Chapter 231: Attack Tu'o
Now Xiao Wenjun is also a person with a net worth of millions, and it is difficult to say how many people can rank in the entire Tsinghua University, but among students, if you only consider the money you make, Xiao Wenjun is definitely the richest man, and who will treat you to a meal in the student cafeteria is really not worth mentioning.
Hearing Tang Zifeng say that inviting himself to a meal was a deposit, Xiao Wenjun just smiled, and then put a piece of fat picked out of the dish into Tang Zifeng's bowl. Tang Zifeng's eyes lit up, and he quickly picked up the piece of fat and stuffed it into his mouth, chewing it with a creaky sound, as if he had never eaten fat meat in his life.
The little couple finished eating affectionately, and they talked all the way back to the downstairs of the mechanical department. Xiao Wenjun waved to Tang Zifeng and went back to the laboratory. Tang Zifeng watched Xiao Wenjun enter the building gate, and then happily walked to the gate of the second school, raised his hand to stop an empty taxi, and went to the new Jingwei Software Company.
"Yo, Mr. Tang has come to guide the work in person, why didn't he say hello in advance?"
Li Kejia, who was typing in the general manager's office, saw Tang Zifeng who pushed the door in, and suddenly got up to greet him with a smile. Tang Zifeng is also one of the shareholders of the company, and there is no need to report at the front desk when entering and leaving the company. Li Kejia knew that Tang Zifeng was doing business in the capital in the past few days, so he made an appointment with Tang Zifeng in advance and asked him to come to the company at a convenient time.
"I haven't been here for a few months, and the company has changed a lot. Colorful flags are displayed everywhere, and the fighting spirit is high. Mr. Li is worthy of being a senior executive of a foreign company, and he has good management, which can be admired to the core. ”
Tang Zifeng sat down on the sofa and teased Li Kejia with the same smile.
"Don't laugh at me!" Li Kejia pulled a chair, sat opposite Tang Zifeng, waved his hand, made a strange expression, and said: "I'm dying of sorrow now, looking forward to the stars and the moon every day, waiting for Director Tang to come and solve my problems." ”
"Isn't this coming? What does the senior sister command, even if the horse is released, this junior brother will never give up. ”
"This is still like a human saying, it's not in vain that Senior Sister covered you when she was at school. ”
"Cover me...... , Senior Sister, this is easy to make people ambiguous. ”
"Look for death, you!Tang Zifeng, you've changed!"
After laughing and laughing, Li Kejia put away his smile and said: "Seriously, after the launch of Huaxia CAD4.0, the market evaluation is very good, and many designers think that it is not worse than Tuao CAD, and the design of some functions is even more convenient than Tuao CAD." I have discussed with Yun Tao and Xiao Han, and we all feel that the time is ripe to replace Tuao CAD with Huaxia CAD. ”
Huaxia CAD is the core product of New Jingwei Company. This product was first developed by the company's two founders, Zhao Yuntao and Liu Xiaohan, and is a simple imitation of the most popular international CAD. Zhao Yuntao and Liu Xiaohan were originally technicians of state-owned research institutes, and after jointly developing the 1.0 version of Huaxia CAD, they resigned and went to the sea to found the new Jingwei company, hoping to have a chance to show their talents.
The ideal is very plump, but the reality is very skinny. Because the function of Huaxia CAD is too simple, and the market is full of pirated Tuao CAD, the new Jingwei company only sold 45 sets of software in a year after its establishment, earning more than 10,000 yuan, and even Zhao and Liu's living expenses are not enough.
Li Kejia was the marketing director of Tuao CAD China at that time, because she was optimistic about the prospects of Huaxia CAD, she resigned and joined the new Jingwei company, which was a venture capital for her, although the new Jingwei company at that time was still a leather bag company that could not even pay her salary, but if Huaxia CAD could soar, her income would be much higher than the high salary given to her by foreign companies.
A wise move after Li Kejia joined New Jingwei was to introduce Tang Zifeng, a strategic partner. Tang Zifeng asked the new Jingwei company to help develop the pattern design software supporting the wood carving machine tool, and sold it to Linyi machine at a price of 888 yuan per set, and then sold it with the wood carving machine tool at a price of 2680 yuan. Tens of thousands of sets of wood carving machine tools have been sold before and after, and the new Jingwei company has also earned seven or eight million because of this, and has realized the turnaround of salted fish in one fell swoop.
With money, Li Kejia's business talent was activated. She rented a new office space, recruited a group of impoverished code farmers from the market, and actively explored new business directions while comprehensively upgrading Huaxia CAD. When Tang Zifeng was preparing to build the Canglong Research Institute, in order to make up the number, he let the new Jingwei Company also join it. Since then, some of the software development work of the Canglong Research Institute has been subcontracted to New Jingwei Company, which has provided New Jingwei Company with another stable source of income.
