Although IBM strategically attaches great importance to this anti-IBM alliance, after all, almost the vast majority of major computer companies have joined it.

But tactically, for the time being, IBM doesn't think they're going to make much progress.

First of all, it's a loose union. While acknowledging that every member of the alliance wants IBM to overturn in the gutter, there are no fewer conflicts between the members than between them and IBM.

Historically, the more alliances that have participated, the less reliable they are, and in IBM's view, this so-called anti-IBM alliance can be described as a plate of scattered sand.

There are not enough interests and projects to drive them, and these people just get together to shoot commercials and shout at two voices.

What's more, IBM thinks that if it doesn't make mistakes, others can't do anything about it. After all, IBM, as a giant in the computer industry, has been like this for so many years.

As long as it maintains its offensive in the field of propaganda, it does not have to worry about any real losses for the time being. Who wouldn't shout about bringing down the hegemony of US imperialism, did US imperialism lose a piece of meat?

But just as bread always has a creamy side to the ground, the Chinese also have an old saying: good is not bad, and no one in this world must act according to IBM's script.

For example, a drawer server.

“whataf**kday！”

Dave, the president of IBM, pointed to Joey, the sweaty business executive, and almost scolded.

"Such a big thing, you told me that you didn't have any news before? Are you kidding me!"

Dave pointed to the front page of the newspaper with a gloomy face. Joey peeked over. I saw the news headline printed in bold bold on it. It was written-

“criticalstrike！”

Drawer servers will be part of the Empire State Building service!

Joey doesn't have to read the text. Because he had already read the text more than once. The reporter for this report compares in detail the upcoming Empire State Building's compute rental business, which alone will save Empire State Building owners tens of millions of dollars in annual expenses.

Of course, in the news, the reporter will not tell the reader that this comparison is a comparison between the annual rent of the computing resource and the purchase price of the PC.

In fact, calculating the annual rent of resources is like the cost of Internet access, and you have to pay every year. The cost of the PC does not have to be changed every year.

In this way, a sensational report stands out.

Use the computing resource rental business provided by the Empire State Building. Because customers only need to configure a thin client computer, plus a one-year computing resource rental fee, the annual cost is only "measly" $800.

This is really more than a star and a half cheaper than the IBMPC, which can only be purchased for at least $3,000. For any business company that is concerned about the cost, the server-to-client model is really convenient.

Know that if they could, the bosses would even want their wives to rent them - so that they wouldn't have to pay for the depreciation of the bosses.

Of course, the Empire State Building doesn't need to increase rental income in this way, although it's better to have rent than nothing. Think from the perspective of the Empire State Building. Centralized computer systems are more energy-efficient, and in addition to this, this high-tech service can remain "forced". As two iconic buildings in New York. The Empire State Building has always billed itself as a high-tech, modern office building, and has always been at the forefront of experimenting with the use of technology.

There are many people in the anti-IBM coalition, and it really shouldn't be too easy to find a way to do the work of the Empire State Building property company.

Hu Wenhai came up with the concept machine of the drawer server at a speed beyond IBM's imagination, and under the premise of being driven by profits, the pace of Americans' technological transformation can make China stunned at this time.

"It was a mistake on my part to neglect to keep track of the league market action. Unable to defend himself, Joey bowed his head and admitted his mistake.

Who actually made the judgment that "the alliance will not act in the near future" is none other than Dave, the president of IBM?

Of course, such a judgment is not wrong. Under normal circumstances, it is indeed impossible for this loose alliance to operate so efficiently and with such a strong ability to keep secrets.

The anti-IBM alliance should be a scattered mess. This is also the reason why IBM dominated the competition in the 80s. The contradictions between computer manufacturers are no smaller than those with IBM.

Dave sat down silently, looked at Joey and asked, "Now let's not talk about responsibility, does the business department have any plan to fight back against the alliance or prevent them from promoting the drawer server?"

"This, I think we can continue to promote the friendliness of IBMPC to individual users, and it is likely that data transmission will not be able to keep up with the development of computing volume in the future......"

"What I want is a strategy that can produce immediate results, and I can't fight with the alliance on all fronts, even IBM can't do that!"

