Reborn Capital Madman

Although Frank Cary showed dissatisfaction with Gao Xian's words that bewitched him and pursued Watson and his son, he was very moved in his heart.

You should know that since fully taking over the huge business kingdom of ibm, Frank Cary has indeed been taking advantage of the old capital accumulated by Watson. His main job is to improve the corporate system, especially in employee assessment, which seems a bit mediocre.

The reasons are, first, ibm has done a good job in the field of large computers, and it is indeed difficult to go further; second, antitrust sword of Damocles is hanging above his head, ibm has to operate conservatively,

Even if the market share of computer products has declined year by year, I dare not step beyond the line.

In fact, Frank Cary has made the worst plan for the antitrust investigation by the US Ministry of Justice and adjusted the business into two parts to achieve that even if one day it is really forcibly dismantled, it can be minimized.

loss.

In this case, Frank Cary seemed destined to be the fourth CEO of IBM who could only hold his tail and be a human being, and could not leave a glorious legacy like the Watsons and his sons.

And now, Gao Xian's big foolish tricks inevitably aroused Frank Cary's ambition that was hidden well on weekdays.

After all, those who can achieve the position of CEO of ibm are definitely considered big names. Who can do without a little lofty sentiment that has been famous in history?

Frank Carrie was afraid that Gao Xian would see his psychological activities and then cause a passiveness to the subsequent talks, so she politely refused the arrangement for lunch together, returned to the Hilton Hotel for a short rest, and waited to visit Gao Xian Industrial Estate in the afternoon.

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Just so happened that Watson, who went to the American Consulate in Xiangjiang in the morning, came back in a good mood and asked about the results of the preliminary talks between Frank Carri and Gao Xian.

Frank Cary pondered: "I roughly figured out David Gao's idea. Huanyu Computer Company is backed by Gao's consortium and has the strength to continue playing on its own; but he also hopes that Huanyu's personal computer can be as fast as possible.

, enter the corporate market, so I am also keen on selling Huanyu Computer Company to ibm. Relying on the golden signboard of the computer industry, ibm, it can make both short-term and long-term profits."

Watson nodded, "David Gao is only in his thirties, but he has successfully built such a large consortium. He is indeed very thoughtful."

Frank Cary said in anger: "But David Gao is too confident and stubborn, and still greedily persists. Huanyu Computer Company is worth $4 billion, and it is almost catching up with our fiscal budget for developing system/360 that year.

Now.”

"Money is not a problem!" Watson said leisurely: "The key is whether the acquisition of Huanyu Computer Company can bring new and powerful profit points to ibm's business and make Wall Street satisfied with ibm's financial statements."

Frank Carrissai said: "I think the current personal computer is like the main computers from 20 or 30 years ago. It will surely rise, and ibm cannot miss this opportunity."

"David Gao invited me to visit the factory, R&D department, and laboratory in the afternoon. After seeing it, we will further discuss the value of Huanyu Computer Company."

Watson Jr. said excitedly: "Then I will follow you to see."

"This is to inform David Gao in advance." Frank Cary reached out to the phone, "He said, to save time on the road, helicopter to that industrial area."

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As an important shareholder of Huanyu Computer Company, Chen Bi, a senior member of Huifeng Bank, is also very concerned about the results of the talks between Gao Xian and Frank Kari, so he called to inquire about it, and finally expressed his opinion in a tangled tone: "Sir Gao, if you really want to sell Huanyu Computer Company to ibm, you should collect your appetite. I think the quotation of $4 billion is too high. Are you going to create a new world record for capital operation? ?”

Gao Xian laughed loudly when he heard this. His relationship with Shen Bi was definitely not just a good friend, or because of the situation, he just got what he needed, but this did not prevent the other party from being able to guess some of his thoughts sometimes.

Indeed, if Huanyu Computer Company can be sold to ibm at an ideal price, Gao Xian and his Gao Yi will become more famous in the capital circle.

"The real value of Huanyu Computer Company can indeed reach this number." Gao Xian insisted on his own opinion: "Anyway, even if we don't complete this business, we won't lose money; but if it does, we will make a lot of money."

