AT& Company T has 120,000 employees, which is a super big customer for Apple!

Tian Shuai continued: "Mr. Carey Occam, don't you mind if I give you a detailed introduction to Apple-ll and its supporting software?"

"Of course you don't mind!" said Kyrie Occam with a smile. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

So, Tian Shuai spent more than 20 minutes explaining the main functions of Apple-ll and the Excel spreadsheet office software developed by Microsoft to Carey Occam in great detail.

Carey Occam is particularly interested in Excel spreadsheets, and with it, AT& Company T will be able to greatly improve office efficiency and save a lot of money!

"Mr. Tian, how do you sell Excel spreadsheets?" asked Kyrie Occam.

Tian Shuai replied: "$200 a copy, currently it can only run on Apple-ll personal computers!"

Kyrie Occam frowned, this is almost a binding sale!

If you want to use Excel, you have to buy Apple-ll.

In the past, Apple-ll was so popular because of a spreadsheet called VisiCalc at the time. Many people had to buy expensive Apple-ll for VisiCalc, which went on to become the world's first and most popular business program on personal computers, and was one of the main catalysts for the rapid development of the PC industry!

There is no doubt that Excel will replace VisiCalc in this life and it will continue to be!

Li Zetian was secretly refreshed next to him!

This is binding and monopoly!

Kyrie Occam thought for a moment and said, "I'll send someone to Apple to investigate, if Apple-ll is indeed as powerful as you say, AT&T Company T is willing to buy a batch. As for saying that Apple wants to put Apple-ll on AT& T store for sale, I'm afraid it's a bit impossible! You know, AT& Company T is a telecommunications company, and if we sell computers in our business hall, it becomes nondescript and has a big impact on the company's brand!!"

The bigger the company, the more important the brand, AT& Company T doesn't want to be small and lose big!

Coca-Cola President Douglas Daft once said, "If Coca-Cola's factories around the world are burned down, as long as the Coca-Cola brand remains, it will leave all the factories in ruins overnight!!"

Yes, brand is very important for a company!!

Since the other party is unwilling, Li Zetian said that it is useless to break the sky.

"Well, Mr. Occam, thank you very much for taking the time to meet with us!" After Tian Shuai finished speaking, he was about to leave, but as soon as he stood up, he suddenly said, "Oh, Mr. Occam, I may have to waste a few minutes of your time, I suddenly thought of something!"

"Tell me, what's the matter?" said Kyrie Occam with a smile.

"Oh, that's right, AT& Company T published an article on the Unix operating system at the ACM last year, and after reading the article, we were quite interested in the Unix operating system and wanted to study it. However, after all, the Unix operating system has intellectual property rights, and Apple cannot use it for free research, so I want to buy a license for the Unix operating system from you. ”

Kyrie Occam was surprised when he heard this!

This is the first company to offer a new door to AT& Company T said it would like to buy a license for the Unix operating system because AT& Company T has not said that it will charge for it, and other companies use the Unix operating system for free.

Tian Shuai saw Kyrie Occam's surprise and couldn't help explaining: "Apple is a company that attaches great importance to intellectual property rights, and believes that infringing on other people's intellectual property rights is unethical, and an unethical company like this will definitely not develop much!"

Kyrie Occam couldn't help but praise: "Apple's corporate culture is truly admirable!!"

After a pause, Kyrie Occam asked, "What kind of license does Apple want?"

"Apple will make significant changes to the Unix operating system to avoid trouble, and we want to buy a perpetual license!"

AT& After hearing this, Kyrie Occam did not have a sense of vigilance at all, first, he did not see the value of the Unix operating system, and second, the company had already made the source code public and did not plan to charge for it, so he felt that the permanent license of the Unix operating system was no big deal...... Of course, the authorization is only for the current version. AT& T's Unix operating system will continue to be updated, and Kyrie Occam is not stupid enough to license all future Unix operating systems to Apple, but it is enough for Apple, which has its own development team and will continue to develop on this version. When AT& When Company T realizes the value of the Unix operating system and goes into a lawsuit with another company, Apple can stay out of the way!

"Okay, no problem!" said Kyrie Occam.

Tian Shuai was overjoyed, his face was impassive, and he deliberately said a low price: "Mr. Occam, do you think 30,000 US dollars is okay?"

The low price means that Apple does not attach much importance to Unix, if it comes to say a high price, it will cause the other party to be suspicious, if AT& If Company T is not satisfied, it will increase the price.

Kyrie Occam happily agreed, $30,000 is not much, but it is a lot of money. Unix was originally free, and it could be sold for $30,000, which is considered to be picked up. In addition, AT& T is still worried about the Excel spreadsheet, and simply sells Apple a good favor.

An agreement was reached between the two parties, and soon a perpetual license for the Unix operating system was signed.

"Mr. Kyrie Occam, we're leaving!!" Tian Shuai said happily as he left, "Oh, by the way, may I ask AT&!" When will Company T send a representative to Apple?"

Kyrie Occam thought for a moment and said, "About a week later, AT&G Company T will send someone over!"

"Okay, we'll show the full functionality of Apple-ll to your company's representatives and welcome them to come!"

After Tian Shuai finished speaking, he left AT& Li Zetian together. T Corporation.

Li Zetian said with a smile on the road: "This time I came to AT& Company T still has a lot of gains, not only got the Unix operating system license, but also with AT& It's a pity that our Apple-ll personal computers can't be used on AT&00 T store sales, otherwise, we will make a fortune!!"

Tian Shuai said with a smile: "But this is already very good! If we can cooperate with Sears, it is actually no better than in AT& Next Monday, I made an appointment to meet with the CEO of Sears, who is very interested in our company's Apple-ll, and I think my conversation with him will be very pleasant!!"

Li Zetian nodded in agreement, Sears is the United States, but also the world's largest private retail enterprises, with more than 300,000 employees, only printed in the catalog of chain stores there are more than 1,600, in addition to more than 800 supply contract providers, its subsidiaries are all over the major cities in Europe and the United States, in the Western business community enjoys the reputation of "retail academy of science"!

In the more than 100 years of Sears company's development history, since the early 20th century, it has occupied the first position in the United States retail industry, Wal-Mart is far behind it, until the early 90s of the 20th century, Wal-Mart started with discount stores to surpass Sears.

"Tian Shuai, I think you can also meet Mr. Walton of Wal-Mart!"

"It's Walmart with a cheap store?"

"Yes, it's this company, I'm more optimistic about the development prospects of this company, if I can, Apple would better be able to take a stake in Walmart and become one of the shareholders of the company!"

With a stake in Walmart and an alliance, Apple will have one more product sales channel from now on!

As for how powerful Walmart is, there is no need to say more!!

PS: Brothers, I hope for your support!!