Reboot 2003

Chapter 323 104: On the Road (-in-)

Considering the current situation, maybe this is a good idea. Chen Qin has actually thought of it before - there are many people and many ways, and only by working together can we 'concentrate our efforts to do big things'.

Unfortunately……

To do big things, you must at least have the ability to do them. Now, firstly, these people had different interests from him, and secondly, Chen Qin was worried that he would be deceived by an expert, so he decided to find someone to join him.

Looking at these oil guys now, the other party is not necessarily much better than him - although the oil guys have a big background, they are the sovereign fund of the United Arab Emirates, but there are many examples of sovereign funds being cheated when they invest in Silicon Valley companies. Thinking of Gro Fang De looks tepid in the future. With this teammate, who knows whether he will be held back in the future.

As for paying, the oil man's professionalism in this regard is quite admirable.

But now the money is given to buy shares. This is actually dividing the cake. When it comes to such a big issue, he can't tell the other party that I am reborn. You have to listen to me. You can't interfere in the company's affairs in the future, and the money has to be paid. Two servings...

In Chen Qin's view, this is actually a fair request, but considering that the other party is unlikely to agree, he can only forget it now.

So that night, the oil man's invitation was declined. Although the possibility of cooperation was still there, Shen Nanpeng's follow-up reply was that we were still doing preliminary investigations, and we would wait to discuss the details later. The oil man also said that it was understandable. , but there has been no contact since.

And just like that, as this episode passed, time continued to pass day by day. Although I used to criticize the Meilican election on the Internet and was also concerned about the latest developments of the economic crisis, it was somewhat careless. Now with this episode, it seems that it is Get serious——

In this way, October passed, and after the midterm exam, November also slowly passed by for a few weeks.

For ordinary students, life is certainly not that complicated. However, watching the news every day and seeing what happened in my memory happen again, and now it seems to have something to do with their wealth and property, is always a kind of It's a rather strange feeling.

The October general election ended quickly. Due to the poor economic situation, the Democratic Party, which had no obvious advantage, won the election without any suspense. After the election, the new leader did not have a few minutes to celebrate the election victory, and then You still have to travel around giving speeches. Of course, now that there is no campaign pressure and the governing cycle has not yet begun, the purpose of the speeches is probably different from before.

In addition to paving the way for future policies, we also need to repay supporters in the campaign to a certain extent. We don’t need to be so particular about some less-than-glorious things - it is said that we first went to a minority area in New York, and then went to participate in I attended an open meeting of a well-known cult group, and then rushed to California non-stop. Although the talk was about globalization and informatization, which was not nutritious, the first stop was to the local Chinese community. It still felt quite strange. of.

And then, although he kept talking about the economy during the campaign, now everyone has been elected, and the so-called 700 billion bailout fund is not all based on him. He is also idle as president... It just so happens that the public has this attitude towards him. The personal life of the black president is still very interesting, so why not do something else to divert the public's attention now...

So at the beginning of November, people across the United States were paying attention to the new president who was about to move into the White House, and were discussing the first lady and the first princess. At this time, the president said that he planned to pick a "number one dog" recently, and since he was going to the White House, Of course not all dogs are eligible——

So the new president talked to the media about his dog selection criteria. First of all, he wants to be president. In the future, he will meet all kinds of people. Sometimes the language may be more intense when discussing issues, and there will also be some bearded people wearing turbans. The customer's dog cannot be frightened. Secondly, he is a mixed-race minority. He hopes that the dog is also a mixed-race. Finally, his daughter will be allergic. He hopes that this dog will not hinder his daughter's health...

So the time entered November, and after the presidential election, the public's attention naturally shifted to other places. Although the news of the 'Number One Dog' itself was not very important, under the guidance of many parties, the Middle East nuclear issue, minority Ethnic status, women's rights and possible political factionalism naturally entered the public eye.

Even a large group of Japanese companies have called for bargain hunting on Wall Street and invested heavily in financial institutions like Lehman, Morgan Stanley, and even American Bank of America and Merrill Lynch that are related to the national economy and people's livelihood. It seems that they are no more important than the president's dog.

I have probably seen it once, and now experiencing it again, these things may seem a bit ridiculous, but you will always get what you want. In November, China’s 4 trillion bailout funds will also be on the way.

From a future perspective, the Chinese capital boom period for more than ten years after 08 is basically related to this wave of policies. As we all know, the economy has a troika, domestic demand, exports, investment... Before, the Chinese economy was severely lame. After several years, After the brutal growth in , two-thirds of the country's GDP was exported. Now that exports have suffered a setback, the first thing to ensure is of course investment. In addition, investors in the U.S. stock market have no confidence. This may not be a problem for economic development. Chance.

So although it sounds a bit unseemly - foreign capital cannot come in, so foreign guarantees and domestic loans are quickly opened. The land that was originally intended to be used for industrial upgrading is now used for real estate, but now I can't care about that. too much.

