Most companies have relied on mergers and acquisitions, such as Oracle, where Larry Ellison acquired more than 100 companies for $50 billion in a decade, and then achieved a market value of $200 billion. In order to open up new markets and better combat opponents, Zhou Shi of course wanted to acquire a food delivery company, and initially selected GrubHub, the future leader of the US food delivery market that was established for 7 years.

But the current focus is definitely on Yahoo, Zhou Shi is busy recruiting high-level technical elites and talents from Microsoft and IBM, Google and other companies these days, and one thing is the open computing project that has been delayed due to the merger of Facebook and Friendster. Over time, F&F, Yahoo, Amazon and other companies have taken the initiative, and Microsoft, Google, IBM and other large companies have also joined in to form a non-profit open source hardware organization. Its mission is to enable scalable computing by providing efficient server, storage, and data center hardware designs to reduce the environmental impact of data centers. That is, an effort to save money, after all, even using a large number of cheap general-purpose servers can be extremely wasteful. It was also necessary to design your own energy-efficient servers and develop new solutions to improve the energy and cooling efficiency of your data center. To put it bluntly, today's servers are too expensive for large enterprises, many functions are not available, and they consume too much power, which is not cost-effective. Many companies tend to customize the generation, and it can barely be said that it is ODM (Original Design Manufacturer).

For large international companies like Google and Facebook, infrastructure construction is a very complex project, and even Ali and Penguin in China are very strong in this regard. Many people say that the failure of Mi Chat is due to the huge number of QQ users, which led to WeChat quickly surpassing Mi Talk. It can't be said that it's all wrong, at least not, the reason for the failure of Mi Talk is their backward service capabilities, after more than 10 million users, Mi Talk began to go down, and the service was extremely unstable, and WeChat at this time has always been as stable as a dog. Lei Jun, who does not have the ability to operate in this area, saw the rapid development under the diversion, and soon lost confidence, or because of the problem of ability, he could not see the future of this software, and only regarded it as a tool software application, and then chose to give up!

Yahoo has billions of accounts (Yahoo's leak in 2014 involved 3 billion accounts), and although it is not a real-name system, a person may have multiple accounts and may have fewer actual uses, but it is also one of the most used Internet services in the world, if Yahoo! Message can really replace Facebook Message, then there will be more than a billion users, and it is not a simple matter to serve more than one billion users around the world to ask for the infrastructure involved. It's much more difficult than Penguin, which focuses on the domestic Internet!

Zhou Shi has been handing out money since he entered Yahoo, not only for new projects and new businesses, but also for security protection and infrastructure construction, many of which are things that cannot be effective for the time being, and this tendency to funds will obviously affect the transfer of power within the enterprise. For professional managers, short-term benefits are much more important than focusing on long-term benefits. Only managers who are as secure as dogs have the courage to focus on long-term interests rather than immediate gains. For example, Amazon's Bezos insisted on not making a profit for more than ten years and invested money in long-term investment, which is not something that anyone can do. Although Zhou Shi is a major shareholder of Yahoo, he can not have the courage, at least not yet.

Seeing the amazing speed of the development of Time Cloud, Bezos decisively cut off other hardware products except e-readers, including tablet computers, and increased investment in cloud computing. At this time, Amazon had three major businesses that became the world's first, B2C e-commerce, UGC video website and cloud computing. And Amazon's revenue for the whole year is very likely to exceed $50 billion, even if Yelp and LinkedIn are included, Yahoo's revenue will not exceed $10 billion. Although there is a big difference in the profit margins between the two, the gap between the two sides is still obvious. It's hard to imagine how Yahoo will compete with Amazon in a few years to be the first company in the world to reach a trillion-dollar market cap. Apple doesn't have to worry about it, with the suppression of the husk, Apple basically has no hope of reaching a trillion-dollar market capitalization. As for Microsoft and Google, they also have this potential, but Google does not have YouTube, Google Android has no success in the past life, in the mobile Internet market, Google is much worse, presumably it is difficult to have amazing performance in the short term. As for Microsoft, this stable company really doesn't have much to do for a while. There is basically no product on the market that can replace Microsoft's two trump cards, and the potential of Microsoft in the future cloud computing market is much higher than that of Yahoo. However, Zhou Shi is not without the means to crack down on Microsoft, at least Yahoo's search will not be worse than Microsoft's Bing, coupled with the help of Time Android and Chrome browsers, Zhou Shi has full confidence to surpass Bing and give Google a certain amount of pressure. In the field of artificial intelligence, which has a first-mover advantage, Yahoo also has great hope of becoming one of the kings in this field.

In order to give Yahoo Cloud more advantages, or to make Yahoo, which has fallen behind, develop faster, Zhou Shi decided to take the open source route, join the OpenStack platform, and embrace open source after discussing with some experts. OpenStack is a free software and open source project developed and initiated by NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) and Rackspace, licensed under the Apache license. Among them, Rackspace is the world's third largest cloud computing service company after Amazon and Time Cloud, and the world's leading managed server provider (IDC enterprise).

A large number of servers with Linux system are also the changes that Zhou Shi brought to Yahoo. Time's deepin operating system has also been applied to Yahoo on a large scale. With the power of Yahoo to help deepin progress, at the same time, deepin also gave Yahoo great cooperation, which is equivalent to providing Yahoo with many free services, which can be said to be a mutually beneficial cooperation. In addition to the operating system, even the database software also uses NetSuite's MySQL open source database, of course, Yahoo will definitely have its own improvements, at least the service performance for Yahoo will be much more advanced than MySQL. After all, what Yahoo needs is a global-level distributed database, and although there is no talent and money to learn from Google to develop its own unique database, there are still human and financial resources to improve MySQL.

A solid foundation is the foundation of the company's development, and after half a year of adjustment to the construction of network security and other infrastructure, Yahoo has made great changes, and finally transformed from an online media company to a real technology company.

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