Two years have passed since the wood carving machine was matched. With the investment of no matter the cost, Huaxia CAD has been upgraded from the initial version 1.0 to 4.0, which is fully compatible with Tuao CAD in terms of functions. There is no such thing as software function, and there is no patent right to speak of. Because the function corresponds to the customer's needs, each software must meet the needs of the customer, and it can't be said that your software can draw gears, and my software can't draw.
In addition to the functions, Huaxia CAD's core algorithms are completely autonomous, and some algorithms are even better than Tuao CAD. Tuo CAD appeared earlier, and in order to match the hardware conditions at that time, many compromises were made in the algorithm. Although Tuo CAD has been continuously upgraded over the years, it is impossible to update all the algorithms because of the too many modules involved and the compatibility with lower versions of the software, and some algorithms in the kernel have long been outdated.
Huaxia CAD has no historical burden, it has been developed with reference to the latest hardware environment from the beginning, and can use a variety of newly emerged algorithms, so the efficiency is better than that of Tuao CAD, which makes Li Kejia quite complacent.
Another advantage of Huaxia CAD comes from the abundant resources of cheap code farmers. In the United States, an excellent programmer's annual salary exceeds $100,000, which translates to 800,000 yuan in RMB. In China, the monthly salary of hiring a software student who graduated from Qingbei is only 3,000 yuan, and the annual salary is only 40,000 yuan. In other words, the cost of hiring a programmer in the United States can be 20 people in China.
By the way, the same programmers, the work intensity of Chinese programmers is much higher than that of foreign programmers, 996 This kind of thing is definitely not unique to the 21st century, and the code farmers in the 90s are far more difficult than the code farmers in the 21st century. In this way, 20 programmers in China can at least be equivalent to 40 programmers in the United States.
Tang Zifeng pointed this out to Li Kejia, who understood and began to desperately pile up human resources and make a software into a labor-intensive product.
For the convenience of users, all CAD developers will come with some commonly used part templates in the software, and users can design some conventional parts as long as they call up the template and change a few parameters. However, the development of this kind of part template requires a cost, so the template provided by CAD developers is very limited, and some templates need to be charged separately and expensive.
Li Kejia has a large number of cheap code farmers in his hands, and the cost of developing parts templates is much lower than that of foreign companies, so all kinds of templates are added to Huaxia CAD as if they don't need money. Buying a set of software and giving away a whole box of CD-ROM templates is something that only Chinese companies can do.
At this point, Li Kejia finally dared to say that it could replace Tuao CAD with Huaxia CAD, a goal that she and Tang Zifeng had determined two years ago.
"How is the sales of the software now?" asked Tang Zifeng.
"2,300 units were sold last month. However, we understand that most users buy for the templates we give away. They are used to using Tuo CAD, basically pasting our templates into Tuo CAD for editing, and as for our software, the installation rate is not high. Li Kejia said.
"Isn't this something we expected a long time ago?" Tang Zifeng said with a smile. TOAO CAD is an internationally renowned software, and the vast majority of domestic designers use TOUA's CAD, and no one can learn a new CAD out of thin air, not to mention that this new CAD is still domestic software.
Li Kejia said: "That's true, that's why I'm looking for you." You promised me that when Huaxia CAD technology matures, you will start with Tuao CAD, and now the time has come, it is time for you to take action. ”
"Are you sure that there is no problem with your software?" asked Tang Zifeng.
Li Kejia said: "We found nearly 100 companies to do testing, paid their engineers to use Huaxia CAD to do the design, and immediately modified the problems when they found them. Zhao Yuntao and Liu Xiaohan went directly to the factory to discuss the details of the software with the engineers, and in more than a year, the company spent more than 2 million yuan on travel expenses alone. So far, I don't dare to say that there is no problem at all, in fact, Too's software also has problems at three ends in three days, and the reliability of our software is probably slightly better than Too. ”
Li Kejia said that Tang Zifeng also knew about doing software testing. The Canglong Research Institute played a big role in this matter. With the help of the machine 20 system, Canglong Research Institute invited 20 large machine tool companies to help carry out the test of Huaxia CAD, and these machine tool companies contacted some familiar customer companies to help. The customers of machine tool enterprises are naturally machinery manufacturing enterprises, and they all use CAD software.
Hearing Li Kejia's answer, Tang Zifeng was relieved. Li Kejia is a person who knows when to brag and when to seek truth from facts. In this matter, if she exaggerates, not only will she push Tang Zifeng to the fire in the end, but the new Jingwei company will also suffer irreparable losses.
"I am sure that the mechanical department will come forward to promote Huaxia CAD in the national mechanical system. The company should prepare a group of training lecturers, who are responsible for the training of Huaxia CAD in various places. However, before that, there is one thing that needs to be done first, that is, to transfer the 40% equity I own to the Canglong Research Institute. Tang Zifeng said.
"Transfer the equity in your hand to the Canglong Research Institute? why!" Li Kejia's eyes widened, this was something she definitely didn't expect.