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the conference has ended.

When Benjamin returned to the IBM headquarters with his team, a piece of news quickly spread throughout the industry, and the magazine "Popular Electronics" immediately reported the situation.

"The cooperation between Big Blue and the software tycoon, the passion collision between IBM and Microsoft! 》

The picture is accompanied by a moment when Bill Gates, the chairman and CEO of Microsoft, shook hands with Benjamin, the head of IBM's marketing department. Behind him is a Microsoft conference room. A crowd of people are waiting around them. A telephone is placed on the table.

As soon as this article was published, computer enthusiasts across the country were immediately excited. Although no one knew what that "Internet operating system" was, the reputation of IBM and Microsoft was enough to make everyone excited. .

One is the industry leader established at the beginning of the century, the blue giant with a market value of 100 billion yuan, and the other is the emerging king of the software industry established by college dropouts. Microsoft, which has just launched Windows 1.0, is in full swing. This kind of cooperation, which can be described as a combination of strong forces, immediately attracted a lot of discussions among the people with thousands of skills.

But then, the question was put on the stage.

Why would these two companies develop such a project?

What is going on with the "Internet operating system"?

Newspapers and magazines in the IT industry headed by "Popular Electronics" immediately began the work of popularizing knowledge. Suddenly, more and more people realized that the scope of the Internet throughout the United States is far from the previous days. It can be compared. According to the data provided by some professional channels, it seems that it will not be necessary for every household in the United States to have access to the Internet in 2000.

Therefore, it is natural for Microsoft and IBM to develop such a system at this time.

Of course, the people's thirst for information is far from being satisfied. When the next issue of "Popular Electronics" is published, another company will quickly come into the eyes of the general public.

Cisco Systems, registered in San Jose, California, is mainly engaged in the development and sales of Internet hardware. The current main product is called routers. This is a low-cost, small-volume instrument that can be easily compatible with different types of network protocols, and has a wide range of applications in corporate offices.

When this issue of "Volkswagen Electronics" was released, if the people were only slightly surprised, then the industry was shocked.

A company that was just established last year was not established for a little more than a year as of the end of August. But in such a small amount of time, it has become a "behemoth!?" with more than 50 employees and a profit of one million yuan a month.

Indeed, this achievement is nothing, but after comparing it with the establishment time, this huge contrast almost compares the IT industry tycoons such as Microsoft, Apple, Dell, and even IBM!

Because many people in the industry have quickly realized that Internet hardware is a no-man's land in the industry!

"Even if it is no man's land, it is definitely not something ordinary people can do to expand the market so fast."

Time, a working day afternoon in late August, in the core meeting room of the IBM headquarters, the board of directors meeting is being held.

"According to the survey, the first business of Cisco Systems was done at the Los Angeles University Consortium last year. This is their product."

At the end of the conference table, the Minister of Technology Department Almin put a suitcase-sized instrument on the table: "The other party’s technical level is very good. According to our technology department’s research, this is a fully mature product with almost no need for software code. The only place for improvement is the computing power of the CPU."

This sentence was very simple, but all the members of the board of directors looked at each other.

"What does it mean that the software code does not need to be improved?"

A director asked: "You are not going to tell us that deleting any piece of code will crash the system, and the code design is extremely refined, and you can't do a bit of reverse engineering?"

Almin looked distressed. This man who has served at IBM for 20 years and has served as technology minister for more than five years has a rare time when he sweats like this: "I'm sorry, Mr. Remus, but the situation... It is true."

"The other party's programming code is too refined, and the logical way is absolutely... amazing. To put it vividly, it is like a graphic design, on the one hand it is absolutely concise, just like Nike's LOGO is just a check mark. The same profile; on the one hand, it is the kind of creativity, like after seeing a certain LOGO design, many people feel that they can design it by themselves, but if they really start, they have no way to start."

Almin’s description is very clear.

