Reboot 2003

Chapter 249 028: Cloud Computing ([-]-in-[-])

After talking to Mr. Li, Chen Qin looked at a few more forms, flipped through the ppts from the meeting two days ago, went to the internal open source library to look at the progress of several projects, and reviewed the information sent by Waibo netizens. Beautiful pictures, finally returned to that social game...

I just told Mr. Li that I just had too much money and nowhere to spend it, and that was actually true.

This year is 2008. He has been reborn for more than four years and has made more than 100 billion... or in US dollars, which is probably the standard level for reborn people.

And next...not to mention so much money, one day for a Bentley would be enough to buy him a hundred years old.

Finance is the center of social wealth distribution. If you just want to make money, there seems to be no need to go elsewhere.

But he had considered this issue before - after all, the real world is not a game, and money is not just a number in the game; in the past it was a general equivalent, and of course it is now, but the essence behind it is 'credit'.

Without corresponding credit, you can't get money even if you have it, and short selling is a business that is completely harmful to social production and is an outrageous business everywhere.

The example of the first brother in private equity is vivid in my mind. This is an issue that must be considered. Although Meilijian’s financial supervision is relatively weak, there are not many. Even if some small tricks can work for a while, there will always be Something unplanned happened, and if he, a 12-year-old kid, really ran out and took the money and bought a Bentley in one day...

What will happen then?Although there is no guarantee that something will happen, it is still a bit suspenseful.

So since the shooting last year, Chen Qin already knew what he should do.

As I said before, do some charity, invest in some non-profit projects, strive for some grandiose reputation, and use it when you don’t know when you need it... Of course you can, even if it is just a show, you have to show it. Being able to use wealth for society is the only way for the rich to make wealth a consensus acceptable to others.

But this is the behavior of a weak person. As a reborn person, of course you have to pursue higher things.

That may be called power, but of course it cannot be called power entirely. Today’s world is a system completely based on a globalized market economy. Social production is the root of everything, whether it is politics, culture or even ideology. At the most basic level, They all appear small and powerless in front of social production.

If you can occupy a position here, you will get stronger consensus and credibility than any power. Thinking of this, Boss Chen will naturally look back at his business - in today's era, the Internet is the most leading productivity , and he is in this country that is taking off, and the Internet is undoubtedly one of the most critical components...

Before the bubble burst in 00, Silicon Valley's GDP was roughly equivalent to one-third of China's entire national GDP. By 2023, the Internet will account for more than one-third of China's economy. From this perspective, now He is indeed on the right track.

So now, what he has to do doesn't seem complicated. In fact, he just needs to maintain the status quo. Recently, Galaxy Software has encountered some problems, such as problems with the local disk of the software, streaming media players, input methods, and browsers. , Software Manager... Recently, other competing products have appeared one after another, and the market share has been affected.

In addition, the ringtone market is declining, and Galaxy Music’s revenue is not as high as it was in previous years.

But other fields are gradually growing. The first is of course the mobile Internet - the sales volume of Guazi mobile phones is not very high, but considering the pricing, in fact, as long as it can be sold, it is considered a win, and with this pioneering brand, it can be considered a win. Half a foot into the manufacturing industry...

Manufacturing is great.

Why is it so good? The upstream and downstream are clear, the cash flow is stable, there are jobs and taxes, and the benefits to society can be seen at a glance.

It’s a bit embarrassing for the elite talents from the 80s to still be boasting about traditional manufacturing in 2023. However, mobile phones are now the trump card industry, so why do we need bicycles?Even if Chen Qin is too young to do it, Galaxy is no longer his own company. Recently, the first generation of melon seeds have performed well in the market. Zhao Shiqiang and the others are even preparing to build a factory in Shanghai.

Of course, this work is not done by Chen Qin himself after all, and it is still in the early stage of the industry - it is not that the industry cannot make money in the early stage, but there is such a 'market education period'. If a product can meet user needs and has excellent quality, it must first be Only when users know how good it is is it popular.Large-screen smartphones are now in the market education period. The problem during this period is that publicity and distribution are more important, and too high profit margins cannot be pursued for the time being. However, brand building in this process is often more effective with half the effort, and the current investment is certainly valuable.

What really makes money...is online advertising.

Weibo is becoming more and more popular. Although it is still not as popular as Facebook in Europe and the United States, it has surpassed Twitter in Japan and South Korea. After the wave of flash games, it is already the largest social network platform in China.

Due to the higher stickiness of social network users, this is an industry with real ecological barriers. In other words, unless Weibo becomes corrupt, users will not be attracted to other platforms.