There are some reasons that Gao Xian is not convenient to tell outsiders.

Take ibm as an example. The technology is amazing. In essence, it is a technology company that attaches great importance to financial statement data, which is the main reason why it is very popular with Wall Street.

In the era of Internet cloud computing in the "old script", ibm set a terrible record of decline in operating income for 22 consecutive quarters. In order to make up for its shortcomings in the cloud computing field, ibm has crazily spent 34 billion US dollars. Approximately one-quarter of its market value, it acquires Red Hat.

Also in the "old script", ibm only took a year to develop ibm-pc, which has become the industry standard, is mainly because its opponents are too shabby.

Take Apple Computer for example. Woz's second-generation Apple Computer is a star product and is very popular in the market, laying a good foundation for Apple Computer. Otherwise, Apple Computer's listing financing would not have hit 19th. The best record in Ford Automobile IPO in five or six years.

In this case, as long as Apple Computer can develop a successful sixteen-bit personal computer and inherit the mantle of the second-generation Apple computer, ibm-pc will at least not be as smooth as it is in the market.

Unfortunately, Jobs, who was young and energetic and had low vision, messed up three generations of Apple computers and could only watch the market share of ibm-pc in disappointment.

The key here is whether ibm can be forced into a corner, just like in the cloud computing field, Amazon, Microsoft stepped on ibm's head, Google, Alibaba Cloud, etc. behind the butt, and tried hard to catch up.

Huanyu Personal Computer, led by Gao Xian, will officially release 16-digit products next month, and it is already ahead of ibm.

There is no need to let outsiders like Chen Bi know about the twists and turns here. Huifeng Bank is just waiting for the time being to share the money.

Shortly after the call with Shen Bi, Gao Xian received a call from Frank Cary. He naturally agreed and welcomed Watson to join the visiting team.

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Gaoxian Industrial Village is located on the land reclamation east of Tai Po District in the eastern New Territories. Although the infrastructure is complete and the road transportation to the place is very convenient, for big names like Gaoxian and Frank Kari, it is still It's a bit of a waste of time, it's better to be efficient than riding a helicopter.

When the helicopter was about to arrive at Gaoxian Industrial Village, Gaoxian pointed to a living area below and introduced: "The industrial area has driven this small village and town to prosper. The official government is studying and integrating it into the construction plan of the new town, that is, the satellite city. .”

Watson Jr. smiled and said, "It seems that Sir Gao's consortium has had a positive impact on the society in Xiangjiang."

After the helicopter landed, Frank Carrie and Watson Jr. moved quickly down the gangway with Gao Qiang, accompanied by the greeting staff, and entered the office building of Xiangjiang Industrial Village Company.

Gao Xian took a visiting itinerary, browsed it, and then smiled and said, "Then let's start the tour."

Frank Cary and Watson Jr. were in a state of mind, hoping to omit all unnecessary red tape.

"The factory in Xiangjiang, as in the Silicon Valley of the United States, implements the same standard. It mainly produces monitors not only for personal computers, but is enough to ensure the matching needs of 20,000 Huanyu personal computer hosts every month."

Since the heavyweight tour plan was arranged early, the environment of this modern factory is natural, clean and orderly, and executives like Frank Cary and Watson, who are salesmen, must also pay attention to it first. These.

Since neither of these two people are technically born, Gao Xian must adopt the sensory mode skillfully when displaying technical achievements.

So Gao Xian quickly led Frank Carrie, Watson and his group to the central control room of the factory, pointed to the monitor working on the table, and said concisely: "Only produced and used, this is what we do with our products. confidence."

Frank Cary noticed that the twelve-inch monitor on the table is different from the popular monochrome monitors nowadays, but works in color mode. The text, charts and other content on the screen are used to highlight key points. It is obvious at a glance. .

"Does Huanyu's personal computer display terminals be unified with this kind of monitor?" Frank Cary humbly asked.

"This is the general trend, and it's right in front of you." Gao Xian replied naturally: "We go to the R&D department to look at the effects of spreadsheets, word processing, games and other programs in the new display mode, and you will immediately understand, users These functions are needed."

