Reboot 2003

Chapter 305 085: Global Village (Three in One)

August 8, the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games.

China has been preparing for many years, recruiting people and resources everywhere, and finally prepared until now. It is said that there was only one opening ceremony, and it actually cost a full 160 billion RMB. Is that much?There are quite a lot of them in this era.

A group of experts and scholars criticized it as a waste of people and money, but since everything is ready, let's go.

Today, the people are indeed jubilant and the whole world is celebrating. It is almost the first time since the reform and opening up that there has been such a lively day.

Of course it would be better to witness such an important moment by yourself...

But there is not just one Olympics in the world.

On the same day, many other things happened, and the value of these things seemed to be more important than the opening ceremony.

For example, the big goose next door is in conflict with Georgia. Today's big goose is not as good as it was in the future. It is clean and efficient to clean up a small country.

For example, Somali pirates took advantage of the opportunity to do something big again today. They have done more than [-] transactions this year.

Another example is that during the critical period of the election in Meili, across the sea, the Democratic Party congressman surnamed Ao and McCain were locked in an inseparable battle.

The McCain camp criticized the Democratic Party in a variety of ways. For example, it accused a certain man named Austria of the opposite party of sacrificing the U.S. military operation in Iraq in order to win the election. He would rather go to the gym during an overseas visit than take time to visit wounded U.S. soldiers. It was more like " Internet stars such as Britney Spears rather than down-to-earth problem-solving leaders.

In contrast, the focus of the Democratic camp's counterattack is relatively single, and is more limited to the fact that the Republican election will be the third term of US President Bush and can only continue Bush's wrong policies.

Therefore, professionals have expressed their opinion that the man surnamed Ao has run out of skills. Now the beautiful economy is stable and improving, and the next 'school season' is about to usher in. By then, the recovery of consumption will drive the economy to pick up, and the Nasdaq and Dow Jones Industrial Average have also been recovering in the past two days. Steady recovery, this guy named Ao doesn't know how to read what he says.

So... although it is hard to say whether the economy is good or not, after all, the unemployment rate and investment market enthusiasm are still not very good, but the Republican Party still seems to be more popular with voters.

In addition, the black president has a lot of strange auras, and his aggressive publicity on the Internet has aroused a lot of resentment from traditional forces. Also, because of his skin color, some extreme racists have even recently posted about his assassination. Preview.

In order to deal with this situation, the Democratic Party seems to have begun to think of many ways, and even started to speak out in a panic, and then naturally it also affected someone on the other side of the ocean...

So on the night of the Olympic opening ceremony, in a small bedroom in a small town in the mainland, Xiao Chen was so angry that he cursed.

"Damn it, old man Deng, who is your friend now..."

The Olympic Games were being broadcast on the TV in the living room, but grandma didn't come to ask him who he was chatting with. Xiao Chen was cursing in his room, and Xu Lingling in the headphones asked him: "What's wrong?"

"It's an acquaintance from the past. He said that a friend of his released a short-selling report and bravely challenged the corrupt banking industry, exposing the dark status of the industry during the last term." Chen Qin asked, "Guess who it is?"

"you?"

"Anyway, it's not me. Who the hell is his friend? Now I just want to make all the money I made last year peacefully. He is the one who does the most shit..."

Xu Lingling didn't understand, but she didn't understand in the past either. Chen Qin was chattering endlessly. She listened and watched the program, and after a while she started humming a ditty.

"The five-star red flag flutters in the wind..."

"Is Lin Miao coming on stage?"

"Yes, you know." Xu Lingling said, "This little girl looks so cute and really interesting. Speaking of Chen Qin, what are you looking at?"

"I feel that Meijian is about to collapse. It should only be in the past few days. I'm waiting for a feast."

"Oh……"

To be honest, Xu Lingling didn't understand, but she didn't necessarily understand the inexplicable things Chen Qin said before, so she didn't care.

After a while, "The Olympic theme song started."

Chen Qin was curious: "Are you watching too?"

Xu Lingling said: "I'm hanging in the background listening to it. It's the official theme song. Now many people regard our welcome to Yanjing as the theme song."

Chen Qin said: "Yours must sound better."

Xu Lingling said: "I think this is also very good."

Then he hummed softly: "You and I... live in the global village..."

Chen Qin listened to her humming songs in his dormitory and thought to himself. I don't know how the Chinese music scene is, but the global village is probably not going to be around for a few years. By then, let alone logging, we will not even be able to do business together. So easy.

