Video Game Empire

The original one-month honeymoon trip finally turned into a month and a half. Li Xuan and Zhong Chuhong have played all the places in Europe that can be played. In the future, except for business trips, Li Xuan feels that he is no longer interested in traveling to Europe.

When he returned to Hong Kong, he became lazy and seemed to have not adjusted from the state of the previous vacation. Of course, Li Xuan is the boss, and naturally no one dares to criticize anything. In fact, he has already entered the working state, but now he is a little different from before, and it seems that he has another level of understanding of life.

Most men will become mature and stable after they get married, and Li Xuan is obviously a small part of that special. He used to be too stable, obviously only in his early twenties, and he felt like an old man in his 40s and 50s.

In the past year or two, Li Xuan has been the most popular figure in Hong Kong. But his high-profile appearances are mostly due to the crazy performance of Dongfang Electronics Company. Every time it appears in the newspaper page, it is associated with financial news.

And other wealthy boys of the same age as him, who appeared in the newspapers or made scandals because of picking up girls, or quarreling because of racing and getting rich, in short, they were all young and frivolous. In addition to business news, Li Xuan's private life rarely appears in the newspapers. On the contrary, Zhong Chuhong has always been sought after by fashion and entertainment magazines.

"So everyone was persuaded by Dean Huo, and they all agreed to split?" Li Xuan reclined on the executive chair, with his feet crossed on the desk in front of him.

"Yes, Dean Huo believes that if East-Future develops well enough and can really monopolize the entire personal computer operating system market, then its independent split is inevitable. Because if the same company has other software, it is easy Gaining an unequal competitive advantage by taking advantage of the monopoly position of the East-System. This will definitely lead to antitrust investigations!" Collene put it before a senior executives meeting. Huo Qiuxing, Dean of the Oriental Economic Research Institute, reiterated his views to his boss.

Li Xuan nodded slightly, he had communicated with Huo Qiuxing a long time ago. The operating system is the most important medium for communication between hardware and software, between computers and users. After the launch of the East-system, relying on its relatively simple and convenient command control mode, people who do not know programming only need to remember the commonly used commands and can easily control the computer. This greatly promotes the personal computer to enter people's daily life and office.

Another time and space. Compared with the easier-to-use Windows system, it saves the user the steps of memorizing various instructions, and can operate the computer with just a few clicks of the mouse. This is the most important basis for the computer to enter thousands of households.

It is through systems and systems that Microsoft has achieved its **** of the computer industry. It is also through the monopoly of the operating system that its software successfully defeated Lotus-2-3. Its IE browser successfully killed Netscape's (Navigator) browser.

And Microsoft was sued by the US Department of Justice for this, and was almost dismembered. This is known as the most influential "trial of the century" in the twentieth century in the United States, and finally let Microsoft escape. However, as a foreign company, Dongfang Software is estimated to have not developed to the level of Microsoft, and anti-monopoly lawsuits have come one after another.

"President Huo said, we are a foreign company. Without the support of a strong government background, the strategy in overseas markets should not be a market monopoly, but a market leader. Seeking to gain fair competition with local enterprises on the table The opportunity is the first priority we need to achieve!" Ke Lilun continued.

Li Xuan nodded, although this sounds a little helpless, but it is the truth. Any large-scale market competition is never purely commercial competition. There are also various complex factors behind it, such as political interference.

It is precisely because of this that Dongfang Electronics under the leadership of Li Xuan has been striving to climb the technology tree, and its technological leadership can largely offset the off-site moves of its competitors. Moreover, the industries that Li Xuan chose for Dongfang Electronics Co., Ltd. were all emerging industries that were still blank before. These industries do not have very powerful vested interests that can give Dongfang Electronics enough time to grow.

Today's Dongfang Electronics Co., Ltd. has grown into a strong player in the game and computer industry that cannot be ignored. In terms of games, Dongfang Games has established its position through several head-to-head encounters with Sega in the arcade field; it has shown its strength by confronting Atari in the home game console; as for the handheld field. It is even more so that Dugu seeks defeat, almost monopolizing the market.

In the field of computers, Aikang has become a well-deserved leader in the personal computer market through a series of computers, which has shaken off competitors such as Apple. In fact, Li Xuan did not integrate chip manufacturing, software development, and computer production. It has already taken into account the antitrust problems that may be encountered in the future.

The current Dongfang Software Company and Dongfang Research Institute not only provide priority technical support to Aikang, but also provide support to other computer manufacturers. Although this is detrimental to the interests of Aikang, Dongfang Electronics Co., Ltd. has quickly occupied most of the market with its own processors and software by catching up with Aikang by other computer manufacturers.

In this case, even if a monopoly is formed, it is a technological monopoly rather than a commercial monopoly. In Western law, technological monopoly is allowed, because such monopoly is difficult to maintain for a long time. For example, after a period of time, when other companies' processors come out, the ERM-1 processor of the Oriental Research Institute will encounter strong competition.