After ibm and his group moved to the R&D department and the laboratory, a solemn expression appeared in their eyes.

It is necessary to point out that the word processing needs of this era are mainly solved through commercial products such as word processing machines. The most well-known manufacturers include ibm, Wang'an Computer Company, etc.

After receiving the keyboard input, the word processor can use a small screen to format the English letters in line with upper and lower case, bold, etc.; after the edit is satisfied, it will be sent to the printer to print; The demand for document distribution is very high, so I will leave it to the copier for processing. Although I don’t know how many times behind the office software that people are familiar with in the “old scripts”, this is the working model for the secretary to handle a large number of documents. Compared with the past, the work efficiency has been Greatly improved.

Frank Cary, who was already impressed by the performance of running spreadsheet software in Huanyu personal computers, saw the effect of running word processing software in the sixteen Huanyu personal computers, suddenly realized that ibm's main office worker was currently

Products - Word Processor Series, there are signs of being eliminated!

Gao Xian personally introduced Huanyu Computer Company's hundreds of technical achievements in display technology, which are reflected in the display products, which support sixteen colors, and display up to 80×25 English letters in text mode, and are available in image mode.

Program drawing, etc.

"When putting Huanyu personal computers in the living room of the home, they must meet the needs of entertainment, early education and other outside the office. These display functions are the basis of hardware." Gao Xian specifically introduced: "At the same time, we also have the audio functions in terms of the functions of the audio.

Many technical achievements have been put into use.”

A follower of Frank Cary asked in a casual manner: "Personal computer monitors support color display, which should have a great demand for memory capacity, so the cost pressure cannot be ignored, right?"

Gao Xian smiled slightly, "The development speed of semiconductor dynamic random memory technology is so fast that many people's thinking is behind. I suggest that ibm might as well send someone to a book to investigate what the companies there are busy in this field. I will give it here

The judgment is that memory configurations with capacity of 48kb to 64kb will be the mainstream of personal computers next year.”

Speaking of this, Gao Xian looked like something again, "By the way, the engineers in Silicon Valley are studying the feasibility of configuring a 5.25-inch hard drive for Huanyu's personal computer. In my opinion, there should be no big problem, at most

In less than three years, Huanyu personal computers can have a permanent built-in memory outside the floppy disk.”

Everyone was talking lively, and Watson suddenly snuck out: "Under Sir Gao's detailed introduction, I also think that Huanyu personal computers must be the overlord of this field."

"However, ibm has been plagued by the Ministry of Justice's antitrust investigation in recent years. If the overlord of the personal computer industry is acquired, wouldn't it give the Ministry of Justice's antitrust investigation a more sufficient reason?"

"Anti-monopoly investigation?" Gao Xian laughed, "It doesn't exist!"

Before I waited for the ibm and his group to open, Gao Xian pointed to an open Huanyu personal computer horizontal chassis, "I saw the motherboard slot inside, these interfaces are open to all third-party manufacturers, as long as the function expansion card meets Huanyu personal

Computer technical specifications can be installed and work normally."

Speaking of this, Gao Xian picked up another box of 5.25-inch floppy disk and showed it, "In terms of software, whether it is the operating system, word processing, or spreadsheet software, as long as it complies with Huanyu personal computer technical specifications, no matter which company codes it.

, it can work properly.”

Gao Xian looked at ibm and his group with a smile, and said in a stressful tone: "A platform as open as Huanyu's personal computer, do you think it will really be targeted by antitrust investigations?"

IBM, including Frank Cary and Watson, were all looking at each other, as if, as if the gameplay of Huanyu's personal computer could really block the antitrust investigation.

Finally, Watson Jr. smiled and broke his silence, saying, "Sir Gao's deep understanding of the computer industry has been constantly refreshing my understanding! I think ibm can completely consider hiring Sir Gao as the next CEO."

Gao Xian also quipped: "If that were the case, ibm would have to break the practice of cultivating a CEO internally."

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ps: Bow and thank the book friend Xiang Dongshihai for his reward and support!!