But while we are still in the global village, it’s time to get down to business.Looking at the K-line of Nasdaq on the screen, Chen Qin was a little distracted, because of the recent series of plans, and the fact that he started shorting Wall Street last year... Of course, based on the experience of the Enron financial fraud case, in short, everything should be prepared. , ordinary people who are required to do the specific things are not able to participate, and professional managers are hired. Now is the time to keep a low profile and make a fortune in silence.

It's just because it's almost time recently. Goldman Sachs and Lehman have piled up a lot of debt, and they are just waiting for the two brothers to blow up a big firework, but he doesn't know the specific time.

He could only stare at the K-line and wait slowly. In any case, he was not in a hurry. He just flipped through the news and made plans for the next stage.

Xu Lingling was looking at it seriously, and suddenly the call came.

Chen Qin was startled, thinking who it was.

It turned out it was Lao Chen calling.

"What are you doing?"

Chen Qin replied: "I'm watching the Olympics with others."

"It's okay to follow Lingling," Old Chen said. "I heard that she is alone in Shanghai recently."

What are you implying, Old Chen... Chen Qin was a little speechless, but Old Chen was here to talk about business: "Just today, someone from Galaxy Company called us and wanted to settle the balance of the last patent with us. .”

Chen Qin hummed: "Then just go and collect the money."

"Put it on your own card..."

"You can use it as you like, such as hiring an extra manager for the store or something." Chen Qin said, "You are the shopkeeper, and now you are running the front line to manage the business every day. It's very troublesome."

But Lao Chen said: "It's not too much trouble, and there's pretty much everything that needs to be done now. Lao Qi and the others are also in charge of the branch. Your mother also said that she would pick you up to come to Hanzhang with your grandma."

Then he said: "But I told her no need. When we are almost free next year, we don't have to stay in the provincial capital all the time."

Chen Qin hummed, but Old Chen asked again: "Are you sure you want to talk to Xingxing?"

Chen Qin felt strange: "Of course, the contract has been signed, who will we talk to if we don't talk to them?"

"But recently, haven't you been getting very close to the Alibaba next door?" Lao Chen said, "I heard that they value you very much and open their office specifically to your place..."

Chen Qin didn't take it seriously: "Do they take me seriously? They want to rely on me to find out what's going on in the galaxy."

But Lao Chen said: "I think they are more serious than that Galaxy. Galaxy wanted to buy your patent before, and the share ratio was not very high. They also created a bunch of offshore companies and tied them to us, and the people on the contract were not Galaxy, but It’s a company called Manjun, and I always feel like there’s something fishy about it.”

Chen Qin hesitated to speak: "That's helping us with tax planning. Besides, the royalties from games cannot be compared with the money from writing songs..."

Because it was left-handed and right-handed, of course it was done to save trouble, but probably because of this, Lao Chen, who was doing business, felt that the other party was a little sincere. Chen Qin felt a little guilty when he explained, but vaguely felt something, so he asked : "Why did you suddenly say this? Who told you something?"

It turns out. "Actually, it was Master Wang last time. I met him again in Hanzhang today." Lao Chen said.

Chen Qin was shocked: "Huh?"

Lao Chen said: "Although Master Wang is a bit unreliable, he said that Alibaba is really optimistic about you. Although the patent is gone now, if you want to find another company to do things, you can still go to them..."

Chen Qin said quickly: "That's no need. Have you forgotten? Galaxy is Lingling's father's company."

"Oh yes, has he looked for you?"

"No, but it's so embarrassing that I ran away now."

After mentioning that Old Chen had no objection, he asked Chen Qin what he was doing at home recently, and hung up after a few words.

Chen Qin said absently, but thought to himself, this Alibaba... is really persevering.

This is normal. After all, although it is a small matter compared to the economic crisis, he, or rather Fota's patents have become famous recently.

After the International Invitational Tournament ended a few days ago, not only did the Dota competition go very well, but Dionysus and his teammates defeated foreign players and won the event award. The photo of them wearing a red flag made the news. This is of course a good thing.

Fota's championship was snatched away by several South Korean players... When it comes to e-sports, South Korea next door is not the first, but when it comes to e-sports in the national system, South Korea next door is probably the unprecedented number one. Since the last century In the beginning, the state in South Korea vigorously supported the online game industry, and e-sports naturally had to be developed as well. Because it is a small country with few people, this system has been quite successful.

So nowadays, most of the popularity of Blizzard e-sports is in South Korea. A lot of players who can't roll into StarCraft are running around in order to survive. Warcraft 3 is their next best choice. Now they want to switch to this Fota There is no psychological barrier at all. The winners this time are a group of professional Warcraft 3 players from South Korea who want to do some side work.

