Chapter 569 The Strategy Hidden in the Cloud

   In the future, ISA will be less important.

In the long run, semiconductor manufacturers' control over the ecosystem built on ISA will become weaker, and ISA itself will become less and less important. This is determined by the development trend of software technology, and these technologies In the 1990s, there was already a small success.

  Netscape navigator, many professional terms and functions of the browser are derived from it, such as cookies, web frameworks, JS, etc. are all defined in this browser.

This crazy company has tried many times to create a web application operating system that allows users to operate through a browser, that is, through a browser, users can operate a remote operating system without the need for a local computer to install an operating system . (The netbook, Chromebook, launched by google a few years ago, is to define a notebook computer as a browser, and all operations must be connected to the Internet to complete. The performance of the local computer only needs to support basic networking and video playback, and everything else is handled. to the server to handle.)

   At this time, in order to cope with the growing power of Netscape, Microsoft directly purchased the source code of the prototype version of the Netscape Navigator browser, which is the first version of the browser that Mark Anderson made in college. Then, after the modification, it is released, that is, the IE browser.

   This is Microsoft's housekeeping skills. Many interviews have also mentioned how Microsoft's operating system came from. Basically, after buying it and changing it, it becomes your own.

   Well, in the next few years, penguins will carry forward this housekeeping skills and grow flowers.

  …

  In the villa, Zhao Song shook his head gently, putting aside his messy thoughts, and then waved his hand to signal the excited Wang Xin to sit down and talk.

  The kind of scene that Wang Xin said did not come true when he returned from death.

   But he is willing to try, even if the attempt fails, the things derived from this attempt are beneficial and harmless to Tesla.

   Because he knows a miracle that everyone turns a blind eye to in the field of web development - VBscript died, Dart failed, leaving only Javascript standing in the future!

   "Atwood's Law: Any application system that can be implemented in Javascript will eventually be implemented in Javascript."

This is proposed by JEFF, the founder of Stackoverflow in 2007. Ten years later, this law basically works, and ASM.JS and its subsequent webassembly, which use a subset of Javascript as assembly language, make web applications more comparable to native ones. The potential of the application, running Unity3d games in the browser is not a problem!

   Zhao Song took out a document and handed it to Wang Xin, who was quiet, and said with a smile:

   "Don't get excited, it's just an idea I'm going to try, you look at the information first."

   Seeing Wang Xin seriously looking at the information, Zhao Song continued to introduce:

   "Two years ago, in exchange, some of the money I made in the financial market had to be invested in the American stock market, so I took advantage of the opportunity to acquire several technology companies and obtained some technology licenses."

  Wang Xin looked up from the document and murmured, "Mozilla?"

   "Yes, Mozilla." Zhao Song nodded and said, "After Netscape was acquired by America Online, some went to Microsoft, some went to Google, and some went to the open source community and continued to pursue their own persistence."

   Speaking of this, Zhao Song looked at Wang Xin and teased, "As a tech giant in the community, I believe you are familiar with those people, right?"

  Wang Xin was surprised. In the Internet, he was the boss of a small company. In reality, he knew his role very well. He didn't expect to be picked up in Zhao Song.

"There are people who are still working on the new Netscape browser, and the last part of the people is doing this Mozilla. America Online was funding it until 2001, affected by the Internet crash, and the relationship with Time Warner, Tess Pull it up and take it over."

  This is the forward-looking layout of the richest man. He is the most powerful man in the open source circle. He didn’t even know that Mozilla had changed his owner in the past two years. Wang Xin guessed silently in his heart.

   "The purpose of your visit to me is."

Hearing Wang Xin's question, Zhao Song pointed to the mobile phone on the table and said: "Based on the Mozilla kernel, first, presided over the development of a functional machine browser, the main function is to extract the text content of the webpage, and display it to mobile phone users after the layout ( Similar to UC); second, make a web browser that conforms to the habits of domestic users.”

  Wang Xin looked at Zhao Song in surprise and asked, "Are you going to outsource?"

   "Acquisition."

   Zhao Song denied his speculation, "I'll buy your team."

   "If it's just those two projects," Wang Xin shook his head and said, "Outsourcing is more cost-effective than buying my company."

"Those two projects are just a test of your ability." Zhao Song smiled casually, "Tesla is already a member of the W3C organization, so in the future, I will participate in the organization to formulate HTML standards, license the Mozilla kernel to all manufacturers for free, and establish domestic Open source websites and formulate API (application programming interface) specifications are what Tesla’s chief software technology officer should do.”

   "Where's Frank?" Wang Xin was surprised. He didn't expect it to be such an important position.

   "He proved himself at Tesla and fulfilled his previous dream, so..." Zhao Song shrugged, "A foreigner, it's one thing to think about, so he's going to venture into other fields."

   Zhao Song did not say what the founder of MP3 was going to do.

   "...Mr. Zhao"

  Wang Xin thought for a long time before saying with difficulty, "I need time to think about it, and I have to inform my team."

   "It should." Zhao Song nodded, then pointed to the information in his hand and said, "Mr. Wang, if the system is a platform, then the browser is the entrance to the Internet. If you grasp this entrance, you will control the future.

  The bundled sales of Shenzhou and Tesla can bring it countless users, and keeping these users is the main task of Tesla's software engineers.

  Mr. Wang, the information needs to be kept confidential. Whether you agree or not, I hope you can rot what you saw today. "

  Wang Xin nodded solemnly, if what he saw today spreads out, it must cause an uproar:

Shenzhou is a major shareholder of Penguin, and Zhao Song owns shares in Shenzhou; Shanda acquired Sina, and Zhao Song is a major shareholder of Shanda; Zhongguancun Holdings invested in Jingxi Mall, which is Zhao Song's personal enterprise; Tesla sued Qiandu because of pirated music. The two sides are negotiating the Qiandu share compensation agreement, and Zhao Song is the founder of Tesla

  Although I don't know what these Internet companies have to do with Zhao Song's browser strategy, the next strategy of the richest man who grows flowers is definitely the Internet!

   But Wang Xin was wrong.

   Zhao Song's real strategic goal is the chip ecosystem based on the wireless Internet.

   No matter how unimportant the ISA of the CPU is in the future, it will always be the foundation of all systems. On this basis, only a sound ecology can make it develop.

   And Zhao Song's real goal is to prepare an ecology floating in the clouds, waiting for that moment to come!

  There is such a line in the movie "The Grand Master": "Why does the sword have a sheath, not for killing, but for hiding."

  Now, only Zhao Song knows that the real entrance to the Internet is not a system or a browser at all, but those

  Super APP!

   In other words, a browser that integrates all super APPs.

  …

   "Mr. Zhao, when the browser is launched, will it be called Mozilla?"

   Before leaving, Wang Xin asked this question.

"Do not……"

   Zhao Song shook his head, thought for a while, and then said slowly:

   "It's called 'Firefox'!"

   I'm very sorry, I had a sudden illness and I was dizzy for two days.

   There is another paroxysm. What kind of tachycardia, depressed.

   After the technical issues are laid out, it may be easier to write.

Sorry again.

Other:

   Wang Xin is a fictional character.

  

  

   (end of this chapter)