Chapter 525

Simon spent a week on the east coast, a weekend, and returned to San Francisco on the west coast on January 25.

The company failed to reach a cooperation agreement with Microsoft on the pre installation of IE browser, and igritte recently contacted with apple, HP, Compaq and other PC manufacturers one after another.

Compared with the original service provider to install browser software for users, it can greatly increase the income of IE browser software.

Due to population constraints, once the number of Internet access users reaches a certain scale, it is impossible to continue to rise rapidly. As a kind of consumable, personal computers need to be continuously upgraded, and the sales volume will continue to increase in the next ten years.

Moreover, adopting the mode of software pre installation can thoroughly consolidate the market position of IE browser software, which is actually a monopoly position, and avoid any opportunity for competitors.

Microsoft used to use this tactic to defeat dozens of browser patent licensing manufacturers including Netscape.

Igritte holds most of the core patents of the world wide web technology, so it is reasonable not to worry about the monopoly of IE browser. However, we have to take precautions.

Mainly in the aspect of anti-monopoly.

If the federal government carries out an anti-monopoly investigation on Internet Explorer, this kind of voice has already appeared last year, then igritte will probably have to license this technology out.

At that time, as long as the pre installed mode of IE browser has become an established fact, even if there are competitors, the threat will not be too big.

Therefore, igritte company attaches great importance to this plan.

"Both apple and IBM have rejected our cooperation plan. Apple thinks that doing so will increase the purchase cost of users. IBM thinks that since we want to pre install the software in each other's machines, we should pay the other party's fees instead of charges. Several other manufacturers, such as HP, Compaq and Dell, are still negotiating. They can basically reach a cooperation agreement, but they have not reached an agreement on the price of pre installation. In my opinion, these manufacturers should have contacted each other in private, and have reached a joint advance and retreat alliance. "

In the conference room, Jeff Bezos introduced the general progress of the pre installation plan.

Simon actually pays more attention to the market advantage of IE browser software brought by the pre installation plan, and the most important thing is to ensure the absolute Internet portal status of this operating software. As for the revenue from pre installation of software, he planned to gradually promote the free Internet browser, making this software a free "service" of igritte company, so as to reduce the possibility of monopoly charges Therefore, even if the price is lower, it doesn't matter.

Of course, it's unlikely to be free in the short term.

Igritte is very dependent on Internet Explorer's annual revenue of hundreds of millions of dollars.

Simon is actually very resistant to this kind of dependence, but has to admit that the income of IE browser can not only reduce the huge demand for capital of igrit, but also enhance the confidence of igrit and even the whole new technology field in the development prospect of the Internet industry.

For emerging industries, only when they can obtain practical benefits can they attract more people to participate.

Simon listened to Bezos' introduction and looked at a more detailed information in his hand. After a moment, he looked up and said, "apple, is there any possibility to continue the negotiation?"

Jeff Bezos shook his head and said, "I've talked to John Scully three times in person, but they all refused. Apple's performance in recent years has been excellent, and their operating system has not been widely authorized. They don't worry about competitors, so they don't want to bear the extra cost of software pre installation."

After the Gulf War, the U.S. stock market recovered, and the PC market grew at a high speed. Both in terms of capital level and actual performance, Apple has been moistening in recent years. Not only has its market value been rising steadily, but it still maintains a high level of more than $7 billion, and its market share is also stable at more than 20%.

Moreover, unlike the Microsoft camp, Apple's Macintosh system is not licensed to the outside world, so there is no competitor for compatible computers.

John Scaley probably decided that igritte could not give up Apple's 20% PC market and didn't want to bear the extra cost of software procurement.

Igritte is unlikely to give up the apple market.

Otherwise, Simon will not ask about the possibility that there is no negotiation.

However, Apple CEO John Scully obviously forgot that although igritte can't give up the apple computer market, it can slow down the development progress of Macintosh version of Internet Explorer.

In the next few years, the Internet will only become more and more important to PC users.

If Apple's Macintosh operating system platform's web browser software is always not as easy to use as Microsoft's platform, the negative word-of-mouth will accumulate day by day, which will be enough for apple to suffer.

What's more, there are pre installed solutions.

Different from Apple's fearlessness and IBM's arrogance, the reason why HP, Compaq and other manufacturers are willing to cooperate is obviously to see the promotion of this scheme to themselves.

When users access the world wide web, they can get software installation from the service provider, but the cost is also clearly priced.In the future, if there is a problem with the software, or if the computer needs to be replaced, IE browser must be re installed, which is definitely not suitable for the operator to continue to trouble.

As we all know, labor in the United States is very expensive.

For the $10 IE browser software, if people install it on their own, the service fee may be more than that.

Of course, Internet Explorer also has retail versions, including online software stores, but it will eventually bring all kinds of inconvenience.

At this time, if a machine itself is pre installed with IE browser, users will show a tendency unconsciously. The machine can be used directly if it is bought. If it fails, it may only need to restore the factory system, which is obviously much more convenient than those computers without pre installed browser.

Business competition, a lot of times, is the competition of details accumulated bit by bit.

Apple is not willing to cooperate, the loss will only be the other side itself.

Simon did not spend too much thought to trip the other side. In the long-distance race, if a person stops and tries to trip his competitors, he will only slow down his pace.

As for the future.

Think about the rapid decline of apple after the release of Windows 95. If the other party wants to recover at that time, it can't do without paying the price.