In addition, there are Shuixie Getai, and a large number of P2P small video network clients that use crowd tactics, plus the Kuaiba platform that was recently split off, which basically accounts for half of China’s Internet advertising industry. .Nowadays, the company's advertising revenue is rising steadily, and this is just the beginning. After the capital boom begins in two years, a large wave of hot money will flow into the Internet advertising industry. The reasons are not listed for now, but this should It's something that will start within a year or two.

In addition to advertising, what is more important is investment.

idealab's model and investment seem to be a very good combination. Although it mainly relies on foresight and foresight, it is still useful. The companies it invested in two years ago are now gradually improving - of course, you can invest and exit to gain profits. Yes, it is more direct and effective to use investment to screen acquisitions and build your own ecological universe. In China, the Internet and market finance are twin brothers born almost at the same time.

Of course, this is not the most important reason why investing is important.

After all, for companies, profit is of course the goal, but just like if people want to live, they can’t just think about what to eat. They also need to think about where the air they breathe comes from and where they sleep at night.

On the surface, it is talent, capital, and goodwill, all related to investment.

The back side is public relations and social relations, among which there are many problems that companies alone cannot solve.

Judging from future experience, this matter still depends on local governments.Large-scale Internet companies are the apples of local governments' eyes. This is because the Internet itself has a siphon effect. For example, when businessmen across the country do business on Taobao, a large part of the jobs and tax revenue generated will be concentrated in Lin'an.

If you want to seize food from the tiger's mouth in other provinces, you will naturally need the support of local officials of the same level. If not, it is better to get relief early.

Fortunately, because of this siphon effect, local governments do favor Internet companies. With the recent decline of Shanda, Galaxy has become the big brother of Shanghai Internet.

At this time, if we make some more investments to support local Internet projects, it will be even better. If we are willing to invest in building a mobile phone assembly factory, Minister Bai will almost move his family downstairs to work as a security guard.

At this time, there are tax reductions and exemptions, loan discounts, and cooperation with local universities to cultivate talents. You don’t have to ask about these. Basically, you can get whatever you want. As for land approval for building buildings, of course you can also ask for it. I heard that Shanghai City has even given it recently. We are planning to launch a support project to allocate a piece of land and build an industrial park specifically for Galaxy Software...

Of course, the government also has requests - recently they want Xingxing to build a shopping website. They said that your Chimei website belongs to Yanjing and is not very beautiful. Can they move it to Shanghai?Sun Xiaomei has already agreed, but just said to wait and let's do it slowly.

Anyway...everything went well.

If there is anything not so good about it...

No, actually it can’t be considered bad.

From last year to this year, business has been booming, both in terms of expansion plans and profit prospects.

If there is any problem...

Chen Qin looked at his game character playing a Romanian Community Cup on the screen, held his chin in boredom, and turned his gaze to the window.

After going round and round... I ended up making money.

Not only are you making money now, but you will probably make more in the foreseeable future.

Although this is probably as natural as drinking water for a reborn person who has returned from entrepreneurship. When doing projects in the market, of course everything should be aligned with money. For commercial companies, profit is the goal and the most useful thing. management tools.

But what was the purpose in the first place?

Credit, power, value.

Compared with short selling on Wall Street, these more valuable businesses seem better. They play a real role in social production and they play a more indispensable role in the existing order.

But... how should I put it.

If it is an ordinary person, it is probably enough.

But after all, he is a reborn primary school student. To say that enough is almost enough, but he can indeed do more.

such as……

hum-

The phone rang suddenly.

I saw it was Guo Yang calling.

Chen Qin was lying in front of the computer thinking about something, but he still picked up: "What's wrong?"

"Chen Qin, what are you doing?"

"Staying at home."

"Do you want to play basketball?" Chen Qin was surprised: "Is there something wrong with you? You play basketball in such a cold weather?"

Guo Yang chuckled and said, "I see the snow on the basketball court has cleared up. I heard that the stations are all open today..."

"Didn't you go to Song Ziyun's house?"

"Yes, but I didn't have time to say anything. Ah Yue is still awesome. She used the computer to demonstrate our game to Song Ziyun's father, and also showed the news from the interview a few days ago. Now Song Ziyun is right next to us."

"So you said that's why you play basketball..."

"Otherwise, how do you think we called Song Ziyun out? It can't be said that we wanted to take him to the Internet cafe."

"Fine……"

Chen Qin had no choice but to go out anyway.

When I went out, I saw that my grandma was not watching American TV series today. It was almost the Chinese New Year. She was making rice cakes for the New Year.

