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   Chapter 614 Boiled Frogs in Warm Water

The share price of    Telephone and Telegraph Group has also begun to rise. Many analysts believe that by getting rid of the burden of Bell Labs, the profit of Telephone and Telegraph Group can increase at least a lot.

   Not to mention the 2% stake in America Telecom, which is not a loss, even a small profit.

   Just compared to WorldCom, which is very popular, the news of the Telephone and Telegraph Group seems a little inconspicuous, even if the Telephone and Telegraph Group makes more money than WorldCom!

   The attention of the media and the telecommunications industry is also mostly on WorldCom. The acquisition of more than 10 billion US dollars, on WorldCom, seems to be a small acquisition that is "not worth mentioning".

There are also rumors that Bernard Ebbes wants to swallow the elephant and let WorldCom take MCI into the bag. You must know that MCI, which is mainly engaged in long-distance calls, can earn 18.5 billion US dollars a year, while WorldCom only has only For less than $8 billion, just like that, Bernard Ebbs even dared to call out to eat MCI.

Before Bernard Ebbs, British Telecom was flirting with MCI. British Telecom had given MCI an offer of up to 19 billion US dollars. It wanted to merge with MCI. Of course, after the merger, British Telecom dominated, but this price It's already terrifyingly high.

But Bernard Ebbs, even when he knew that British Telecom had already made an offer to MCI, dared to make MCI's idea. Obviously, the US knife he was going to take out for MCI was probably more than he imagined. many!

"If WorldCom can acquire MCI, WorldCom will become America's second telecommunications company to provide long-distance and local call services after the Telephone and Telegraph Group, as well as broadband, mobile Internet and other services, and Ebes will become a telecom company. The real king of the industry!"

The editor-in-chief of "Communication World" commented on WorldCom's rumors. If WorldCom can buy MCI, then WorldCom will really have the strength to compete with telecom giants such as Telephone and Telegraph Group and Verizon. .

   But inside the telecommunications industry, including many analysts on Wall Street, some were frightened by Bernard Ebbs, and named Bernard Ebbs the "Mad King".

WorldCom acquired MFS with huge sums of money, but also wanted to get involved in the news of MCI Telecom, which made headlines in America. Many technology and financial media are also rushing to reprint the news of WorldCom. Bernard Ebbs "Telecom Emperor" The title also began to resound in America.

On the other hand, the news of the change of ownership of Bell Labs is not so conspicuous. On the one hand, the Telephone and Telegraph Group does not want to publicize it. After all, this is not a good thing. On the other hand, the scientific research industry, except for the industry Other than people, the rest of the people don't pay too much attention, and most people still pay more attention to news such as Hollywood stars.

  Bell Labs was changed hands. In the scientific research industry, it is nothing less than a big news. Bell Labs' reputation and status are there, and many top scientific research giants are paying attention to the status of Bell Labs.

When they heard that the new gold owner was Song Yang, many big names in the technology industry were still a little surprised. I wondered if Song Yang, the upstart, could afford the Bell Labs that burns gold like paper. What is the difference between the Bell Labs in hand and the Bell Labs in the era of the Telephone and Telegraph Group!

   Song Yang didn't care too much about these rumors, and just sent another research and development fee to Bell Labs.

Only when Bell Labs starts to operate again, those in the scientific research industry will see the changes in Bell Labs. When Bell Labs continues to add new experimental equipment and new research and development results appear, will they be able to attract more people. Influx into Bell Labs.

However, with Song Yang throwing money in, Bell Labs doesn't need to worry about the sudden shortage of food one day. The lab with people's hearts began to stabilize. Before leaving Bell's R&D staff, it stopped temporarily and continued. Stay in the lab and watch.

  As a "holy place" in the scientific research industry, as long as Bell Labs does not engage in rude operations and has stable experimental funds, it will take a few years for Bell Labs to slowly recover.

Song Yang didn't expect Bell Labs to be able to reach its peak state. Winning the Nobel Prize was like taking out something from a pocket. As long as it returned to the level of 60-70% in its peak period, all the beautiful knives that were put into it were not allowed to go to waste. Don't lose money!

"Java is the best programming language in the world, and now mainstream systems in the world have introduced Java technology, from Microsoft to Apple to IBM, as well as the Symbian system of Alcatel mobile phones, and of course the SUN system. Inside, Java is cross-platform supported!"

   "Java is not just a programming language, it is a passport to the computer world!"

   In a video, McNealy was standing in the center of the stage, shouting to the densely packed engineers from all over the world, causing thunderous applause from the scene.

   Watching the video, Bill Gates groaned and turned off the video on his computer. This video, from a clip from the Java Worldwide Developers Conference being held in San Francisco, was McNealy's opening speech.