Graphic design is often like this. When customers see the results, they can easily say things like "it turns out to be that way". It's like Nike's LOGO, Apple's LOGO, or any product of certain style. After seeing it, people will think that those designers are nothing great, and he can design it himself.

But I really want those people to design... but nothing can be designed.

This is what Almin felt about this router. After seeing the other party's perfect code, although he still doesn't know who the author is, he seems to have a shocking impulse.

The code of this router is exquisite, like a perfect circle, or like the golden ratio of the human body. Every additional stroke is superfluous, and every loss of it is a violent thing.

Moreover, just like a common phenomenon in many design fields, although after seeing it, many people will suddenly realize that there is such a design. But if I really let myself produce the same original work, it would be impossible to say anything.

"Almin, you are an old man in the company, and you have to be responsible for your words. Is the procedure of this router really as exaggerated as you said?"

Facing a question from a certain director, Almin nodded and said: "I know that all directors will definitely have this kind of question, so I asked the secretary to print out part of the code before the meeting started. Please browse it."

It turned out that Almin had already made preparations, and the directors were surprised, and they all took the information handed by the secretary and looked at it.

Then, looking at it, I couldn't look up.

As time passed by, Almin sat down silently looking at the solemn expressions of everyone in the room.

He sighed softly.

The more details, the more it can reflect the strength of an enterprise. Although Cisco's current scale is not that big, it is just an ant compared to the Big Blue, but there is such an excellent programmer...

Almin secretly speculated that it might be Bill Gates a few years ago. His talents were not so outstanding when he emerged, right? He has no doubt that the other party is a newcomer in the industry, or he has already been well-known in other companies, and he has the turn to let a small company that has just been established a year to throw this level of product?

Sure enough, it is not just himself who is curious and worried. By his side, Benjamin of the Marketing Department whispered: "Can you write this level of code?"

Almin shook his head and said: "Impossible. Although it seems very simple after seeing the finished product, if you write it yourself, no one in the entire company has this level."

"It seems that there is a big name in Cisco Systems, do you have any clues?"

Almin looked at him: "Do you have one?"

Benjamin blinked without answering.

It's just that Almin was a little surprised to find that Benjamin, who had always been steady, trembled his fingers.

And he also noticed that Benjamin was always preoccupied after returning from Redmond.

What is going on?

A little bit of time passed. It was only three pages of A4 paper. All the members of the board of directors looked at it for half an hour. After everyone looked up, the director who spoke before sighed: "It's really great, Almin, the other party applies Is the patent right?"

This sentence was not for Xiang Almin. Another director said: "It's a pity. According to our spies, Lucent Technologies also tried Cisco’s idea not long ago, but it didn’t make any major moves in a short period of time. The main reason is Cisco's awareness of patent protection is too good."

“The decision-makers of the target company obviously knew the market size of routers for a long time, so they had registered the patent before launching this product. And the most hateful thing is that the registrant actually took all the technologies that we might learn from. After applying, the other party must be a genius in the industry. Not only can he compile the program, but he can also guess how we might exploit loopholes!"

After speaking, the whole audience looked at the chief.

Aker, the then president of IBM, just took office this year, and he proposed and implemented the cooperation with Microsoft. But now, facing this company called Cisco Systems, there is no doubt that the newly appointed president is facing a huge challenge.

"First of all, we must admit that ~lightnovelpub.net~ this is not the mistake of the marketing department."

Aker said: "Cisco has only been established for a year. For us with decades of history, there are too many companies like this. It is understandable that the marketing department did not notice its existence. Benjamin, don't be too much. under pressure."

After pacifying his subordinates, he went on to say: "However, now that we are cooperating with Microsoft, we also cooperate with Cisco. What do you think?"

Everyone looked at each other, and a director said: "You mean...buy it?"

Aker smiled slightly: "Oh... this is not what I said, but it's a good idea."

The voice fell, and there was a deep laughter in the conference room. (To be continued.)

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