Rebirth of the Tech Madman

The reason why Morita Akio became the soul of Sony is because of his contribution to Sony's entry into the US market and the internationalization of the Sony brand.

At Akio Morita's current age, since he has suffered a stroke, it means that he is very likely to retire, and Sony will change his dynasty accordingly.

"I'm sending an old man off the stage of history again." Tang Huan resisted the "proud" of his age advantage, and in an extremely sincere tone instructed Masako Hetian, "I'm so busy here in the United States that I can't get away. , You will visit Shengtian on my behalf and wish him a speedy recovery and continue to lead Sony forward."

Masako Hetian obediently promised: "I will send your sincere greetings 100%."

After explaining Wada Masako, Tang Huan asked his assistant to pay attention to Sony’s high-level changes. Since the president of Akio Morita has fallen, Oga Norio will naturally come up as usual, and the vacated president position must be indispensable. Fierce competition.

After finishing the instructions, he turned his mind back.

In November of this year, the richest man has two main activities-attending the Comdex Las Vegas Fall Fair and the first summit of apec.

The former is an annual industry event, and its importance is self-evident, but it is already familiar with it; on the contrary, the latter is a small challenge to Tang Huan, who is used to seeing the big scenes.

apec is the abbreviation of asia-pacific_ in English of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Conference. From its establishment to the present, it has reached its fifth year.

The special feature of this year's apec summit is that the first four years were ministerial level, this year it was upgraded to leader level for the first time, and it came to the United States for the first time, held in Seattle, a Pacific port city on the west coast.

Among apec's many organizations, there is one called the Pacific Business Forum. Its main task is to provide ideas and suggestions for APEC trade and investment freedom, economic and technical cooperation, and create a favorable business environment, and submit consulting reports to leaders and ministerial meetings.

This organization encourages business people to participate in the APEC cooperation process, and each APEC member sends three representative business people as representatives, and the chairman is the host of the year-Tang Huan currently serves as concurrently. Got this post.

Therefore, although the richest man has a large team of assistants and consultants, he is still very busy. There are a lot of speeches alone, and he really has no time to visit Akio Morita, who fell in a blink of an eye.

The time of the comdex Las Vegas autumn exhibition and the apec summit summit is not generally tight, but directly next to each other-from November 15th to November 19th, it is comdex; November 19th to November 20th is apec.

According to the schedule, the richest man will only give Comdex the day of November 15th, and then fly directly to Seattle.

Gein, although the apec summit will not be held until November 19, it is at the leader level that only cares about major issues, and the specific preparations will fall on the ministerial meeting held in advance and the forum of business leaders. .

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Facts have proved that although comdex was transferred to rb Softbank, the exhibition was not affected by the changes and was still booming. In addition to holding the spring exhibition in Atlanta this year, it also went to Toronto in Canada and Brazil in the southern hemisphere. Sao paulo.

However, under the lively appearance, there are endless grievances and grudges from Shang Haien-for example, just under the nose of the richest man, Novell CEO Raymond Norda had a weird conversation with Gates.

Speaking of which, Gates is becoming more and more unscrupulous.

Some time ago, Microsoft and Novell had a secret contact. On the grounds of increasingly fierce competition in the software industry, it was proposed that the two companies should simply merge, so as to avoid mutual attacks and create a complementary advantage.

Raymond Norda was really moved. After all, as the Fangyuan computer standard becomes the mainstream, the market space for cross-platform software is getting smaller and smaller. Everyone must face the direct competition of philosophers, and the "weak and weak alliance" is not a problem. A good way to become bigger and stronger.

Since Lang is interested in his concubine, the two parties will sign a non-disclosure agreement and sit down and have a good talk.

As a result, after Microsoft had similarly applied Novell's trade secrets, it started Tai Chi on the grounds of price, power distribution, and board opinions.

After realizing that he was being tricked, Raymond Norda's anger turned into anger can be imagined. Seeing that look, he couldn't wait to bite Gates.

Novell has now increased its capital operations. After acquiring a digital research company and filling in the blanks of the general operating system, novell has targeted the acquisition of word processing, spreadsheets and other software in an attempt to create an all-round software kingdom. .

Due to the great changes in the industry's ecology, a company that relies on a software product to make a living is becoming more and more difficult to mix. The once-fascinating word processing software wordperfect was sold to Novell.

These industry secrets can't escape the eyes and ears of the richest man naturally, and he sneered at them-Raymond Norda frequently makes acquisitions. Have you ever wondered how novell's digestive ability is?

In addition, Gates' methods are too overcast, and no one can stand it.

In fact, only relying on technical competition, Novell's leading product-the network suite netware, will not go too far.

The function provided by netware is indeed remarkable, but it has a drawback, that is, the network protocol used is not the standard Internet protocol tcp/ip, but the proprietary ipx/spx.

If the product application scenario is only in terms of local area network, no matter ipx/spx or tcp/ip, the problem is not big; but the Internet becomes the mainstream is the general trend, not using tcp/ip, it is equivalent to not speaking English in the United States is restricted .

But if you want to change tcp/ip from a paper specification to actual code, the process is not that simple-firstly, tcp/ip itself is a complex and constantly improving protocol system; secondly, in the code preparation process, programmers You also need to have a good understanding of the bottom of the system, and non-senior ones are not competent.

