Chapter 142 Standardization
In the conference room on the third floor of NGN Company, a dozen blond and blue-eyed programmers gathered together.
The curtains in the conference room were tightly closed, and in the dim light, the huge projection screen looked extremely clear, even a little dazzling.
At this moment, what is displayed on the screen is a simple and speechless PPT. As for the content of this PPT, it is so novel that it is shocking, because the things it introduces are the previous ones. Genius has just been announced by Google as an open source operating system called "Android".
Today, the source code of this operating system has been placed on the Apache server. Any computer in the world can access and use it. There is no need to worry about copyright issues, because Google uploads the source code at the same time. , an open source license has also been uploaded.
In order to promote this new operating system, Google has made a huge investment. Not only the investment, it even paid a huge price. On the day when Google launched "Android", it announced that it would establish a global organization with an alliance to develop a common standard.
However, despite the great momentum created by Google and the momentum of "I can do it, I can do it, I can do it", the global market is generally not optimistic about it, thinking that Google is The investment made in this operating system is completely to lose money and make money, and their efforts will have no effect.
Why?
The answer is simple. In today's world, the king of systems in the field of mobile communication equipment is the "Symbian system" that everyone needs to look up to. Last year, the number of mobile phones using the Symbian system in the world exceeded The key is that Nokia, the king of mobile phones, strongly supports the Symbian system. There are even rumors that Nokia is preparing to acquire Symbian.
If nothing else, among the mobile phone brands in the world today, which one does not use Symbian system? There are only BlackBerry and Apple, which just emerged this year. And how much share of the mobile phone market do these two brands of mobile phones occupy?
The mobile phone operating program market in this world is completely dominated by Symbian. The market generally believes that this pattern is unlikely to change in the short term.
In other words, if Google jumps out to cause trouble at this time, it is completely nonsense and has no future.
Furthermore, when Google acquired the Android team, it spent a lot of money. In the following two years, its investment in this project was also not small. Now that I have finally come up with something, I don’t want to repay the cost by charging licensing fees, or even make a fortune, but suddenly announced the open source and uploaded the source code to the Internet.
What, Google stopped doing IT and started doing charity instead? How is this possible.
To put it bluntly, the reason why Google promotes open source for the Android operating system is, on the one hand, because it has its own business layout considerations, and on the other hand, because in the field of mobile operating systems, it is faced with the challenge of The crushing advantage of the class company.
Google has attracted so many mobile phone manufacturers and software vendors around the world to form the so-called mobile alliance. The conditions it provides are that the Android system is open source and does not charge system licensing fees from mobile phone manufacturers. With Symbian having an absolute advantage, Google can only attract partners by offering free services. If it also charges, in a situation where Symbian is almost dominating the world, Android probably won't even be able to survive.
Even so, in the global Internet market, and even in the entire IT industry, there are not many companies that are really optimistic about the prospects of Android. The reason why so many companies have joined the alliance created by Google is mainly because of Android. The system does have merit, and it's free.
However, no matter what the outside world thinks of the Android system, as a time traveler, An Rusong is indeed very optimistic about it. In fact, the reason why he came up with such an NGN software was not to compete with it. Instant messaging software such as Tencent, ICQ or MSN are competing on the PC side, and their direct target has always been the mobile side.
So, at this point when the Android system was just launched, An Rusong summoned more than a dozen programmers in the company. In the next four to six months, these programmers The secondary task of programmers is to move the PC-side NGN software to the Android system, that is, to develop an Android version of the NGN software.
Under the condition that the Android operating system is open source, it is not that difficult to achieve this task. For An Rusong today, the most important thing is to wait for the first The birth of the first Android phone.
As for why the task of porting NGN software to the Android system is a secondary task for Maozi programmers, the only reason is that Maozi programmers already have a very critical task being performed, which is related to A subsequent major version update of the NGN software is closely related, and An Rusong attaches great importance to it. The most important thing is that this task has made certain progress.
A mission briefing meeting lasted for nearly two hours and did not end until close to noon. Before the meeting was officially declared to be over, An Rusong also announced a decision: considering the current situation of NGN software With the great success achieved, the company is planning to raise the salary of all Maozi programmers, and increase everyone's salary by 20% at one time.
