There are many first-generation masters in the mainland IT industry in the summer camp. Chen Bing saw the list before the summer camp started. In addition to Qiu Bojun and Yan Yuanchao, he also saw several famous figures such as Liu Xu and Zhou Zhinong.

However, these great masters have not yet fully grown up at this time, and Chen Bing is not in a hurry to recruit them all. Even though he can only select 15 people to come to Xiangjiang after this summer camp, it is enough for the time being, and the rest can be used later.

Let’s talk again.

Various restrictions on the flow of talents in the Mainland are gradually loosening. With the layout of Yinghao Company in the Mainland, it is already far ahead of other manufacturers. In at least five years, Yinghao will definitely be the best R&D platform in the Mainland and is not afraid of talent.

Not attractive.

When the summer camp started, Chen Bing had already left Xiangjiang and flew to the Lighthouse Country again. This summer he would be in charge of the R&D center in the Lighthouse Country and observe the launch of the IBM PC up close.

IBM's full name is International Business Machines Corporation, International Business Machines Corporation, known as "Big Blue" by people in the world. It is one of the most influential companies in the history of computers.

IBM has a very long history, which can be traced back to 1911. Even before World War II, IBM established a corporate laboratory. The establishment of the laboratory and continuous investment in research and development have allowed IBM's technology and products to gain a leading position in the market.

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After the end of World War II, Watson Jr. joined IBM and began to fully promote the computer business. By the 1960s, IBM became the true overlord of the computer industry.

In 1964, IBM spent US$5 billion to launch the world's first third-generation integrated circuit computer S/360 system: the first to achieve millions of instruction operations per second, a single operating system, and was used in the Apollo moon landing program.

S/360 quickly pushed IBM to the top of the list of mainframe computer manufacturers and its monopoly. At its peak, IBM's computer shipments reached four times the combined shipments of the rest of the world's manufacturers.

During this period, although many well-known companies entered the computer market one after another in an attempt to get a share of the pie, no company was able to shake IBM's monopoly. The competitive landscape of the computer industry in the Lighthouse Country at that time was jokingly called "one giant and seven

Dwarf".

Long-term market monopoly has led to legal proceedings. In 1969, the Ministry of Justice of the lighthouse country launched a monopoly investigation against IBM. This investigation lasted for thirteen years and was completely concluded in 1982.

The lawsuits had a huge impact on IBM's operations. In the 1970s, IBM's market share continued to decline. By 1980, IBM's market share dropped to 32%, and the long antitrust investigation finally came to an end.<

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At this time, the microcomputer market has completely emerged, and Apple Computer has become the best-selling microcomputer. Although IBM had launched the desktop computer IBM 5100 as early as 1975, you can know from the weight of this machine of 22.7 kilograms that this machine is difficult to

Making a splash in the microcomputer market.

It wasn't until March 1980 that IBM held a high-level secret meeting to set up the "Chess" project to develop the IBM personal computer. The product was named Personal puter. This is the origin of the abbreviation PC in later generations.

The PC ushered in a new era, but IBM, which was already extremely large and bloated, did not attach so much importance to this project at first. A team of 13 people led by Don Esterlich, the father of the PC, was placed in a warehouse

, and were required to produce products within one year.

People in later generations will understand the importance of the operating system for a computer product. However, when IBM, as a giant, launched the PC, the operating system was not independently developed but purchased from external sources, thus pushing a small software company to the top

The dominant position in the software industry.

Judging from the perspective of hindsight, IBM did not develop its own operating system, which was definitely a very big strategic mistake. Whether this was a decision-making error caused by arrogance and contempt, or a transfer of interests under the PY transaction, the outside world cannot verify at all.

But the result was that, more than ten years later, IBM gradually lost its technical barriers in the huge industry it created, and was forced to undergo a painful strategic transformation. In the end, even its PC manufacturing business was packaged and sold.

In 1980, the mainstream operating system was DIGITAL RESEARCH's CP/M, and IBM indeed made a purchase request to DIGITAL RESEARCH. However, what is very dramatic is that in the end, this supplier qualification fell to a little-known small company, Microsoft.