Up to now, the most recognized implementation of tcp/ip code is Zheru’s tcp/ip development kit. The runtime library is not only stable, but also efficient in execution. It also provides rich and powerful for third-party development. Function interface.

In other words, netware that has used ipx/spx for so many years is now very difficult to switch to tcp/ip.

On the other hand, Microsoft has built-in a free network suite with functions similar to netware directly in windows_nt, and it does not give Novell any time to transition at all.

It can be said that these conspiracies on the bright side alone are enough to make Novell's development difficult to sustain, but Gates is still making small moves, which has to make Tang Huan raise a level of vigilance.

The Internet, which has entered the fast lane of development, has even greater benefits. It is hard to guarantee that Gates, who appears to be obsessed with the richest man, does not want to oppose him.

Tang Huan wondered in his heart that the position of her second child might not satisfy Microsoft's appetite, and listened to Gates' announcement of his marriage with a smile on his face.

"I will definitely be there to congratulate you by then." The richest man laughed and joked: "Should I help you hold a bachelor party here in San Francisco?"

"Forget it. Now I am less and less interested in playing." Gates shook his head-he is getting more and more serious, and it seems that like Jobs, it is difficult to find close friends.

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Compared with Microsoft's current stage in the software market, which is busy grabbing the operating system, office software, and programming development tools, Tang Huan continues to enthusiastically recommend Zheru's web browser polestar and website server zis.

In terms of marketing, the back-end zis follows the rules. Depending on the version, the price ranges from US$6,000 to US$25,000, but the front-end polestar played a gimmick, that is, boasting that the official version is priced at US$999, while always using the beta version. The name is free for users to use. I saw that the version numbers were all over 1, but the beta version was not upgraded to the official version. This made those commercial companies who intend to enter the browser field to be suspicious and dare not act.

However, those research institutions with federal funding are another matter, especially after the passage of the Gore Act of 1991, they have sufficient funds to support research without fear of wasting resources.

This is the case with the National Supercomputer Application Center of the University of Illinois. A subordinate technical team completed this year a World Wide Web browser-mosaic that supports Fangyuan Computer, Unix, ibm-pc, and Apple Computer at the same time.

For this reason, the University of Illinois has been bragging about it, and it has even been sought after by the mainstream media.

This year's comdex, mosaic was brought over to show off-to be more precise, it was brought to the exhibition by the authorized technology and trademark.

This company was founded in 1990 and belongs to a branch of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Its purpose is to establish commercialization and technical support for the National Supercomputer Application Center there.

Therefore, getting the authorization from mosaic means that the meat is rotten in a pot.

The current World Wide Web browser is the polestar of philosophers. With its mature technology and free gimmicks, it has thrived. It scares other commercial companies not to invest resources and compete in this very unfamiliar and unclear field.

In this case, there is a mosaic that can run on four hardware platforms at the same time, which is quite eye-catching.

Among the visitors who shuttled back and forth, there was a young man in his early twenties, staring at the mosaic logo from a distance, with an angry expression on his face from time to time.

He is the former organizer of the mosaic development team-Mark Anderson, who has just graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and accepted a job from a small California company with an annual salary of $80,000-which is considered for a graduated undergraduate. Get a high salary.

In fact, Mark Anderson's technology is far from the standards of outstanding programmers. His brilliance is that he can speak good at a young age. It can be said that he can touch another true technical master, who is seven years older than him. Master graduate, Eric Biner, works for the mosaic project.

This combination is very similar to what Jobs did to Woz at the beginning of Apple's business.

Mark Anderson's programs are always lumpy and faulty, coupled with restlessness, so in the National Supercomputer Application Center at the University of Illinois, the relationship with his boss is not very harmonious.

No matter where ~www.readwn.com~ there is a world-after the cross-platform mosaic is officially released, the leaders want to take credit for themselves and dilute the existence of the R&D team. The natural basis is that all R&D resources are ours. which provided.

It is conceivable that Mark Anderson was marginalized, and formed a strong contrast with the praise he won on the Internet, coupled with the unique blood of the age of twenty Lang, so he left as soon as he graduated— —Master will not take care of you anymore.

Now that I see mosaic in the hands of others, Mark Anderson, who has devoted a lot of effort to it, is not an exaggeration to say that it is a mixed bag.

At this time, an uncertain question came from the side: "Are you Mark Anderson?"

"I'm Anderson, you are..." Mark Anderson looked for his reputation, and saw that he was a well-dressed middle-aged man, like a very successful person.

"Jim Clark, the Silicon Valley graphics company that makes professional graphics workstations, was created by me." Jim Clark replied gracefully.

In fact, this man has been swept out by the company he founded because of huge differences in product market positioning.

But he didn't mention this problem at all, he just said in surprise: "It turned out to be you. I just emailed you two days ago. Did you receive it?"

Feeling the warmth coming from his face, Mark Anderson scratched his head a little uncomfortably, "I'm busy coming to Las Vegas to see comdex, so I don't have time to check emails."

"It doesn't matter. Since we have encountered it, it is better to talk face-to-face." Jim Clark graciously invited: "The comdex industry forum is about to begin. There will be a lot of latest industry trends, which is worthy of careful reference. Why not We walked and talked."