Of course, we are already in the 21st century. There are so many experiences from the last century that can be used for reference, and investors have some ideas of their own.

It is no longer popular to dig for gold in floods. Nowadays, smart people with some wealth are coming in. Everyone wants to be a shovel seller. Real estate and financial supporting services are already showing signs of becoming popular.

Unfortunately, it is still not popular enough, so the industry that sells shovels and sells materials is still tepid. Not only has advertising costs not increased, but there are also a large number of investors who flock to Galaxy Software Company when they have nothing to do. From the perspective of investors, Now the Internet is just a service industry that has reached a stable period, and the service industry will always be hit harder by the economic crisis. Even with the reservoir theory, it is still a good bargain hunter in the general environment. Chance……

Chen Qin has nothing to say about this. Although business is a field that promotes social progress, there are only a few people who really have a clear vision. In most cases, of course, everyone is staring at each other's cakes on each other's plates. Of course, this is not the case. I sold myself in advance, but I still told Sun Xiaomei and the others to build up a good relationship with these people first, so that they will be useful in the future...

Of course, although you can't make money, online advertising still plays some roles that you didn't have before.

To be more specific, advertising has played a very good role in the Kaitian system and its related products. In addition to the Kaitian system itself, friendly companies such as Guazi, 360, Meizu, and Yamaha have also benefited greatly. New Smart The core of the mobile phone is the Internet, so the efficiency of publicity and distribution is much better than that of ordinary products.

In addition, the software ecosystem has gradually begun to exert its strength - in addition to the previous rice-tung cups, Lu Rong and their music mall seem to have become a force worthy of attention recently. They seem to have used an online verification method based on Java. , made some simple encryption for the software in the store, and coupled with the cross-platform ecology pulled from Waibo.com, it seems to have really become a beggar’s version of the original Apple store.

Chen Qin himself still doesn’t think this thing can be done, but now it seems that regardless of the theory, it is really useful. And as the circles of developers, manufacturers and users react to each other in this way, an open source system is used as the basis. The core ecosystem has been officially established. Such ecological electronic products are a real dimensionality reduction blow to the market. Although promotion and marketing are indispensable, it is remarkable that one dollar of marketing can have the effect of two dollars. Now, if one dollar can have the effect of five dollars, it is a real qualitative change. At least in the field of mobile phones, Kaitian's ecological rise is now unstoppable.

And in this process, if there is any problem...

Probably still not making money... There is some income from advertising interfaces, collecting tolls from default stores, and first-party products, but compared to the huge investment in research and development systems, it seems a bit thankless. Spend a little here and a little there. , Unknowingly, hundreds of millions have been spent this year. Manjun's actuary had nothing to do and came to show Mr. Chen the accounts. He repeatedly said that this business was too redundant and it would definitely not last long.

Of course, Chen Qin couldn't finally cut off the system he had built. No matter what, he couldn't save money, and this link was not what he planned to use to make money.

However, although he does not intend to listen to Manjun, the company has been spending more and more money to open ceilings recently, and its position has become more and more stable. The company was a little disapproving of the new system at first, but recently it has become more and more popular. The more people are directly involved - Of course, a large part of the reason is the prospect of mobile Internet in the future. Now that the gold mine is at hand, there is no intention of missing it.

But there is also a direct reason, but it is because of cloud computing.

Of course, cloud computing is still in the research and development stage. Teacher Tan and the others have recently entered the debugging cycle. It will still take some time for the official version of virtualization technology to go online. It is only because Meiligen plays the digital security card and starts publicity in advance for security needs. stand up.

However, as something that is actually infrastructure, the technology of cloud computing itself is a sinking technology. In fact, it is not a rigid requirement. It is normal to use many advanced technologies to achieve some very conservative customer needs here, and the needs of different customers The needs are different——

From the current point of view, it is still unrealistic for the company to take orders from large and beautiful companies, so its previous targets were mainly IT companies and game companies on the platform.

Recently, Ah Yue's mini-game has begun to decline, but the food-stealing game is very popular at home and abroad, and more imitators have followed. It has finally reached the stage of 'gathering of gold diggers'——

Web games have inherently high concurrency requirements. After all, a game may have hundreds of thousands of people at launch, but in two days there may only be tens of thousands left. Wait a few months until a big V forwards it, Or if there are some other viral broadcast events, it is not impossible for the concurrent volume to surge to millions again. These are all problems that naturally require cloud services to solve.

At present, the company's cloud computing has been able to break even overseas, most of which comes from game servers, and a small part comes from Github's network disk and developer tools. Considering the similarity between mobile games and online game business, the company seems to be The mobile phone business is regarded as the next hot spot in cloud computing. In short, Chen Qin has started to pay attention to it recently without shouting...

