After the layoffs, I became a tech godfather

Chapter 140 This is really an unexpected gain
For these domestic software companies, the olive branch extended by Baiju Technology is like pie in the sky.

And this wasn’t just one pie, it was a rain of pies.

Ambitious enterprises will work hard to reach up, and if they can grab a few more pieces, that would be a huge fortune.

But unfortunately...

Some companies just don't make progress. When a pie falls on their heads, they don't even reach out to grab it. Instead, they shake their heads and drop the pie on the ground. It seems like they won't eat it until you put it in their mouths.

Huayang Software Co., Ltd. is such a company.

"Baiju Technology, haha! Isn't this just sitting in a row and sharing the fruits? Can our share be left out? Just do it casually!" This is how the general manager of Huayang Software characterized Baiju Technology's behavior this time - sit in a row and share the fruits.

As well-known listed companies among central enterprises, they believe that even if they do nothing, they will definitely have a part.

There are many companies like theirs, most of which are state-owned enterprises.

Their logic is very simple. Baiju Technology makes so much money that if they don't share the money, it would be equivalent to eating all the money for themselves, and those who eat all the money for themselves will not have a good ending.

Therefore, this time we are taking advantage of the opportunity of the take-off of domestic software to share the cake with everyone.

Huayang just held a meeting at its headquarters in Shuangqing City, where it circled out its share of the profits.

The R&D manager returned to the office and updated everyone on the situation.

"But Baiju Technology has already got a lot of the cake." You Xinjie, an intern R&D engineer who was just recruited from campus, said: "There are so many projects and opportunities in AI light entrepreneurship. Aren't they all spread by Baiju Technology itself?"

"You are right. Baiju Technology can do most of the AI light entrepreneurship projects by itself and keep the profits to itself. However, if these projects are distributed, it is not called sharing the cake. Look at who are the people involved in AI light entrepreneurship?

"Small and micro enterprises, individual entrepreneurs, middle-aged unemployed people, ordinary employees of the original company..."

Although the leader did not continue speaking, You Xinjie could see that his eyes seemed to be saying: Are these people also qualified to sit at the table?

At this moment, he suddenly felt as if he had come to the wrong place, and that the company might not get anything good this time in Linzhou.

……

In Linzhou, Hao Cheng's office was furious.

Just now, he and Xiaosha were evaluating the product plans and AI capability applications submitted by various companies.

Hao Cheng looked at one thing after another and shook his head more and more, his expression becoming more and more gloomy.

After a short while, the anger value had accumulated to the maximum: "Li Qingbo, come in!"

Without letting Xiaosha know, Hao Cheng made the call directly, then hung up after saying this.

Hao Cheng has always been very easy-going, and few people have ever seen him get angry with anyone. This is not only the case now, but also in his previous companies.

If he didn't like someone, the most he would do was stay away from him, but as for losing his temper, he had never done that before.

Even when OpenAI created new humans and almost caused an AI crisis, or when Baiju Technology was included in the list and Nvidia's computing power cards were completely banned from sale in China and could not be smuggled, Hao Chengdu did not show any abnormality.

Not to mention the appearance in front of him - this sudden thing today made Li Qingbo jump with fright.

This was the first time he had seen Hao Cheng look like this. Although he didn't say a word, he could feel the violence in the air even from dozens of meters away.

Li Qingbo even had a feeling that the stool next to him might be picked up by Hao Cheng at any time and hit him with it.

"Take a look at yourself. What the hell are these?" After a long while, Hao Cheng calmed down and said so.

Li Qingbo went over the project, but he was a business person after all, and the original purpose of recruiting him was to help him avoid some social engagements. It was understandable that he didn't understand many things.

But there is one thing that Hao Cheng cannot understand.

"The domestic software industry, especially the traditional state-owned enterprises in professional software, has limited capabilities. It is unlikely that they will do anything surprising."

Li Qingbo began to explain his thinking: "I think..."

Before Li Qingbo could finish, Hao Cheng interrupted him: "People may have different abilities, but at least they must have the attitude and determination, right?

"Their plan is great. Xiaosha can develop it. Xiaosha has powerful AI capabilities. Xiaosha can empower others. Xiaosha can do this and that...

"Xiaosha has done everything, so what else do we need them for? Does Baiju Technology have no hands? Or is Cao Song no longer able to type?