"In this case, I think there is only one way. Joey gritted his teeth, and finally said: "Motorola's plan has failed, if you want to break the alliance in a short time, you can only agree to the Chinese's bid." If you can buy Cisco and master the most critical data transmission technology, the alliance will soon fall apart. ”

Dave never imagined that IBM would face such a choice. Cisco, a small company that had earned less than $100,000 in the first six months, had to pay hundreds of times more for its 50 percent stake.

This is blackmail, naked blackmail. The blue giant IBM was blackmailed by a Chinese.

Sitting in his office chair and silent for a long time, Dave finally asked, "How much do the Chinese bid?"

"Last week was the third month, and the purchase price had risen to $300 million. ”

Dave had a toothache and knew how good it would be to buy Hu Wenhai's Cisco shares for $100 million two months ago. With a loss of 100 million a month, even IBM is distressed to death.

"Can we negotiate to bring the price down?" Dave asked reluctantly.

Joey hesitated: "This, if it is delayed until next month, I don't know if the Chinese will continue to increase the price." ”

"Anyway, give it a try!" After all, there was still time, and Dave was a little unwilling to give away hundreds of millions of funds.

"The work of the business department must not be relaxed, and the actions of the alliance must be closely followed, and they must not be allowed to continue to expand the market!"

"Understood. ”

Joey Khan rained down.

However, things often did not turn out as IBM had hoped, and the anti-IBM coalition brought together 18 well-known computer companies. Such a large-scale market alliance, where can a business unit of IBM be targeted?

No matter how strong IBM is, after all, two fists are hard to beat four hands.

Soon, more application cases came to the market one after another. Without exception, the cost of simply configuring a PC is much higher than configuring a client to rent computing resources.

The final fatal blow to IBM was that as time went by, the "anti-IBM" flavor of this alliance became weaker and weaker.

When almost half of the large companies in the market sit together, everyone suddenly finds that a new world has opened up.

Motorola's 68000 CPU has been widely used in this system, on the one hand, to take care of Steve Jobs, and on the other hand, it has had enough influence on Motorola itself.

Soon, after Hu Wenhai's matchmaking, Motorola was also considering whether it should join the alliance.

Seeing that the 68 architecture may resurgence in the desktop market, Intel, which was originally sitting firmly in the Diaoyutai, can't sit still this time.

As soon as the three-level supercomputing, server, and client architecture proposed by Simon Clay was revealed, Deyi, who was studying DSP chips day by day, couldn't sit still.

IMMEDIATELY AFTER THAT, THIS TREND BLEW INTO THE SOFTWARE INDUSTRY, AND LOTUS, NOVELL, AND EVEN MICROSOFT WERE A BIT OF A STIR.

The server-to-client system has not been promoted so quickly, but the problem is that no one in this world is really stupid, and many people have already seen the so-called "anti-IBM alliance" at this time have the potential to grow into an industry monopoly alliance.

Of course, people won't say it so explicitly. What kind of industry monopolies? No, the Federal Supreme Court will give you a huge fine in minutes, believe it or not?

However, as long as IBM is in the front, this alliance cannot be said to be a monopoly in any way. Of course, the price negotiation within our alliance is by no means a market manipulation, it is a normal coordination mechanism!

The alliance is just, and the alliance is the freedom fighter against IBM's autocratic hegemony!

We're doing this to fight against the powerful IBM that wants to monopolize the PC industry! Just take down IBM -- well, let's talk about it after we take it down.

Hu Wenhai made up this drawer server, but he took care of the interests of the manufacturers in the alliance as much as possible. The flexibility of the blade server, coupled with the fact that the router overcomes the data transmission problem between different systems, makes this alliance a sufficiently open foundation.

Based on the alliance, there are already people discussing the issue of unifying the hardware and software architecture, and solving the standard dispute for compatible machines. And once they start discussing such issues, Intel and Microsoft are in a hurry to burn their butts. Even if they ask for a public instruction set and APIs, they can't help but pinch their noses and start thinking about it formally.

Capital is alive, and once it smells of monopoly, it's like Erha in the south seeing snow, and it's definitely not something that the master can pull back with a rope.

At this time, the alliance did not focus on IBM, but instead had the strongest threat to IBM.

It was in this situation that Joey had to bite the bullet and ask Hu Wenhai to meet for the third time through Parker. (To be continued......)