It's true that you can get it at a lower price, but if it's too high, it's not worth it.

Han Chudong has money in his hands, and he also knows which direction he should develop in the future, except for some necessary patented technologies, such as mice, graphical desktop operating systems, etc., in fact, Otto products themselves are not too valued by him.

The operating system used by Otto, the programming language is too niche, or it will be eliminated in a short time, rather than wasting money to take over, it is better to pay for people to form a team and redevelop it according to their own ideas.

It is better to build a closed system, and then build an open system, and directly seize the opportunities that should belong to Apple and Microsoft, and try to become an "operating system tycoon".

After a happy dream, Han Chudong got up from the computer and said, "It's an interesting product, if you design a few more games, add a cassette socket and a special gamepad, maybe you can attract a large number of video game lovers, like Atari's street game console Ping Pong." ”

An engineer listened to Han Chudong compare it with the "Ping Pong" coin-operated game consoles that can be seen everywhere on the streets today, and suddenly felt deeply aggrieved.

As he was about to tell Otto that it was more advanced, more professional, and the best microcomputer on the market, his supervisor, Marilyn Turner, was the first to say, "It's great to play games with it! Our engineers can make more interesting games for it, and I've thought so before, but unfortunately I don't have any experience in the video game business." ”

Seeing that Director Marilyn Turner followed his topic and said, how could Han Chudong not guess that this was pouring ecstasy soup on himself, and replied: "Recently, I have also been visiting other companies, and the cost of producing such an Otto microcomputer should not be low, if the price is too high, I will definitely not be able to open the market, especially when the home game console product I invested in is about to go on the market." ”

As a businessman, you have to figure out when to be smart and when to play stupid.

On this occasion, Han Chudong has to behave shrewdly, otherwise he will only be slaughtered as a fat pig, so as soon as the middle-aged female supervisor in front of him praised the product, he poured cold water and asked about the cost.

Marilyn Turner didn't say anything in public, and after taking Han Chudong back to her office, she said: "Otto's production cost is relatively high now, but if it is mass-produced, the cost may be reduced by 20 percent, or even 30 percent, depending on how much you purchase." Actually, the factory is not under my management, but if you buy more than 500 units, I guarantee to get you the lowest price. ”

"No, no, no, I think you misunderstood me, Ms. Turner. The reason I visited your microcomputer manufacturers was because I wanted to acquire an existing R&D team, as well as ready-made technology. ”

“…… You mean, you want to buy us here??!"

Han Chudong shook his head and continued to speak: "I haven't thought about it yet, I'm only in the stage of selecting acquisition targets, and to be honest, I admit that Otto is more convenient to use, but ...... It's useless, isn't it, I can't even think of what people can do with it, and probably only researchers will be interested. ”

It's like going to a stall to buy something and trying to drive down the price, and he's blatantly belittling the product at the moment.

"However, if it were to be turned into a game console, it would appeal to some young players, and judging by the sales of the Ping Pong arcade, it would probably be nice if the project was lucky enough to succeed." Maybe Ms. Turner, you can call right now and ask the board members who are really able to make decisions and see how much money I'm going to have to pay for them to sell me this research center. ”

He had heard about the game console so many times from Han Chudong that Marilyn Turner really believed that he wanted to use Otto as a game console.

I was a little resistant, because the project I worked hard to manage was likely to be packaged and resold like garbage.

However, people at her level can't participate in decision-making, since Han Chudong has made a request, she must let the senior management know the news, Ms. Turner nodded and replied: "Please wait a few minutes, I'll call the CEO of Xerox first, and ask someone to take you on a tour of the company?"

"Don't bother anyone, I'll take a look around myself, OK?"

"Of course, feel free to ......"

Marilyn Turner picked up the phone as soon as Han Chudong left, dialed Xerox Company, headquartered in Fairfield County, Connecticut, and asked the secretary to transfer to the CEO's office, specifically instructing that there was a very urgent matter.

From the fact that Xerox easily took out tens of millions of dollars to develop and produce microcomputers that have little to do with the company's main products, and gave them away, it is enough to see how generous this listed company that made a fortune by photocopiers is, and it almost monopolizes the mid-to-high-end copier market and occupies a technological advantage.

Speaking of Otto computers, it can be seen from its design that the original intention is actually to improve the way of working, drive the cultivation of a new printer industry, and then increase Xerox's profits. It is part of the ancillary product, and I want people to process text and pictures on the computer, and then print them directly on paper.

The idea is relatively good, but it is a pity that the Otto microcomputer designed is very weak, and the so-called inkjet printing technology is still stuck in the laboratory drawings.

This led to the CEO of Xerox Bob, when he heard that Han Chudong wanted to acquire the entire project, he was both excited and embarrassed.

At present, many companies are competing for the printer market, and in Bob Sr.'s opinion, Otto is very useless now, but what if it develops in the future, the laboratory has already used IBM's commercial computer-related printers to start printing some documents.

After a short hesitation, out of consideration to make up for the loss, I came up with a compromise solution.

Old Bob's voice sounded full of anger, and said: "Marilyn, you go and ask the little guy named Mason Han, and say that we can give all the technology licenses, but we don't plan to sell the whole project, and the price will be decided after we have discussed it, you first try to see if he agrees, so as not to waste time." Don't say no, I'll have to discuss this with the chairman. ”

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At the behest of the big boss, Ms. Marilyn Turner asked her assistant to get Han Chudong back.

When it was over from her mouth, Han Chudong's eyebrows raised slightly, thinking that there was really a pie in the sky that was a good thing, and he didn't mention the technology authorization, but the other party was willing to open all the technology patents first......