In addition, An Rusong also announced that the company has begun to consider accepting financing and stock exchange. In order to ensure the interests of every employee of the company, he plans to spend 10% of all the company's shares. Two to five percent to build an equity pool. They, the veterans of the company, will all receive part of the equity in the equity pool.
The two resolutions he announced naturally attracted collective cheers from the Maozi programmers. However, An Rusong was not doing charity. He was just trying to win over these programmers, using more pleasant words. According to him, this is increasing the cohesion of the company. After driving a group of cheering old men out of the conference room, An Rusong simply tidied up the podium, took his laptop and returned to the office.
It was already half past eleven, and most of the company's employees had already gone to have lunch. Only the Maozi programmers, who had just ended the meeting, were still packing their things at their workstations.
Now, the company's operation is completely on track, and even the general affairs work has someone in charge. As the president's assistant, Jiang Xiuyuan currently serves as the director of the general affairs office.
In order to support his mistress, An Rusong made a decision after Jiang Xiuyuan joined the company. The latter signed a catering contract with several nearby caterers. Anyone who lived in the company For dormitory staff, breakfast, lunch and dinner are provided by the company free of charge every day.
Of course, An Rusong himself rarely dines in the company, mainly because he has been busy in recent days and does not spend much time in the company, let alone eating in the company.
It was the same today. He had already agreed with Han Meiyan that he would go to the Sacred Heart Hospital to accompany her at noon today. As a man, you have to keep your word, so he simply tidied up in the office and then went out. .
Also in the past few days, An Rusong has been in contact with Han Meiyan more frequently. Since Liu Taiming became paralyzed, this woman has completely let herself go. She really rejected the offer from the Sacred Heart Hospital. Liu Taiming suggested nerve restoration surgery because she could not let her husband take that kind of risk. After all, the success rate of surgery was only 70%.
Han Meiyan's decision to refuse the hospital's surgery for her husband naturally brought her some criticism from the outside world, especially within the Liu family, where there were many voices criticizing her. But these accusations mainly believed that she refused the operation because she was worried that Liu Taiming would die during the operation, which would prevent her from receiving Liu Taimin's inheritance. However, no one attributed the reason for Liu Taiming's death to her.
Currently, the biggest suspect in the murder of Liu Taiming is still Liu Taihe. The injury on the latter’s leg actually does not hinder his actions, but this guy wanted to avoid being summoned by the prosecutor. , has been staying in the hospital and refusing to come out. At the same time, he has also resorted to various means to calm the situation, including compromise with Han Meiyan.
In the past few days, Han Meiyan has been negotiating with Liu Taihe. The two parties have reached a final settlement on the equity issue of Damoshan Holdings. In addition to these equity interests, I heard that Han Meiyan can also get More than ten properties donated by Liu Taihe.
Of course, An Rusong didn't know the more specific situation, because although Han Meiyan let him sleep with her and agreed to any shameful gesture or request, as long as money was involved, she He refused to reveal anything to An Rusong. Even now, An Rusong doesn't know how much money this woman made from Apple's stocks.
At the entrance of Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital, An Rusong drove his Mercedes-Benz into the main entrance. When he was about to enter the underground parking lot, he saw several people walking from the direction of the inpatient building in Building D. The target Apparently this is also the parking lot.
At this time, there were many people in the hospital compound, so An Rusong didn't pay attention to those people. He directly found a parking space and parked the car.
Just when he got off the car, the group of people happened to walk to the entrance of the parking lot, and the two parties walked directly opposite each other.
Even at this time, An Rusong did not notice this group of people. He was fiddling with the car keys in his hand and walked quickly with his head down.
"Hey! Mr. An!" Just when the two parties were about to pass each other, a woman in the group of people opposite suddenly said.
An Rusong still didn't stop. He didn't realize that the other party was talking to him at all.
"Mr. An," the woman called him again. This time, not only did the woman speak, but a young man who was following him also stretched out his hand to block An Rusong's face.
An Rusong stopped when the young man reached out his hand to stop him. He looked up at the young man, then turned to look at the woman, and said in surprise: "Are you talking to me?"< br>
(End of this chapter)