However, due to the author of the map, as well as the popularity shown during the competition that is not inferior to Dota, and some not critical but very meaningful business operations, in short, the Fota project has officially entered the stage of history. In today's global village, everyone doesn't have any bad opinions. After the final game, it seemed to be on the sports news of China Central Television.

As a result, he, the patent holder, also became famous - Ali was the first to get the first prize, and it seemed that he was starting to have other people's ideas.

Although they don't make games and don't know what they are trying to do now, they seem to be starting to think of these inexplicable bad ideas.

To say it's normal, it's probably quite normal.

In the business battlefield, any business that is higher than the per capita salary will be snatched by others. Naturally, competition is as common as breathing.

However, because the Internet field is naturally technologically innovative, it can sometimes have the same effect as a dimensionality reduction blow on traditional industries, so they always have to go to various places to disturb the strong but clumsy sleeping bears. In other words, Internet companies usually go to The one who makes trouble for others.

Of course, sometimes we will compete with our peers, because both parties are Internet companies. At this time, it is not about dimensionality reduction, but about fighting for business with real swords and guns.

Logically speaking, this is not the time yet, but how can I put it?

It is not surprising that Alibaba makes OS systems and needs to make them compatible.

But in addition, Chen Qin has also recently started thinking about Alibaba's business. Online shopping and online payment are now no longer able to bypass the behemoth Alibaba.

How to do it?Of course, normally speaking, there is no point in provoking them directly. After all, capitalism does have its advantages. Normal competition is to fight for products and publicity. This is also a healthier model for the entire market. Stealing official seals and throwing paint every day If so, then it’s better not to do business.

But the so-called core competitiveness comes into play at this time.Of course, the real core competitiveness cannot be used just to brag about it. No matter how good the technology is, it must be able to keep up. But thinking about his experience in the past year, Chen Qin came up with an idea.Putting on his headphones, Chen Qin said, "I'm going to make a call."

"Just now you blamed me again!" Xu Lingling was still protesting, but she giggled and said, "Go ahead!"

After hanging up the call and going to watch the opening ceremony, Chen Qin turned off the microphone and dialed A Yue.

"Hello?" came the girl's brisk voice, "Chen Qin, are you watching the opening ceremony too?"

"I have seen it, but there is something trivial." Chen Qin scratched his face, "You said your mother was in Shanghai recently to discuss business..."

"Yes, she is planning to go to Yanjing to watch the Olympics in two days, and then she will go to Meilijian."

She seemed to want Chen Qin to ask, 'What about you?', but Chen Qin asked, "What are you talking about?"

The little girl teased: "Why do you ask about other people's family affairs?"

"Tell me about it. I promise I won't tell anyone, and it won't be detrimental to your family."

"Well, it's just with Yahoo. They have some assets in China that they want to dispose of recently, so mom wants to buy them and let the uncles and uncles of the Gu family take care of them."

Chen Qin nodded. He had heard the rumor before, but now he confirmed it from the person involved.

"This is not easy to deal with." Chen Qin hesitated, "Yahoo can't survive in China. Those junk assets are probably not wanted by Alibaba and Kuaikan. They don't even have a stable business, so what's the use of buying them."

A Yue said: "She thinks I can make good games. It's very simple for her to buy it and run it through her own channels. It can be regarded as an explanation with her grandfather's family, but she just hasn't thought about how to make money. It seems that she thinks making money is It’s a very simple thing…”

"How young are you, you teach the adults in your family how to make money." Chen Qin laughed and said, "But don't worry, making money is not that difficult. Your mother must have her own plan."

And mentally added, only for the next three years.

Ah Yue then asked, "Are you so confident? Do you want your family to come too? I feel like your dad is having a hard time. He opened a hotpot restaurant and couldn't get home for a long time."

"You can tell him yourself, but I can't persuade him." Chen Qin said, and then said, "Okay, you watch first, and I will ask others."

"So what are you asking?"

"Maybe I want to know about the situation in Shencheng..."

Chen Qin didn't speak clearly, chatted briefly and hung up the phone.

Probably because he left, the relationship became a lot more casual. Since that day, talking to A-Yue has become subtly much easier.

But this time he really wanted to ask. What he wanted to know was not about the Gu family, but about Yahoo.

Yahoo is selling off its domestic assets, probably because it can no longer continue.

Now after confirmation, Chen Qin entered the channel and Ji Xianglin was chatting with Li Nanguang about something. "Xiao Chen is here? If you have something to do, I'll leave first." Mr. Li has started to socialize more recently. Because of the success of Kaitian OS, he meets with leaders and companies who don't know where they come from every day.

