’s Galaxy software, no matter how lofty the dream is, it still needs food and water to support itself. Today’s Jinshan Company is like a down-and-out adult who mixes with a group of children and fights with them for candy, clumsily imitating the childish actions of children, and blindly chasing the future trend.

"Mr. Chen, your Kuaikan platform is really amazing. I heard that it has been sold abroad, and you have made money from foreign countries through patent licensing, and your Galaxy software is also very powerful... In just half a year, there are so many users of those products."

Lei Jun praised him sincerely, but Chen Qin didn't want to talk about it with him.

He was very happy to be blown rainbow fart by Ma Yun, and he was not very afraid of Tencent coming, but he was very vigilant when he was praised by Lei Jun... Now that the two parties are in the same industry, and Jinshan is even in the business of video players, it is necessary to have a sense of confidentiality in this business line.

Chen Qin went straight to business: "Mr. Lei, I heard that you are engaged in SP?"

Lei Jun immediately said: "Yes, we are working on this recently. In addition to the SMS SP qualification, we will be able to obtain the Java Treasure Box qualification from China Mobile in about two weeks. I heard that you have done a good job in developing ring tones recently, so Mr. Gu who watched it a few days ago told me that I think we can actually cooperate."

Chen Qin asked back: "Wait a minute, don't you have the qualifications for ring tones?"

Lei Jun replied: "We Jinshan is a software company after all, CRBT is not our main business, what we got is the SP of Java application, I think your galaxy software is also engaged in software, we can cooperate more in this area, the qualification review is still very strict, our company can help you release java software, games can also..."

"No." Chen Qin directly interrupted him, "Our company is not interested in China Mobile's current Java platform, nor does it plan to do so."

Lei Jun was a little confused, and tried to dissuade him: "Mr. Chen, please listen to it first! Although this Java Treasure Box is a new channel, I think downloading third-party software with mobile phones is a revolutionary breakthrough. You must know the software ecology. The more people use this third-party store, the more prosperous the market will be. If you can improve the ecology, everyone will benefit from it, and your galaxy company's main business is software. I think this road is more promising than CRBT..."

Chen Qin didn't let go at all, and directly rejected Lei Jun's invitation: "Don't say any more, Mr. Lei, we have no plan to enter the third-party application channel at all. If you have to do this, then we can only go our separate ways."

(End of this chapter)