And ERM processors want to reject this kind of competition, the most effective way is naturally to let East-system not provide technical support for other processors. But this involves market monopoly and will be regarded as unfair competition.

Compared with the precarious situation faced by ERM, East-system has gradually begun to form a commercial monopoly in addition to its technological leadership. But this monopoly is not deliberately done by Eastern companies, but the result of natural selection by other third-party software companies. Because other software is compatible with each operating system, it takes a lot of effort to modify the program, which means a lot of extra costs. Software companies have little incentive to actively develop compatible software for new operating systems, which is what East-'s new competitors are. Strong barriers to entry were erected.

Even the U.S. Department of Justice has no excuse for this kind of commercial monopoly to trouble the Eastern Software Company. However, if Eastern Software Company uses the monopoly position of East-System to sell other products of its own company, it involves bundled sales, which naturally falls within the scope of anti-monopoly.

In fact, Eastern Software is doing this now. For example, text software that is used very frequently in personal computers. East-system users have only one option to use East-, and text software developed by other companies such as -Star (Text Star) cannot be compatible with East-system at all. East Software is now in the early stages of rapid development, so it is not very visible to do so, but when East- fully dominates the market, it will be immediately targeted if it continues to do so.

Li Xuan opened the folder and put it on his lap. Quickly signed his name on a document inside. This is the split plan document of Dongfang Software Company. After he nods and agrees, Dongfang Software Company will be officially split into Dongfang Application Software Company and Dongfang System Software Company.

In fact, when he was on vacation before, after receiving the discussion results of the senior managers' meeting, he had already agreed to the split of Dongfang Software Company, and today he just officially signed the relevant documents. Oriental Software Company has already started to follow the split plan. Restart negotiations with IBM. After careful consideration, IBM finally decided to accept Dongfang Electronics' offer to buy a 25% stake in the newly established Dongfang System (a software company) for $300 million.

At the same time, two companies with the same valuation after the split will each take out 25% of the shares for cross-shareholding. That is to say, in the newly established Dongfang System (software company), Dongfang Technology Holding Company holds 50% of the shares, and Dongfang Application (software company) and IBM each hold 25% of the shares. Oriental App's holdings. Let it continue to enjoy the priority support of the East-system for other software.

"By the way, Sir Hawke called and said that he would fly to Hong Kong the day after tomorrow to have in-depth communication with you on the next development of Aikang Company!" Ke Lilun took over the documents signed by Li Xuan. , and continued.

"Oh?" Li Xuan smiled, "At the previous manager's meeting, Hawke had plans to let Aikang Company join the shareholder system?"

"Yes, Sir Hawke had such a plan at that time! But including President Han, President Huo and others, they all believed that there was a problem with Aikang. The point is not whether to join the shareholder system, but to manage with Aikang. Do you intend to distance yourself from other oriental companies in Hong Kong!" Ke Lilun nodded and said.

Aikang has always been the company with the weakest control of Li Xuan in the entire Oriental Group. After Li Xuan acquired British Aikang, he hurriedly listed on the London Stock Exchange before he could fully digest it. And for the recognition of either the UK and European capital markets. Most of the managers Li Xuan chose when setting up the management of listed companies were British professional managers. Their personal communication with Li Xuan is far less frequent than that of the executives of other subsidiaries.

After the listing of Aikang, both the stock price and the actual sales have been rising, which has performed very well, but this has also contributed to the pride of some executives. They believe that if the company did not aggressively choose to disclose the technical information of the -3 computer, icon's current performance should be better~www.readwn.com~Because since March this year, there have been compatible machines for the -3 computer one after another. IPO. Although they are all unknown small brands, they did not have a big impact on the sales of the series of computers, but the management of Aikang has been able to meet the fierce level of competition in the future.

This also made some people dissatisfied with Hawke and Han Peng who proposed to disclose the technical data of the -3 computer. With the support of some minority shareholders, they asked Aikang to adopt a more independent development strategy, such as reducing its dependence on the Oriental Research Institute and expanding the scale of the Cambridge R&D Center.

When Li Xuan acquired the British company Ikon, he combined the Cambridge R&D team and the Hong Kong computer R&D team into one. The original -1 series of computers was the result of the cooperation between the two teams. While Aikang has been expanding the scale of its Cambridge R&D center recently, the Hong Kong R&D center has been ignored.

To the centrifugal forces within these companies, Albert Hawke, the CEO, has been appeasing and compromising. Now, since he is going to come to Hong Kong to communicate with Li Xuan, it is time to get rid of these small trash fish. If his ideas can't satisfy Li Xuan, Li Xuan doesn't mind using the rights of the controlling shareholder to change the entire management! (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point () to vote for recommendation and monthly tickets. Your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile users, please read it.)