"Even if they regard this as the first stage and paint a picture for the second stage, I won't be so angry. These guys are pure bloodsuckers!"

Hao Cheng paused, took a sip of water, and then cursed: "And this, he actually wanted to give Xiaosha this ability to use exclusively, how dare he make such a request?"

Li Qingbo didn't need to look, he had already seen it when he was screening: Huayang International, a listed company mainly engaged in outsourcing and government projects.

The company's competitive advantages mentioned in their proposal: possessing exclusive small sand-related capabilities is the company's core competitiveness, which is unrivaled in the domestic and foreign markets.

At that time, Li Qingbo complained, is that your competitive advantage or Xiaosha's advantage?

However, Li Qingbo's considerations were biased at the time, and now it seems that he has misunderstood Hao Cheng's intentions.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Hao!" Li Qingbo said, "I misunderstood your arrangement."

"How do you understand it?" Hao Cheng asked curiously, "Do you think I'm going to make friends? So what if I'm making friends? The friend of a friend is the same on both sides.

"Some of them came here so eagerly. I'm afraid they came here with the mentality of 'sit in a row and share the fruit'? Do they really think they are kindergarten children?"

Xiaosha is so powerful. If you combine it with your own software, wouldn’t it be a world-class software?
It doesn’t matter how badly you do it, can’t Xiaosha turn decay into magic?

International market? No matter what you do, the market share won’t be bad!

If you succeed, it will be an achievement. As for failure, there is no such possibility. Even if you take a step back, even if you really fail, the blame will be on Xiaosha.

Although Hao Cheng had never worked in a state-owned software company, he could tell what the situation was like by looking at its work style.

If this kind of work style were to occur in other industries, it would have been rectified long ago.

However, the software and operating system industry has its own particularities. For the sake of network security and controllable autonomy, the country provides support every year. Not to mention the investment of real money, a considerable amount of money is spent every year on procurement in the field of information technology alone.

However, after so many years, has there been any improvement? It is still stuck in the field of information technology and has no competitiveness in the civilian market.

Moreover, they have excuses: foreign countries started earlier, we started late, the market has been occupied, and we have no room for development at all.

Have you tried hard? Hao Cheng didn't dare to draw this conclusion before, but now, he understands it clearly - they are provided with such good conditions, and the pie is thrown on their faces, but they can only open their mouths and don't even stretch out their hands.

"This time, we will adjust our subsequent plans." Hao Cheng changed his mind. Some companies cannot be led:
"We will mainly support ambitious private enterprises. In addition, no matter the size, as long as they have ideas, we will give them priority support."

Relying on the huge domestic market, there are several giant domestic Internet companies. However, when it comes to professional software industry software, even including office software, the only well-known ones that can occupy a certain share in the civilian market are Kingsoft and 360.

As for industry software, there are some such as UFIDA and Kingdee, but their market size is far behind that of similar foreign companies.

Since Baiju Technology is making such a big move at this time, it is definitely not a small move, but it is taking this opportunity to take control of all industry software, including operating systems, databases, development tools, ERP, CRM and even EDA and other fields, as well as mathematical software, industrial software, etc.

These things are usually inconspicuous, but their roles at critical moments are even no less than chips.

For example, when Harbin Institute of Technology was included in the restricted list, the one that was most affected was a mathematical software called MATLAB, and there was no alternative in China.

As for Huawei, its chip design was restricted for a long time due to the ban on EDA, and there were no domestic alternatives. In the end, they had to develop a solution on their own.

"The chip production problem cannot be solved in a short period of time." Hao Cheng looked at Li Qingbo in front of him:

“So, we need to take advantage of this opportunity to sort out all the potential problems, so that when the chip problem is solved, we don’t want other problems to arise.

"If this were a war, what we would be doing now would be storing up food and fodder, and sitting here sharing fruits, thinking we were playing house!"

Hao Cheng was talking about some disappointing state-owned enterprises and software companies, but Li Qingbo always felt his face turn red and white, because that was also his initial understanding.

"Okay, help me make an appointment with Lin Wen from Mongo System and Yan Shi from Instant Image."

These two are the few companies that can still give Hao Cheng surprises, especially Lin Wen, whom Hao Cheng is deeply impressed by.

Of course, this profound impression was not only left this time, Hao Cheng had known him for a long time.

Not even two hours later, Lin Wen arrived at Hao Cheng's office, and Hao Cheng's first words were: "I used your Ghost XP and Ghost Win7 back then."