Up.

There are rumors that IBM gave up cooperation with DIGITAL RESEARCH because the boss of DIGITAL RESEARCH was late for negotiations, which caused IBM's dissatisfaction and excluded DIGITAL RESEARCH from the cooperation list.

Microsoft, which had obtained supplier qualifications, did not even have any operating system products at this time. If such a dramatic result had nothing to do with the director title of Microsoft founder Guy's mother in IBM, Chen Bing would not believe it even to death.

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Just like Mr. Wang, who loves to climb mountains, was able to obtain scarce wagons when reselling corn; just like Li Bancheng was able to acquire Hutchison Whampoa at a very low price. Behind many business legends, there are often non-commercial factors.<

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In a market economy, there are not only market rules, but also many factors outside the market that have an impact. This is why Chen Bing spent all his money to win over the Li and Zhao families when he started his business in Xiangjiang.

What should we do if Microsoft itself does not have an operating system product? Here comes the cool operation. Microsoft heard that Seattle Computer Company had developed the QDOS system, so they took the initiative to come to the door and paid $25,000 to obtain the right to use this operating system.

Note that what Microsoft purchased at this time was only the right to use the system. Historically, it was not until July 1981, one month before the IBM PC was officially released, that Microsoft used less than $100,000 to completely buy out all related rights to the QDOS system.

, which laid the cornerstone of Microsoft's business.

Although Chen Bing was reborn a few years ago, it was already the autumn of 1980 when he came to Xiangjiang to start a business, and it was already February 1981 when he made his first pot of gold in the Lighthouse Country.

At this time, IBM's secret research and development of PCs had been going on for a long time, and Microsoft had also obtained the right to use and distribute QDOS.

However, this time is not too late for Chen Bing, and it is just right for Chen Bing to get involved in the PC industry in advance.

When Chen Bing, Zhao Ping, and Li Shihao determined the strategy of entering into personal computers in the Lighthouse Country, he immediately began to set up a R&D center and continuously visited technology companies in the Lighthouse Country in order to carry out industrial layout in advance.

When determining the strategic plan, Chen Bing regarded Microsoft as the primary competitor in the future. Knowing how important QDOS is to Microsoft, how could Chen Bing not get involved.

However, Chen Bing did not come forward in person this time, and did not even put Seattle Computer Company on the visiting list. Instead, he entrusted legal consultant Lawrence to come forward and directly acquire QDOS products.

At this time, although the QDOS system had been copyrighted, it had not yet proven itself in the market. It was just a small product that no one paid attention to. Lawrence's acquisition was very smooth, and it was put into operation for less than 100,000 US dollars.

The system is under its control.

This acquisition not only attracted little attention from the outside world, but even within Yinghao Company, no other shareholders or executives regarded this acquisition of less than 100,000 US dollars as anything important.

And Tim, the real developer of the QDOS system, is a technical man with no business sensitivity. Very simply, he was headhunted by Chen Bing with a high salary to come to Xiangjiang to continue to improve the QDOS system.

At this time, Microsoft was just a small software company founded by a college dropout, and its products were only BASIC software programs. However, relying on the mother who was a director of IBM, Microsoft became an IBM software supplier.

IBM's PC was developed in secret and was not announced to the outside world, and not many resources were invested. Microsoft purchased the distribution rights of QDOS initially just to make a profit from the distribution.

Are you familiar with this formula? How many mainland suppliers will be unable to directly sign supply agreements when supplying goods to large manufacturers, but must go through some specialized dealers to sign large orders?

However, with the progress of PC product research and development, the chances of this product being successfully launched on the market are increasing, and the operating system provided by Microsoft has also been officially determined as the basic configuration of PC.

Anyone who is engaged in the automobile or mobile phone supply business in future generations will know what a huge piece of cake factory pre-installation is.

As a supplier, Microsoft is very familiar with the research and development progress of IBM PC products.

Seeing that the PC is about to be launched, the business-minded Guy will certainly not be satisfied with distributing other people's products. He will take advantage of the business opportunities obtained in advance to completely buy out the QDOS system in order to gain higher profits. This is not difficult.

