Seattle Computer Products, Inc.!

The next day, Xia Yu followed the location of the information that had already been investigated, and found the target this time.

The company, a well-known software company in Seattle, was founded in 1972 and now has more than 100 employees.

This time, Xia Yu is planning to acquire Seattle Computer Products Company as a wholly-owned company.

Since Microsoft can't take it, as long as it takes this company, the effect will be the same.

Even because of the strength and popularity of Seattle Computer Products, and Xia Yu's status as a director of IBM, it is easier to get orders for IBM's operating system than in history.

The premise is that Xia Yu must get the operating system out.

In the previous life, Microsoft bought the QDOS system in the hands of an employee of this company and transformed it into its own MS-DOS system.

After entering the company, Xia Yu bluntly proposed to acquire Seattle Computer Products.

This time, he was different from the attitude towards Microsoft, he appeared to be more aggressive, let his subordinates come forward during negotiations, and made a strong decision at the critical moment.

The three founders of Seattle Computer Products are not from wealthy families, so they are not as good as Bill Gates in terms of long-term vision, and the effect of throwing money is good.

Because of the urgency of time, Xia Yu and others negotiated with them four times, and then negotiated a price, and at a high price of $6.2 million, they wholly acquired the Seattle Computer Products Company.

As for the three company founders, two left, and the most important one, Andy Ross, the chief technology officer (CTO), changed his mind and stayed after talking to Xia Yu alone for an afternoon.

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"Andy, please take me around the company and familiarize myself with the situation. ”

One morning, Xia Yu came to the Seattle Computer Products Company, found Andy Ross, the only founder left, and ordered with a light smile.

Andy Ross was very obedient and said, "Okay, boss, please come with me." ”

Andy Ross is also a genius, graduated from Stanford University with a degree in computer science, and returned to his hometown of Seattle after graduation, where he founded Seattle Computer Products with two friends, serving as the company's chief technology officer because of his strong technical prowess.

It can be said that he is the most valuable person in the Seattle computer products company, after all, most of the company's products are developed under his leadership.

At that time, Andy Ross suddenly changed his mind and did not leave his job, but he was angry with his two friends to death, but Andy Ross was very resolute.

No way, for a person who is obsessed with technology, there is nothing more attractive to him than new knowledge and new ideas.

That afternoon, Xia Yu had a good chat with him about the development of the computer and software industry, looked forward to the infinite future, and drew a very delicious pie that seemed to be within reach, which aroused Andy Ross's infinite yearning.

In the end, Andy Ross fell under Xia Yu's concept and was fooled by him.

Xia Yu estimated that his flickering kung fu that afternoon was definitely comparable to Jack Ma's big pie painting technique.

After a while, Xia Yu followed Andy Ross to the company's software development department.

This department, in a huge office area, at a glance, at least seventy or eighty people.

In front of these people, there is an Apple II computer that is now popular on the market, and all of them are intently tapping the keyboard, as if programming.

With so many Apple II computers, it costs at least $150,000 to buy them.

But the Apple II is indeed the best personal computer available today, the best programming tool, and it is possible to create value more efficiently.

No matter how much you save, you shouldn't save the money of the guy who buys food.

Andy Ross wanted to applaud and call everyone's attention, but Xia Yu directly stopped his hand, shook his head to stop his actions, and said softly.

"Andy, I'll take a look first. ”

Andy Ross was a little confused, and couldn't figure out what Xia Yu wanted to do, so he nodded ignorantly and responded softly: "Okay." ”

Then, he followed Xia Yu and walked around with Xia Yu.

Starting near the door, Xia Yu came behind a programmer and watched him type out lines of code.

These seemingly boring lines of code are clear in Xia Yu's eyes, as simple as people who have passed professional English level 8 reading twenty-six letters.

There is no way, Xia Yu is proficient in the programming skills of later generations, and the programming skills, algorithms and syntax of later generations have been continuously developed and optimized for decades, but looking back on the present, it is like a doctoral student entering primary school.

Today's programming languages and algorithms are still in the early stages of the car, although AT&T's Bell Labs officially published the C language in 1978, but it has not defined a complete C language standard.

If you want to really develop a C standard, you have to wait until 1983, when it was developed by the American National Standards Institute.

NONE OF THE C LANGUAGES ARE UNIVERSAL, LET ALONE C++ AND JAVA.

The general basic language happens to be in my memory, and it is soease for Xia Yu.

The programmer turned around and saw a few people standing behind him, he had heard of Xia Yu, it seemed that he was the new owner of the acquisition company, and Andy Ross was the chief technology officer.

He felt uncomfortable with such a few important people standing behind him, and he typed the wrong keyboard several times while programming, apparently not concentrating.

Xia Yu smiled slightly, patted him on the shoulder, and whispered, "Don't be nervous, buddy, do a good job!"

"Thank you!"

The programmer's eyes widened, he said with a smile, and continued to work with great motivation.

Xia Yu then continued to walk down, stopping and stopping from time to time, observing the work of different programmers.

At this moment, he stopped behind a programmer in his thirties, looked at the programmer who was frowning and falling into a state of thought, and Xia Yu looked at the computer screen again.

In a few clicks, the code was read by Xia Yu, and a hint of surprise flashed in his eyes.

It turned out to be a program error, and it seems that the cause of the error is more advanced, not an ordinary wrong letter, wrong word symbol or something.

Seeing that Xia Yu seemed interested, Andy Ross whispered in Xia Yu's ear: "Boss, this is the company's senior engineer Jack Rhodes, whose ability can rank among the top few in the company, and now the problem he is thinking about is one of the problems existing in the company, and it has been stuck for two weeks, and I don't have a clear clue for the time being, so let the company's engineers take turns to try it and see if the inspiration can be solved suddenly." ”

Xia Yu bowed slightly in understanding, patted Jack Rhodes on the shoulder, and woke the latter up.

The latter was interrupted from his train of thought and was in a bad mood, but after seeing Xia Yu and Andy Rose next to him, he took a deep breath.

Xia Yu smiled and said, "Trouble let me see." ”

Andy Ross immediately said to Jack Rhodes: "Jack, please get up first and let the boss take a look." ”

Jack Rhodes was stunned for a moment, although he got up obediently, but his eyes were full of doubts when he looked at Xia Yu, as if he was wondering if Andy Rose was joking.

Andy Ross shook his head, an expectation rose in his heart, and said to Jack Rhodes: "Jack, don't talk yet, watch quietly." ”

Jack Rhodes shrugged and whispered, "Okay." ”

Xia Yu didn't pay attention to the conversation and eye contact between the two, and directly pulled the program he was editing to the top and began to look at it carefully.

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