"Grandma, do you want to buy something?"

"No!" Grandma's voice came from the kitchen, "By the way, has Xiao Yue gone home? I heard that the bus is open to traffic today."

"not yet."

"She hasn't gone home yet, so let her come home for a meal today! That poor child has been stuck in Longshan for so long during the perfect vacation..."

Chen Qin hummed, but thinking about these words, he went out to the intersection after a while, and saw three people waiting there - Song Ziyun, whom he hadn't seen for a few days, looked wilted, and Guo Yang was wearing a woolen coat. Wearing a hat and thick clothes, she was waiting on the roadside with a basketball tucked between her legs. Of course Ah Yue was there too. She had a short ponytail today. When she saw Chen Qin from a distance, she smiled and waved her hand.

"Song Ziyun's father told us that since we have received money from others, we should do good things for them."

On the way to school, Guo Yang said to Chen Qin, somewhat dumbfounded.

Ah Yue added: "But I'm not embarrassed to say that we usually work upstairs in the Internet cafe. I'm afraid Uncle Song will beat me..."

"Actually, that's right. After all, I've become accustomed to writing copywriting with pen and paper recently." Song Ziyun didn't hesitate for a long time. He immediately took out a composition book from his pocket, "Actually, I've recently added some skills from the general group. , don’t you want to take a look?”

The three of them took it and took a look. He actually wrote a lot at home, and it seemed that he really didn't forget about business.

But he was still late after all - "This is the move copy to enrich the weapon skills. In fact, this has been done before. Guo Yang has already written what you need after you were detained, because they are all basic skills. Animator After everything is done there, it will be updated directly into the game..."

"Hey, it's okay, this is mine." Song Ziyun said openly, "Since this is no longer needed, I will start writing other things as planned. Do I want to try the copywriting I mentioned last time when the character was idle?"

A Yue said: "No need, after all, the skills are not too few. The way to develop our game is to collect skills. Launching a little bit every time it is updated should be a good way to maintain the vitality of the players. There are people from the cloud service station to help , we don’t have to do much..."

The four of them talked and arrived at the school auditorium. There was a basketball stand in the auditorium. It was not open to the public during the holidays, but Chen Qin had acquaintances here, and it was always a little warmer than outside now.

On the basketball court, Guo Yang and Chen Qin were clattering basketballs and practicing shooting, but they were still talking about the game.

Chen Qin made a basket, turned around and said to Song Ziyun: "By the way, Song Ziyun, I've finished the Taiqing Divine Seal for you."

Song Ziyun didn't remember what it was: "Huh?"

Guo Yang burst into laughter, but did not remind him. Song Ziyun continued to ask A Yue about the update: "So what is the update process? I haven't been out since, and I haven't seen how you operate it. "

"Actually, it's very simple." A Yue explained seriously, "Generally, games have clients, which need to be recompiled. This is a normal update, and the corresponding method is called 'hot update', which means that the server does not need to be redeployed, and may even Players don’t need to log in again to complete the update..."

Song Ziyun asked: "Should we do a hot update or a cold update?"

A Yue replied: "Generally, the dividing line is not so clear. For games, updates are more important than stability, so if conditions permit, restart the system. It is best to go up and test it yourself after the update. Is there any problem? It would be best to open other bugs again, but the cloud service we use is the same."

Song Ziyun actually didn't understand, and stood beside the basketball court with A Yue: "This cloud service is really good."

A Yue also said: "Yes, if we didn't rely on this, our server might be down on the night of the final."

The two of them were talking, looking back on the not-so-arduous entrepreneurial experience of these short few days.Chen Qin was playing basketball in the court with dismay. Guo Yang thought it was because Bai helped Song Ziyun swipe the Three Kingdoms account for almost two months, but Chen Qin really didn't know what to say...

Ayue bought the server she rented from him, and the money for the full set of services certainly fell into his pocket as a cloud computing provider.

The reason for doing this... is of course not to earn a few cents from this little niece. They are all members of his own family, but this little niece insists on paying him and can't find a way to talk to him. What can he do?

But now that he is engaged in cloud services, he certainly has his own purpose.

This purpose itself is actually a bit difficult to explain. To explain this problem, we must first understand what cloud computing is. After all, to laymen, cloud computing seems very simple, just renting servers.