In McNealy's words, for Microsoft, Apple, Linux, UNIX, Symbian, etc., a Java is enough. As long as a set of software is developed using Java, it can be ported across platforms, and there is no need to look at it in the future. What Microsoft looks like, as long as Java is enough.

   McNealy didn't say that he wanted to challenge Microsoft's system, but he aimed at Microsoft almost everywhere. Bill Gates really wanted to slap this kind of person who slapped his nose and face, and repeatedly jumped horizontally.

Bill Gates put his hands on his cheeks. He didn't know why so many people liked to regard Microsoft as their opponents. They didn't stop for so many years. Obviously no one beat him at all, but there were still so many people who came to die. .

If only they were like Song Yang. Bill Gates couldn't help but think that, although Song Yang also stumbled on Microsoft, and supported Netscape in private, these small actions Bill Gates watched. In his eyes, Song Yang never touched Microsoft's bottom line. In terms of PC operating systems, Song Yang was very knowledgeable and never tried it.

As for the mobile phone system, Bill Gates doesn't blame Song Yang. Microsoft has been tossing around in the mobile phone system industry for so many years, but they haven't come up with anything. As a result, the Saipan system occupies half of the mobile phone system, and Microsoft can only launch it. The WP system can handle it, which is not as good as others, and Bill Gates has nothing to say.

Song Yang did not miss out on sending good things to Microsoft. Hotmail saved Microsoft's life and allowed Microsoft to enter the Internet industry. Sega consoles allowed Microsoft to enter the coveted game console market. These are all real benefits, so Bill · Gates has no opinion on Song Yang.

   On the contrary, it's like Netscape, and McNealy's repeated horizontal jumps. Bill Gates really has the urge to do it. This jumps to his face. No matter how good the temperament of the richest man is, he can't bear it!

The door of the office was pushed open, and Microsoft Chief Technology Officer Myhrvold entered, putting a freshly published newspaper in front of Bill Gates, "You should look at this, Bruno Song, that kid, it's really luck Well, after getting Bell Labs, the Telegraph Group is really crazy, and Bell Labs can sell it!"

Myhrvold doesn't care about WorldCom, the Telephone and Telegraph Group, etc. Myhrvold is not interested in the mergers and acquisitions of tens of billions of dollars, but as a technician, he sees Song Yang taking Bell Labs into his pocket. , Myhrvold is a little thirsty...

If Microsoft can take down Bell Labs, then Myhrvold is confident that Microsoft Research will become the number one company-level laboratory in the world, and even the federal-level laboratory in America may not have touched it. It's possible!

  Bill Gates picked up the newspaper and glanced at it. He also understood that Song Yang's research and development capabilities were about to soar, but it was really hard to say how much it would be useful.

Microsoft has its own research institute, and it also spends a lot of R&D funds every year. However, after so many years, it has developed various so-called black technologies, and very few of them can be used. , take the opportunity to get stuck in your neck and use the patent to be disgusting.

Bell Labs is famous, but how much benefit it can bring to Song Yang, Bill Gates feels that it will take some time before he can slowly see that Bill Gates has not been too much about Song Yang. Worry.

   "Now is not the time to care about Bruno Song, Bruno Song is not Microsoft's current opponent!"

  Bill Gates turned the newspaper down and said to Myhrvold, "Now it's Sun and McNealy, Java has threatened the Microsoft system!"

  Today, Bill Gates came to Myhrvold, the technical president of Microsoft, to clean up McNealy.

McNealy couldn't help but hesitate when he heard what Bill Gates said. To be honest, Java is really convenient to use. Whether it is Microsoft itself or those developers, it is very convenient and low cost to have a set of general programming. many.

   "If Microsoft refuses to use Java, there will be trouble with Microsoft software developers, and most importantly, with SUN..."

   "You don't need to think about SUN and McNealy!" Bill Gates said decisively, and he was never soft-hearted when dealing with opponents.

   "Microsoft is going to implement its own programming language, so you should be ready?!"

  Myhrvold paused for a while, then nodded. Microsoft had been on guard against Sun for a long time, and had prepared a set of its own programming language, which was ready to replace Java at any time.

   "Microsoft extended the Java on the system, so that the programs written in Java can run on Microsoft systems, but cannot run on other platforms, and finally launched Microsoft's own programming language to completely replace Java!"

Bill Gates said to Myhrvold that he was going to use warm water to boil a frog and slowly kick Java out of the Microsoft system. By the time McNealy reacted, the daylily was already cold, and the rest was just around the corner. It's a lawsuit. This is too familiar to Microsoft. There are dozens of states in America, and there is no Microsoft who doesn't know which way the federal court in these states is open!

   (end of this chapter)