Global Monopoly of Technology

Zhang Bowen complained in his heart, and after a while, Samuel Palmisano looked at the other party and added: "Your company is planning to make a big splash in the cloud... oh yes, cloud computing field, this should not be the final investment. size?"

Strange to say, Palmisano is a little puzzled, why do Luo Sheng and Jeff Bezos like cloud computing so much?

Amazon also said that in the past, but Bluestar Technology has played such a big game when it comes up, and it is obvious that it firmly believes that this concept that has been born for nearly 20 years has great potential.

The question is, the concept of more than 20 years ago is still the same, is it really promising?

If it is still a bird in 20 years, Bluestar Technology Group will probably cry to death.

It's crazy to invest so much in an area that is still unclear.

But what does Samuel Palmisano think this has to do with IBM? Money is not a bastard.

Zhang Bowen said with a smile: "To be honest, it is not the final investment. In the future, we will continue to invest in building data centers, no accident at least five to ten years or even longer, and the average investment will be the same scale every year."

Oh my God! !

When Samuel Palmisano heard this sentence, the whole person was stunned.

After ten years of continuous investment, doesn't it mean that Bluestar Technology Group intends to invest here, and if IBM can become its partner, it can earn more than 30 billion US dollars from this company?

At this moment, Samuel Palmisano stared at Zhang Bowen, who made a smile. The IBM CEO's heart was thumping at the moment, but he was still very calm on the surface.

"Are you sure this isn't a joke?"

Samuel Palmisano couldn't help but ask again, wanting to double-check.

"It is absolutely true, we can sign a strategic agreement with a liquidated damages of 3 billion US dollars." Zhang Bowen responded with great certainty again. When he came to talk with IBM's people, Luo Sheng explained that he boldly signed with the other party, Bluestar Technology is not afraid. On the contrary, after five to ten years, the North American authorities will be thankful for not interfering.

It was IBM that defaulted at that time.

sign!

Must sign!

this moment,

Samuel Palmisano roared inwardly, this company is too crazy to say no, Madfake.

The emergence of large-scale data centers has undoubtedly given IBM an opportunity. For such a demand as Bluestar Technology, Samuel Palmisano really could not wait to supply Luo Sheng to the rhythm.

However, it is not for nothing that Bluestar Technology Group disclosed some major strategic layouts to the other party. Naturally, it is to make IBM pay more attention to and care about this cooperation, and Bluestar Technology can also discuss other conditions.

After a while, Zhang Bowen said: "This is a very large-scale cooperation project. IBM must cooperate with Bluestar Technology Group in related cooperation matters. Once this contract is signed, the two parties will start working on university campuses in North America a month later. Including Berkeley, MIT, Stanford, Harvard, Cambridge, Oxford, Göttingen, and more, to promote plans for cloud computing services.”

As for the universities and colleges in the mainland, there is no need for IBM to participate.

Zhang Bowen added: "The purpose of this is that we hope to reduce the cost of distributed computing in academic research, and we can provide these universities with relevant hardware and software equipment and technical support, including a large number of personal computers, support including Linux, Xen , Hadoop and other open source platforms, students can develop various large-scale computing-based research projects through the Internet, and we can provide corresponding funding."

Zhang Bowen added: "Our regional influence is relatively weak, and Bluestar Technology does not have much basis in North America. As a long-term strategic partner, IBM will come forward to settle some obstacles in the market."

In the end, Samuel Palmisano nodded without hesitation, and responded: "No problem, no problem, and it should be. After all, if your company develops smoothly, IBM can get more orders and profits, then... ...Let's talk about the specific signing."

...

Zhang Bowen stayed at IBM for three days. Even if the contract was fully prepared when it arrived, he must be cautious when actually signing it.

This is true for Bluestar Technology, and it is also true for IBM.

After all, this is not a small amount.

If something goes wrong, either side will be hurt.

However, Bluestar Technology is not a vegetarian after all, and its legal team has a strong lineup.

In the end, the strategic cooperation agreement was successfully signed on April 6, and IBM held a temporary media conference on that day to officially disclose some of the content of the cooperation to the outside world.

The specific cooperation was not disclosed, but the contract matters related to the first batch of purchase orders of Bluestar Technology Group were disclosed.

Valued at $3.052 billion, 2.07 million sets of servers were purchased.

Zhang Bowen and IBM head Samuel Palmisano attended the conference.

...

On the afternoon of April 8, the headquarters of the Cote d'Azur company.

"You were already in the limelight in March, and you grabbed the world's headlines as soon as you entered April." Qin Weimu came to Luo Sheng's office, and by the way brought a paper newspaper that was still on the other side's desk.

This was a financial news report. Luo Sheng picked it up and glanced at it. The headline on the front page was news about Bluestar Technology Group.

[Luo Sheng proposed the concept of "cloud computing"? Bluestar Technology Group officially announced that it has reached a strategic cooperation with IBM, and formally signed a server contract worth 3.052 billion US dollars to build a large-scale data center. This is the first major move of Bluestar Technology since its IPO. 】

[But the market is not optimistic. Once the news was disclosed, Bluestar Technology's stock fell sharply by 3.59% that day, 2.8 billion US dollars evaporated, equivalent to 22.5 billion yuan. On April 7, Bluestar Technology closed with a total market value of US$75 billion, and was once again overtaken by Apple with a market value of US$75.3 billion. 】

Luo Sheng watched for a while and threw the newspaper aside, looked at Qin Weimu and said, "Has the offshore trust fund been settled?"

Qin Weimu nodded: "Well, there are currently 1.032 billion US dollars that have been transferred to the offshore fund, all of which are cash flow, and they are all cash flow at present. They are preparing to buy Bluestar Technology shares."

Hearing this, Luo Sheng snapped his fingers and immediately said, "Don't worry, let the stock fall for a while, and then buy it later."

Qin Weimu couldn't help being stunned for a moment, while Luo Sheng muttered to himself and said, "It's... on the 16th, yes, I started buying on the 16th, and I bought all of them. This year's first The report for the first quarter has been released, but it has not been announced yet, and it will be officially disclosed on the 17th or 18th, and it may be another scene at that time.”

Hearing this, Qin Weimu nodded: "Okay, I see."

Luo Sheng is not worried at all about the fluctuation of the company's market value. Instead, it is a good thing. Taking advantage of this decline, he can buy more.

What is the situation of the company, who else can know better than the head of him?

Qin Weimu went to deal with the affairs, and Luo Sheng picked up the newspaper and read the follow-up content. The head of IBM supported cloud computing and praised Bluestar Technology for building a data center. It is a visionary matter.

When Luo Sheng saw this paragraph in the article, he didn't believe in the nonsense of Samuel Palmisano, a lousy old man.

This was definitely not what he had in mind at the time, or even against his will. It was just that such a large order contract, as a partner, was also related to IBM's profits. Naturally, he jumped out to trumpet big data and cloud computing services for the Bluestar Technology platform. the concept of.

In fact, IBM itself is still a little confused. Cloud computing is definitely feasible, but if it takes a long time to realize, in other words, it does not have realistic conditions. As a company, it is necessary to consider reality.

But Samuel Palmisano doesn't care about this, just let the people inside do the topic discussion, let's talk about it in the outside world, and earn the money in front of us. This is a real and visible profit. Woolen cloth.

As for being slapped in the face in the end, it's a slap in the face, anyway, it's a fact that IBM made a lot of money.

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