But on the one hand, I'm probably tired of it. On the other hand, I need to win over more foreign friends and businessmen, and I can't lose my open source identity. Generally speaking, I'm still dealing with people from partner universities and communities.

Xiao Chen mostly talked about finance with Ji Xianglin. He had no interest in it, so he wanted to leave, but Chen Qin asked: "Mr. Li, wait a minute. I want to ask you, who knows anyone from Yahoo?"

Lao Ji said: "Don't you guys who work on the Internet know each other? I don't know."

Mr. Li said: "I met Jerry Yang of Yahoo last month, but he just resigned as CEO recently. What's wrong?"

Chen Qin had also heard about this. Jerry Yang was brought in to put out the fire and worked with Yahoo for a year. Unfortunately, it was of no use and he missed the acquisition by Microsoft.

"I want to ask him about business matters..."

Before Chen Qin finished speaking, Mr. Li said directly: "Then I'll just bring him over."

Then Yang Zhiyuan was brought here in 10 minutes. Apart from anything else, the Kaitian System has a really great reputation in the world.

Yang Zhiyuan had never spoken to Chen Qin before, and they exchanged friendly greetings after arriving: "Teacher Chen, I have admired you for a long time..."

Chen Qin cleared his throat and said kindly: "You are the teacher. When you were working on Yahoo, Mr. Yang, we were probably still wearing crotchless pants and playing in the mud."

"Ha ha ha ha."

After chatting for a while, Chen Qin got down to the topic: "Teacher Yang, it seems that you also want to develop cloud computing, right?"

Yang Zhiyuan was embarrassed: "I saw you doing this last year and I felt it was very promising, so I suggested that the company try to imitate your model. I didn't even tell Mr. Chen at that time..."

Chen Qin said with a smile: "It's okay, we are modern people. Since it is fair competition, there is no business that others cannot do if we do it."

The channel was a little quiet for a while. Jerry Yang was probably complaining, why didn't you show any mercy when registering the patent? You even wanted to grab the patent for remote debugging of mobile phones. Are you still a human being?

Of course, Yahoo has a big problem, and the reason for its current decline is not entirely due to patent issues.Yang Zhiyuan said lonely: "Because the project is not profitable, the new CEO also cut off all the original plans after taking office. In short, we have no chance to compete with Mr. Chen in the future."

Chen Qin seemed surprised: "So all your cloud computing has been cut off?"

Jerry Yang felt a little uncomfortable: "This is public information, and the company's spokesperson has also talked about it."

Chen Qin asked again: "What about Alibaba? Haven't you wanted to move Alibaba to the cloud for a long time?"

Yang Zhiyuan was helpless: "Of course I can't do it."

"This is not good." Chen Qin said, "There has been a lot of turmoil in the domestic political situation recently. The higher authorities seem to be preparing to carry out some economic reforms. Overseas capital like ours, which controls domestic companies through foreign capital, is in an embarrassing situation. Your company currently holds a proportion of Alibaba's shares. With such a big company and no control measures beyond the contract, aren't we afraid that their executives will hollow out the company?"

Yang Zhiyuan was stunned, but this time he was not angry. After all, he was really not good at this.

"Teacher Chen, do you have any advice?"

Chen Qin said: "Now we are actually doing quite well in cloud computing."

With a puff, Ji Xianglin laughed, and then quickly said he was embarrassed and exited. Mr. Li didn't say anything, and just listened quietly.

Jerry Yang had a clear understanding, but he followed his words anyway: "It's good. Those debugging tools are very popular on Github. In addition, it seems that some websites are gradually adopting your one-stop solution. According to the person in charge of your North American region, they seem to have already Achieving balance of payments..."

"Hey, where are we now? Besides, we are a foreign company and we are not listed on the market. Others may not trust us when doing business in Silicon Valley. We cannot get orders from old companies that value brands. We can only hang out in the Internet circle. mix."

Chen Qin then asked: "Mr. Yang, since you have this need, why don't you come and order our cloud computing? We are supported by Github overseas, but in China, you know, the price of manual services nowadays Low, even if there are two entrances, Discuz and Mysql, our server is still not large-scale."

Jerry Yang was not surprised and still asked knowingly: "You mean to let us, Yahoo, use your cloud computing? But we don't need it ourselves."

"I mean within the country, you can ask Alibaba to use our cloud servers, and we can give you a discount."

"Money is not an issue." Jerry Yang said, "But this is because we want to control domestic companies. Alibaba itself also has information confidentiality needs. How can it move its business to your server?"