Select.

At the same time that Chen Bing flew to the lighthouse country, Microsoft founders Guy and Allen visited Seattle Computer Company again, and lightly proposed a proposal to fully acquire the QDOS system.

However, the reply given by Seattle Computer surprised Guy: "You are late, the QDOS product has been sold."

Now Guy is really confused. Could it be that someone knew that the PC product was about to be launched and cut it off in advance? "When was it sold? Why didn't you notify us?"

"It was sold in February. There is no clause in your distribution agreement that requires us to notify you."

"You have sold the product, what will happen to our distribution rights?"

"Of course your distribution agreement can continue to be enforced. The acquirer knew about your distribution agreement when it made the acquisition and did not raise any objections."

"Who is the acquirer? Why has it never contacted us? Who will execute our distribution agreement in the future?"

"Sorry, we cannot reveal who the acquirer is. We have signed a confidentiality agreement. As for your distribution agreement, we will continue to execute it with our company.

The operating rights of this product for the next two years have been reversely granted to our company. This acquisition will have no impact or change on your agreement. If this operating right is to be taken back by them after two years, they will naturally contact you in advance.

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Hearing that the distribution agreement would not be affected in any way, Guy's worries were alleviated. The PC was about to be released, and if there were changes in the operating system supply business at this time, IBM would definitely hold Microsoft accountable.

Since this mysterious company that acquired QDOS has no intention of changing the distribution agreement, it is obviously not looking for Microsoft, which will give it plenty of time to arrange countermeasures.

"Where's Tim? Are you still in your company?" Since the product has been bought by others, the next best thing is to poach the developer of the product, at least it will be much easier to deal with.

"Tim has resigned."

"After he resigned, which company did he go to?"

"I only know that he has left this city with his family. As for where he went, I don't know."

The other party's questions made Lao Gai very angry, but this time Lao Gai came to take advantage of him. He also concealed a lot of information and was very helpless about the other party's attitude.

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At this time, Allen next to him started to interject, "Brother, do you know what their purpose is to acquire QDOS? It's just a small software acquisition, why do they need to sign a confidentiality agreement?"

The other person shrugged, "I don't know that. They just paid for our products. Of course they won't tell us what they want to do. Maybe they want to develop their own computer system.

I’ve told you everything I can say, so you should stop asking questions. If you violate the confidentiality agreement, you will have to pay money.”

Seeing that they couldn't get any information from them, Guy and Allen had no choice but to return to their company.

The sudden appearance of the mysterious acquirer completely disrupted the two people's plans. After the two returned to the company, they closed the office door and began to discuss.

"Lao Gai, what do you think about this?"

Lao Gai had been thinking on the way back, and he already had some clues. "This mysterious guy acquired QDOS a few months ago. At that time, IBM's PC had not yet taken shape. It was impossible for them to see the potential of the PC in advance."

Market potential.

In addition, they did not want to take back our distribution rights. They probably did not come for us, Microsoft and IBM. The most likely reason is that they wanted to use QDOS to develop some of their own products, so they acquired this operating system in advance."
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Allen nodded. This analysis was very logical. They never imagined that they had been targeted in advance by Chen Bing, who had never been in contact with them before, and had been blocking them secretly.

"Then what should we do? IBM's PC will be released soon. If this PC product sells well, it can bring a lot of profits.

We are currently just a dealer of QDOS. Once the PC is successfully launched and sold, it will be difficult to buy the copyright of this QDOS product in the future.

Moreover, if this mysterious acquirer skips us and goes directly to negotiate with IBM, such a large piece of business will most likely be snatched away by them."

"You are right. Once PC products sell well, the profitability of this operating system will become higher and higher. We do not have the full copyright of this product, and it is too passive to be a distributor.

However, do you want to snatch IBM, a big customer, from us? It’s not that easy. At least it’s unlikely in the short term. If you want to snatch it away, it will only happen after PC products are in full sales. This gives us about a year of preparation.

Time.

For now, we can only organize a team as soon as possible to develop our own operating system and replace this QDOS as soon as possible.
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