Nowadays, cloud computing is valued because of mobile Internet... There is nothing wrong. They are working hard in this direction. Chen Qin didn’t say anything. The market is sluggish now, but the company is thriving internally. Not only are they working on these new things, Other businesses are also making gratifying progress. In addition to existing businesses, we are also developing some new things along the company's existing service lines, upstream and downstream, such as domain name hosting, search engines, and company management...

Among them, the company management software is similar to Kuaiba's system, which allows company computers to be monitored to prevent employees from fishing during working hours. Such software has been used in Internet cafes for ten years, but after traditional companies accessed the Internet, it has not been available for a long time. This kind of business has become popular in the past two years.

Search engines are also a key point in the digital advertising industry. Of course, this is an industry with real barriers. However, if it is just a search tool, it is not difficult to build. There were even mature open source solutions five or six years ago. Its barriers are It is mainly reflected in big data. It just so happens that the company has this kind of technology - that is, the input method it was working on at the beginning. In the Chinese circle, although the input method and the search engine have completely different business directions, they are technically typical. Upstream and downstream relationships.

In the past, Galaxy Software relied on Google. Due to some competition in other businesses this year, and the original contract to sell Getay has been fulfilled, this market has become the company's next competitive direction.

In addition, domain name management systems have recently begun to be developed. For cloud computing, although this is a mature business more than ten years ago, the domain name itself is no less important than Discuz! Customer acquisition channels, especially in China - domain name registration in China is very troublesome. If cloud computing service providers can help solve some of these problems, they can also get a large number of customers from individual webmasters. Recently, Wanwang has occupied semi-official resources and has just ruined itself. After Alibaba acquired Wanwang, it was probably because it was using other people's servers and had not yet thought of doing this business. It happened to be an empty window that could be exploited. Expect.

Speaking of domain names, the price of domain names has just increased recently - when the economy goes down in the future, digital currency, as part of the network, will play the role of a reservoir to a certain extent. Now that cryptocurrency has not come out, Bitcoin It's just something on a paper.

So now Bitcoin is a domain name, especially the .com domain name - due to its scarcity, short domain names are basically registered one less one, and investment in domain names has been a hot investment in the past two years.

In short, they are doing this and that, and the company is probably very motivated. For technology companies, it is an innate instinct to seek growth points. Although the company run by Chen Qin is a bit nondescript, in short, the people They are all serious people engaged in the Internet industry. Since they will receive bonuses if they do well, they naturally follow their feelings and continue to do it. Mr. Chen has been busy with investment recently and has no time to write any tips and tricks for them. Of course they have to get the YY voice and game boxes they gave them before, but they thought of these things themselves, and they seem to be more reliable than Mr. Chen thought.

It's just... although everything is prosperous, the problem is still the same...

That means not making money.

In any case, search engines and domain name hosting are old businesses in the past. It is difficult to make any profit before grabbing the market. And even if domain names have become popular recently, everyone knows that Galaxy Software has a lot of good domain names for its companies. But those domain names themselves are the property of the boss and have nothing to do with the company.

For Chen Qin, it was probably because he happened to run into some money problems, but no good news about money came out to solve the problem. In short, it was still a bit regretful.

But there is nothing you can do about it. After spending the days of making witty remarks about the U.S. election and being able to point fingers at those European and American companies that have failed to succeed from a high position, you have to start doing business.

So on the way, this time it was time to get really busy.

A Yue updates her map every day. As the number of players increases and the scale of the event becomes larger and larger, her responsibilities seem to become heavier. Occasionally, players complain about her bad changes on Weibo because of bad changes. Chen Qin complained, but after that, he still exchanged information with several statistical volunteers in the community every day in extracurricular activities, and asked Song Ziyun, a semi-professional, to learn about the current winning rate of heroes on the ladder.

Xu Lingling didn't have anything serious to do. After all, the song was almost completely popular in the first half of the year.

Until November, it seemed that the software she had recorded before was gradually getting new news. Now there were commercial promotion activities every now and then, and Party A had other requirements, so she had to re-record as needed. On Singles' Day, there were still I specially sent Chen Qin a photo of her in the recording studio, and also took a photo with her colleagues from Liangli Jian and Meili Jian. It is said that she is also the voice actor of the virtual singer with her.

As for Chen Qin himself...

But just like before, if I have something to do, I would check out the acquisition negotiations of Melician, if I have nothing to do, I would review the design plan for "Relics Brawl", if I have nothing to do, I would take the time to check on the maintenance status of the Magic Sword engine, and listen to the recent internal news of the music mall.

Although life is not much different from before, the economic crisis continues to develop and I watch the news every day, but I still don’t see any good unplanned opportunities.

But maybe this is what it feels like to be ‘on the road’…

Time flies by and November is coming to an end. During class the day before AMD's acquisition plan came, Xu Lingling sent him a text message and asked him: "There is a Leonid meteor shower tonight. Can you see it over there?"

(End of this chapter)