With no shortage of people and money, it took so many people nearly four months to develop an instant messaging program, which is not fast.

With so many software programmers working together, the effect is not necessarily better than that of a genius, the advantage is that the foundation is solid, the initial version was developed in early March, and now it has been changed, almost stabilized, and it is ready for sale to netizens.

The technology of downloading programs directly from the network has not yet been realized, and the same as CNC clients, you need to copy floppy disks to other computers to use, and now they are all installing programs like this, a Microsoft desktop operating system needs to use several floppy disks to install, no way, technology has only developed to this point, and it has been much better than in previous years.

As long as the program is good and no one is worried about installing and using it, the Internet in 1989 is like a draft, far from a spectacular picture of thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, and there is so much fun to find on the Internet, it can be expected that this instant chat software named "Bee" will be very popular after its launch, the reason is - there are no competitors.

There may be people developing similar products, but at least it hasn't been released yet, and Su Mu himself doesn't know how his future self made terrifying wealth, and the road has to be taken step by step.

It's different now, the idea at that time is different from now, it has embarked on another fork in the road, no one knows where it can go in the future, maybe he made a stupid decision and directly put the company into bankruptcy, just like the movie "Terminator", the difference is that Su Mu changed himself and his fate was quietly rewritten.

Firefly company has become history, Galaxy is the name of this company, Galaxy Network, it sounds domineering, but employees always say that no fireflies sound kind, Su Mu will tell them the reason for the name change, and only say that the previous one was not imposing.

James has grown a beard, he is already very handsome, and he is even more masculine when he grows a beard, and he recently fell in love with a certain operator girl in the company, no longer as unsmiling as before, and came to Su Mu and asked: "Try it?" Do you think you can, then it can be sold to the public, and many employees plan to copy a copy to take home, thank you for your generosity and selflessness. ”

The reason for this last sentence is that, like Spider's email, the instant chat software called Bee (Bee) was also promoted for free in the early days, and in this era when others are trying their best to make money, Sumu is undoubtedly a clear stream in Silicon Valley, and Galaxy Network Company does not see revenue, only money continues to decrease from the company's account.

There are more than 400 people in the entire company, and the average annual salary of each person is about 70,000 US dollars, which means that the personnel expenses alone will probably cost 30 million US dollars this year, not to mention the high expenses such as setting up servers, just for CNC, more than 8 million US dollars will be paid to Oracle, which will not bring profits in the short term.

The concept of "free Internet economics" has long appeared, which mainly refers to the transfer of the cost of free goods to another commodity or follow-up service, knowing is one thing, whether it can succeed is another thing, Su Mu has no bottom in his heart, and other employees, including James, are even more bottomless.

It's ridiculous to say, once the instant messaging software comes out, the first to face the impact is the spider mailbox, Su Mu has even recently considered agreeing to Microsoft, selling the spider mailbox to Microsoft for 70 million US dollars, and then considering that the future can be combined with email and communication and browsers, this is the impulse.

Ignoring James's schadenfreude, the money from the sale of Qugou shares will only arrive at the end of this month, and Sumu's cash flow is about to bottom out, thanks to Penguin's quarterly dividend support, with Blake's decision to reduce dividends for development, there is not much money in the middle of the year.

Looking around their own industry, except for Penguin, there is no second company to make money, a headache is a headache, there is a cash flow from the sale of fun purchase shares, to support the development of the Galaxy network for five years is no problem, before that should be able to make one or several Internet companies listed for financing, borrowing investors' funds for development.

Su Mu sighed and said: "So many people chat openly during work hours, and they are too lazy, games are difficult to develop, I admit, why can't I even develop a browser now?

Whether it's good or bad is to let the users evaluate it after all, I don't expect to succeed at one time, but we must definitely know what the users think, what they think is bad, we will slowly improve, the last time I chatted with Gates, he mentioned that the number of users in the future is king, don't care if you make money now, and when there are more users who use our products in the future, you can always come up with a way to make money. ”

James first met Su Mu, but the CEO of Galaxy Network was not him, this position was hanging for four months, and I heard that Su Mu recently poached someone from other companies and was about to become the CEO of Galaxy.

Inevitably, he was a little disappointed, but James knew he was capable of managing more than enough programmers, but he didn't think it was enough to manage a company with hundreds of employees and lead the company to compete with countless companies in Silicon Valley.

"They're also working, helping to find loopholes, who gives good advice, one can get a reward of two hundred dollars, from the morning to now we have adopted sixteen, will consider improving Bee in the later stage, just now you are not there, I gave a reward privately, in case you don't agree, then I can only reward them out of my own pocket."

As for the browser, it is likely to be completed in another ten days, web crawler technology and search engine technology are not difficult, how to make them cooperate with the server is the problem, the server memory capacity is not enough, and you have to partner with Oracle, this time the expenditure is much larger than CNC, almost 13 million is needed, in fact, it is easy to do it at the beginning, but I think it is better to do it in one step, and the data has been placed on the table in your office. ”

"This is all forcing me, there are disadvantages of having money, you waste it and don't know how to save it for me, don't those who only have thousands or tens of thousands of dollars on them not start a business?"

Su Mu heard that James opened his mouth to be thirteen million, the corners of his mouth twitched in distress, and he asked: "It's just developed, how can you need such an advanced server, can't you use the CNC upstairs first?"

"It should be possible. ”

"That's not it, you have to know that you have to save money for me, technology is developing so fast, it's a waste to buy it now, and it will be eliminated soon, I'll go to the office downstairs first and give me a copy of the chat software."

Also, help me call Mr. Kurno, the person in charge of the online game project, and I came up with a very interesting idea that is suitable for developing into a game. ”

James was slightly helpless, the game development team had the largest number of people, more than 170 people, responsible for the development of eight mini-games, and there were no large-scale online games in this era, all of which were stand-alone mini-games.

There were already so many, and one more seemed to be fine, and replied to him: "I'll go and help you find him now, and I'll copy it for you later......"

In the IM project development team, several young men seated next to each other invariably showed nervousness today.

Last night, we went to the bar to drink together, I don't know who took the lead, and began to discuss why we can't develop an instant messaging program by ourselves, it is difficult to get through the work for people all their lives, the technical difficulty is not great, and investors can also be found.

In the morning, they discussed it again for a while, and at this moment they made eye contact with each other, and agreed to write a letter of resignation.

The same happened to the browser development team, where last week three resigned in quick succession and formed a new company to start a business.

After half a year of fermentation, the number of resources that have added hypertext links has exceeded 2.7 million, resulting in a group of people pouring in to dig for gold, and various programs have appeared one after another.

The great era of the Internet was kicking off, and when James received the news and saw a few tables with only resignation letters, he sighed softly, knowing that this was just the beginning...... 8)