"You don't have to worry about this. We won't touch applications on the Internet or data on the Internet. As a cloud service provider, you still need to have these qualities. If you are worried, we can build a special system for you. Then you can The operation and maintenance site will supervise, and we are only responsible for providing solutions..."

Although cloud services sound high-end, in 90% of cases, renting servers and setting up a fool-proof operation and maintenance system are enough. However, security requirements are higher.

But 'complete autonomy and controllability' is something that can be fully realized by one's mind.

To gain trust in the other party, especially in strictly standardized organizations such as banks and governments, the most common methods in the industry in the future will be to rely on goodwill, swearing, and making connections. From a practical point of view, these things should be the most important in cloud computing business. One of the competitiveness is not decent, but it is really effective.

But other than that, there are still some technical skills. If he insists on winning this order, it is probably difficult for Chen Qin, a reborn person, to be able to win. After hearing such a lie, Yang Zhiyuan was obviously moved.

After he finished speaking, he said he would think about it, but he didn't hear what his intention was, but Chen Qin soon found out - Ma Yun came to find him before he had connected with the company that night.

"Mr. Chen, what do you mean?"

Others probably don’t know who has the final say in Galaxy software now, but after all, Ma Yun is a real neighbor. When encountering such a seemingly damaging trick, he will probably be the first to know whose bad idea it is; Chen Qin She answered his call and asked with a smile: "It's so late, isn't Mr. Ma watching the Olympics?"

"Watching the Olympics scares you crazy. We have been friends for many years, and Alibaba's brothers haven't done anything bad to your family, right? What's wrong with you and Yahoo discussing this matter now?"

Chen Qin thought to himself that you are quite well informed. You knew it just after telling Yang Zhiyuan. Maybe there is an information channel in Yahoo?

Of course, this doesn't matter. For business competition, it is natural that it can be done without any prohibition by law, so it doesn't matter if others find out.Chen Qin teased: "It's just a normal business relationship. Alibaba recently launched a mobile OS, and we didn't say anything about it."

Ma Yun seemed to be so excited that he clapped his thighs: "Hey, brother Chen, our mobile phone system was built under the guidance of your Galaxy software. If it's not appropriate, just tell me. Come here. What does it mean to come out?”

Chen Qin said frankly: "But we have been doing cloud computing for a long time. Now it seems that our domestic services cannot continue. If you have any questions, just ask us. We are just a group of technical people. What bad intentions can we have?" ?”

Ma Yun said bluntly: "Brother Chen, you are not candid. If you weren't abroad, I would have caught you and fined you ten drinks. You said you don't know about our relationship with Yahoo. Our domestic enterprises can do it themselves." Is it easy? If you succeed in this business, won’t you take our pants off?”

Chen Qin disagreed: "How can it be so serious? In the final analysis, cloud computing is just renting a server. It is our fault to bypass you and contact Yahoo. But think about it, servers also cost money. Some places only have a few It’s a small server, but all the network workers are needed for testing, operation and maintenance. If someone manages it in a unified way, we can definitely save a lot of money.”

Of course Ma Yun was not happy: "If you had come three years earlier, I would probably have agreed, but it's not like you don't know what the situation is between us and Yahoo..."

"It doesn't matter what the situation is with Yahoo, but they will be willing to pay, at least part of it, and they have a cooperative relationship with Oracle. Oracle's system is worth hundreds of millions a year. If it's backed by Yahoo, don't say I'll give you a call." [-]% off, do you think this is not good?"

Ma Yun hesitated: "But even so..."

But Chen Qin rushed to say: "Besides, no matter what, we are all our own people. People from China will not cheat people from China. We just want to make some money, just to start domestic business, so we are a little too hasty, and we will definitely not help Yahoo deal with it." If you are worried about your server, you can send someone here. Then you will be responsible for the operation and maintenance of the server room, and we will pay you wages. Do you think this is the case for the head office?"

Ma Yun didn't know what to say for a moment. He could only say: "You, Xiao Chen, always feel that you are up to something..."

Chen Qin chuckled and said: "Then it's settled. Just wait for two days. Lao Xu happens to be in China. If you need anything then, you can talk to him slowly. It depends on whether you accept his plan or not. Just admit it and that’s it!”

Ma Yun felt a little relieved: "That's okay, but since I mentioned it just now, we have been working on mobile OS recently, but we have actually not contacted you..."

But Chen Qin kept saying: "Do whatever you want, it'll be fine. If you have any questions, just ask our people directly. Since we are brotherly companies, of course we have to help each other!"

　There will be another update before 12 o'clock tonight (inclusive)

　　
　
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