The discussion continued, and at the end of the discussion, Carol Bartz came up with another project.

About a new set of computer operating system.

Linux。

"This is a set of open source operating system kernel released by a Finnish programmer named Linus tovatz last year. After it was released through the world wide web platform, many programmers around the world are volunteering to carry out follow-up development for this system. We think this system is very suitable to replace the UNIX system currently used in the company's data center, so we intend to set up a team to be responsible for this project. "

Carol Bartz just gave a general introduction. Simon actually saw the detailed planning of the project in advance on the plane to San Francisco.

At present, the data center of igritte company is still using UNIX system, and the licensing fee of UNIX system is very expensive. Moreover, the openness of this system is still not up to the degree that igritte technical team can modify the lowest level according to their own needs.

Completely open source and free Linux, no doubt to solve this problem.

In my memory, because of the free and open source properties, the share of Linux system in the server market reached more than 90%.

Of course, it is not easy to develop an operating system.

It has been nearly 20 years since Microsoft was founded in 1975. There are still various problems in the latest Windows 3.1 system.

Simon appreciates that Carol Bartz discovered the potential value of this operating system shortly after the birth of Linux, but it will be a long-term project if it is really put into development.

If you want to develop a brand new operating system, it's just a technical team, no one or two hundred people can't do it, and you must be the top software engineer.

At the same time, it is also unrealistic to expect an operating system to be completed in a year or two.

Finally, when the project is completed, it is still not easy to replace the existing UNIX system.

Igrit's cloud computing technology is now developed based on UNIX system.

However, no matter how difficult it is, Simon knows that it is absolutely right to replace UNIX with a free and open source Linux system.

Now that we are on the right path, no matter how much investment we need in the process, it is worth it.

After more than half an hour's discussion, although Jeff Bezos had some complaints about the plan that might occupy a lot of funds and resources of igritte, he didn't object to it, so he quickly finalized it.

Time is already noon unconsciously.

After lunch, they returned to the company and discussed with Steve case, who is still in New York, about the cooperation between igritte and AOL.

At the beginning, AOL moved its headquarters to San Francisco, because the business scale of the follow-up company on the east coast was much larger than that on the west coast, Steve Case spent much more time in the east coast headquarters in New York than that on the west coast, and the operation team gradually tilted to the East. Now the West Coast headquarters is more focused on technology research and development.

ADSL technology is to finalize the scheme and complete the test on the west coast.

At the end of igritt's trip, Simon took time to visit dincobail, a company run by c-girl Claire Gaines.

With the rise of the Internet, the demand for ICAM digital cameras has been increasing.

In 1992, the shipment volume of ICAM unknowingly increased to about 50000 units per month, and the annual shipment volume reached 610000 units, and the sales volume was close to US $300 million.For a start-up electronic products company, it is a pioneering undertaking when a large number of well-established manufacturers with strong technology enter the market one after another.

Because of the rapid rise of the Internet concept, Wall Street's recent valuation of ICAM has reached as high as $1 billion.

After another round of financing, westero's stake in tincobail has risen to 70%, and the two founders' stake has shrunk from 25% to 15%.

However, according to the recent valuation of $1 billion, only the 15% shares are worth $150 million.

As a result, Claire Geithner has become another billionaire out of the westero system. Moreover, compared with the executives of the westero system, the identity of C girl is more imaginative: Simon westero's maid.

More and more people in the outside world know the information of the four "ABCD" girls around Simon westero, full of all kinds of ambiguous curiosity.

The third generation icam-30 will still be released on Easter.

At the same time, tincobail has quietly started to develop digital music players, and the trademarks have already been registered, including iPlayer.

The player will be mainly based on the MP3 audio format and micro hard disk storage technology provided by igrit.

It is also a product that appears almost ten years in advance. However, due to the accumulation of related technologies for many years, there are no big obstacles in product development.

As long as the next USB is completed and promoted, and AOL's ADSL network is completed, the digital music player can create a complete set of online music ecosystem.

After a day's work, Simon stayed in Woodside's mountain villa for one night with his female assistant, and returned to Los Angeles the next day.

This year's Golden Globe awards are held on Thursday, January 28.

The location is still the Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills.

Denise entertainment has a lot of nominations in film and TV, and it's still the hot one tonight.

The company also started to prepare the celebration party after the Golden Globe ceremony one week in advance.

Whether or not she can win the prize, there are more than 30 nominations in film and TV, which is enough for danilisi to celebrate.

Simon was not in the mood to sit in the banquet hall of the Hilton Hotel for a few hours. In the afternoon, he still worked until six o'clock and returned to domay point manor to have dinner with Janet. They arrived at the activity center on the second floor of Denise studios in advance.

Tonight's celebration party is still here.

Many company executives and some stars who did not participate in the award ceremony arrived ahead of time. After the award ceremony, it was even more lively here.

The live broadcast of the Golden Globe Awards was broadcast on the projection screen in the hall of the activity center. Simon, Amy Pascal and others said hello and discussed the plan of "evoking the universe" with Denny Morris.

"In 1980, Mr. and Mrs. Warren co published a biography with a writer named" Mr. and Mrs. Warren, the goblins ". At that time, they also signed an exclusive license agreement with each other, and the Warren couple could no longer license the relevant experience to others. This is the most troublesome point. We contacted the writer and they offered us $5 million. It was a joke. However, the news has spread recently, and now several other Hollywood film companies are interested in the right to adapt the book. "