These words made Lin Wen very excited.

Although Ghost XP was just a pirated WinXP mirror, relying on built-in pre-installed software and advertisements to earn a little income, but at that time, if we really counted the market share, this thing's market share was even higher than that of genuine Windows.

"I remember very clearly that the market for Ghost was not easy at that time," Hao Cheng began.

"Yes," Lin Wen did not avoid the dark history of making pirated software, but continued: "There were many competitors at that time, such as Deepin, Lao Maotao and so on.

"But we also have core competitiveness."

A person who makes pirated software said that he has core competitiveness. Hao Cheng not only did not refute, but also nodded:

“I know that you have done a lot of peripheral work, including some unofficial drivers, especially some AMD graphics card drivers, which are better than the official ones and solve many blue screen and driver failure problems.

"Many of the extended functions are very creative. I remember that you guys first made a one-click fool-proof driver detection and installation, right?"

Making pirated systems can solve the problems that neither Microsoft nor AMD could solve. It is said that later Microsoft and AMD even bought related solutions from them. Who would believe this if told to anyone?
But this is what happened, and it was Lin Wen who did it.

Later, no one used Ghost anymore, so Lin Wen registered Mango Technology to develop the Mongo operating system based on the Linux kernel. Needless to say, they optimized the kernel a lot.

This is also the reason why Hao Cheng is very fond of Lin Wen, who is a very capable technical geek.

It is true that Mongo is a Linux distribution, but they do not use a pure Linux kernel, but a self-maintained branch that has been modified many times.

It was not completely separated only for the purpose of compatibility with Linux and obtaining a wider software ecosystem.

But how should I put it? Some of the technology is over the top.

Many functions have gone too far in the direction of showing off. When professionals see them, they may exclaim: Awesome!

However, for ordinary users, the usability is not very good, so they are very popular in the community and have nearly 10 million users, but ordinary users don't pay attention to Mongo.

Hao Cheng is neither a tech geek nor a tech fanatic, and he doesn't think a system needs any threshold.

The goal of Baiju Technology is to make it accessible to everyone, including elderly people in rural areas and even illiterate and semi-literate people.

"So, I just have one question: Are you ready to make a truly user-oriented operating system?" Hao Cheng asked.

"I've had enough fun, and it's time to think about the future." Lin Wen did not give a direct answer, but said this. Playing with technology and community, you get more emotional value, but you don't make much money!

He is seven years older than Hao Cheng. He is almost 40 years old and still single. It is time for him to consider making some money.

"So, what are your plans?" Hao Cheng asked.

"Can I join Baiju Technology?"

Hao Cheng almost spit out a mouthful of water. He really didn't expect that Lin Wen's plan would be this.

But on second thought, it is quite suitable. Not to mention what needs to be done now, in the future, when there is a new chip architecture, there will definitely be new instruction sets and new types of operating systems. This is a ready-made person with experience.

"Are you quitting Mongo?" Hao Cheng asked.

"The Mongo community has nearly 10 million people, and everyone plays together." Lin Wen said as a matter of course: "That's life. I heard that Baiju Technology works from 9 to 5 and has two days off. There is plenty of time."

"If you really want to do it, I will definitely agree. Your current team can all join."

Hao Cheng had learned a little about Lin Wen's team before. There were only ten people in total. As a team brought together by technology, their abilities must be good.

"To be honest, our goal this time is to become a member of Baiju Technology." Lin Wen spoke the truth. This was what he had originally planned, but he didn't expect that it would be realized before he even started.

"Okay then." Hao Cheng nodded, called Cao Song over, and introduced Lin Wen to him: "This is Lin Wen. Give him all the questions you have collected from users about Windows and Linux."

“This is your and your team’s probationary assignment. Pull out a Mongo branch and solve all the problems. You will be hired as a full-time employee after completion.

"By the way, don't worry about the current Linux ecosystem. In the PC field, Linux doesn't have much of an ecosystem. Xiaosha's system-level plug-in will directly solve the ecosystem problem." Hao Cheng said finally.

"Okay!" Just like that, the two sides quickly reached a consensus.

Lin Wen found a home for the team, and Hao Cheng gained an excellent team that has made achievements in the field of operating systems.

This wave is a win-win situation. Even the unhappiness accumulated earlier has disappeared at this time.

This is really an unexpected gain.

(End of this chapter)