For those who are a little more knowledgeable...renting servers is actually nothing new. As of today in 2008, the world's Internet has been developing for more than ten years. Leasing ordinary servers and opening data centers are both very mature industries. , and has even become some kind of infrastructure - just a few days ago, in order to support the local game industry, South Korea next door legislated for the government to provide cheap and easy-to-use server hosting services for small game companies. Everyone who makes games in China is crying. The web game services of Weibo and Facebook already have the option of directly hosting servers that have reviewed the games. Flash Empire also recently had its own flash game page.

Even at the technical level, cloud computing at the beginning did not actually use anything new - distributed storage was a bit new, but Google got tired of it in 04. As for mainframes such as multi-core, virtual machines, and multi-channel The old technology was played by the seniors more than ten years ago and they are no longer interested in mentioning it.

So when cloud computing became popular abroad, Ma Huateng said that "cloud computing is very late" was a bit funny, but Li Yanhong said that "cloud computing is old wine in new bottles" was almost on point.

However, neither of them bet on this track. After all, it has nothing to do with technology. In the beginning, it was entirely a matter of business model. To explain the value of cloud computing in one sentence, you can quote Jim Gray, the father of the database. In other words: Data processing should be placed closer to the data.

In other words, some data are naturally suitable for calculation and processing in the cloud, and the model of "cloud computing" is actually called "cloud computing service", which itself is a service that sells computing power - with this name, computing power should be regarded as a products to sell to customers who don’t know much about the data transmission methods of the Internet but need data center services.

This is probably the reason why Amazon and Alibaba, which focus on efficiency, were able to succeed in the field of cloud computing first. Of course, these two companies did not understand how to do cloud computing from the beginning. Dr. Wang Jian’s insight into the prospects of the Internet is comparable to that of a reborn person. But he also struggled for several years without any results. In the end, it was entirely through the acquisition of Tianchao Wanwang's Alibaba Cloud that he laid the foundation of Alibaba Cloud...

It's probably true that it's ridiculous. After all, he used Godaddy's business routine from more than ten years ago and said he was doing cloud computing. I wonder if Dr. Wang Jian blushed when he reported on his work.

Now the doctorate is still at Microsoft Research Asia, but Chen Qin is a reborn person and knows the answer directly - domain name services can of course be provided. In addition, developer services, private office software, paid cloud disks, project hosting, etc. Combining things, plus Github, and Discuz!With the customer portal brought by the website building service provided by the Mysql team, a basic cloud service framework has almost taken shape.

This framework can not only make money - cloud computing can certainly make money, and it can make a lot of money, but cloud computing has some other key business factors, so Chen Qin does not expect it to make a lot of money, at least compared to the projects at hand. The money prospects were not particularly attractive.

The important thing is that cloud computing is the infrastructure of the Internet. It sounds high-end, and it maintains important resources of upstream and downstream manufacturers. It is naturally more influential than making small software games, which just meets the needs of Chen Qin, a middle school student.

In addition, now that the company is so big, it is impossible to manage everything. Not only do I have to play Lu Bu with Xu Lingling every day, but I also have to play social games with my niece. I am also a bit short-sighted, and I have no time to work on projects.

So on the one hand, it is entrusted to others to take care of it, and the Chinese wall, flattening, and ork are all used. For a large Internet company, it is indeed a change that should be experienced at this time when the CEO leaves the front line to be the helmsman.

But he must also be careful and always maintain the most basic control. After all, he is a middle school student.

Of course, being a local emperor in your own unlisted company means you have one and the same status, but you also have to think about what to do if the Imperial Guard rebels. For ordinary entrepreneurs, it is probably just wearing the official seal on the belt, but this is still too primitive, Yun Servers are the 'real estate' of the Internet. In the future, as long as the company's assets are moved to the cloud, it should be more of a deterrent for an Internet company than guarding a small official seal...

Kuala!

The basketball hit the net and fell to the ground. Guo Yang reached out to catch it and patted the ball outside the three-point line.

Song Ziyun was actually not very interested in cloud services. After asking a few questions, he started discussing other things. Chen Qin turned around and saw Ayue and him discussing the next update plan with great interest. For customers of cloud services, , There is really no need to know too many issues. As long as you have money, even a middle school student can start his own project using cloud services. From this perspective, Github's future is actually not bad.

But... speaking of it, A Yue's game is almost done now.

Of course, as long as the little niece is happy with what she does, she didn't have too high demands in the first place, but now that the game is finished and she has become famous, it's not a problem to wait for Longshan all the time. It's almost time to talk about the next plan.

Chen Qin suddenly asked to the side of the court: "By the way, Ah Yue."

"Ok?"

Chen Qin seemed to ask casually: "The Chinese New Year is almost here, and the traffic is also open. How are you going to celebrate the New Year?"

(End of this chapter)