Chapter 27: IBM Mainframe

Just when Larry and Segail were greatly admired for what Mavi had done. A bespectacled network engineer from the company came to Larry and the two of them.

"What's the matter? Martin?" asked Larry, seeing that he was in trouble, to the man.

Hearing the president's question, Martin couldn't help but hold his glasses, and then whispered to the three of them, "That's right, President Larry, Chairman Mavi, and President Segail." I just went to the computer room and found that there were no servers inside. ”

"No servers?" said Larry and Segail, both surprised and panicked.

The two of them have no worse knowledge of servers than network engineer Martin. The corporate website operates 24 hours a day, and the response speed when customers log in to the website, huge database, documents, and computing processing...... All of this is inseparable from the support of the server.

To put it bluntly, if a company's servers are too backward, the website will not be useful no matter how large it grows. After all, it has a limited carrying capacity.

Hearing that there was a lack of servers in the company's computer room, the 23 company backbones who had been visiting everywhere couldn't help but gather around Ma Wei and the four of them. I want to hear from the company's senior management, what is the best solution, is it that the server has been stolen or something.

Ma Wei, who was standing in the middle of the crowd, had long known that there was a lack of servers. So he said bluntly to everyone, "Excite's x86 architecture server was auctioned off by the court to another Internet company. ”

"Ah??? why is it so unlucky......"

"yes, it's really unfortunate, so unlucky!"

After the employees learned the truth, they sighed that this luck was really bad. If there is an x86 architecture server as a support, then the performance of their Google search engine will be improved several times! The responsiveness will be much better than before!

Just as the employees were sighing like this, I saw Ma Wei, who was standing in the middle of the crowd, suddenly said to everyone, "Actually, there is nothing bad to do, because ......"

Halfway through his sentence, Mavi stopped talking. Hearing Larry and Segail, who were standing next to him, and the 24 employees around him, couldn't figure out what he was doing.

However, at this moment, a pure white enclosed truck swaggered in front of the company. Then, several Russian men in black suits were trained to prop up the unloading pallet. Then, in front of everyone, the black chassis in the carriage was smoothly unloaded.

I only saw that the black chassis that was removed was very huge, and it needed to be carried by four strong Russian men before it could be safely transported onto the pallet truck.

When the black-clothed bodyguards sent the black host into the company safely. I saw Martin, a very knowledgeable network engineer, suddenly screamed and reached out to hold his head and said, "That's! IBM mainframe! Oh my God!"

With his strange screams, Larry, Segail and others also saw the "true face of Lushan" of the black host. That is the most powerful super server "IBM mainframe" in the world today!

The price of each "IBM mainframe" is as high as more than $3 million! What x86 server, what UNIX server, in front of the mainframe, the performance is like scum, it is simply weak! Even if it is an X86 server cluster, it is difficult to compensate for the gap in performance and maintenance.

After all, the "IBM mainframe" only needs to maintain one. The number of x86 server clusters is too large and difficult to maintain.

President Larry and Sergeil and others, looking at the bodyguards in amazement, transported the mainframe to everyone. Only its black chassis was seen, which was taller than some of the employees present. The wide black fuselage is almost three meters long.

"Even buy karma... The boss actually spent so much money to equip us with a mainframe! The price of this host is almost worth 6 times the market value of our company, right......" A fair-skinned female employee quietly discussed with her colleagues.

"It's not it! It's scary! The new boss is amazing, this is really powerful!" the companion whispered in response.

……

The content of the whispers of the crowd is also what Larry and Segail think. Ma Wei's move is really too powerful and bold! The acquisition of this new company, plus the investment in IBM's mainframe, will be at least 10 million US dollars!

The two worked hard at the beginning, and it took a year and a half to start a business, and it took them to develop the company to a market value of $600,000. And Ma Wei's casual hand is at the level of tens of millions of dollars. It really made the two of them out of reach and daunted......

Almost everyone present was amazed by Ma Wei's generosity.

Ma Wei, who was in the center of the field, said to everyone lightly, "The hardware and office environment are now in place." As you can see, I think this was originally the office of Excite. Before the dot-com bubble crisis, Excite's market value was once speculated by capitalists to $7.2 billion. As for Google, we only have a pitiful $600,000. ”

"With such a huge disparity, one is 7.2 billion and the other is 600,000, can anyone tell me how many times the difference between the two is?" However, the resources on the software, such as the future development direction of the company and the beliefs of each employee, need to be led by him, which is what the boss calls "boosting morale", which can also be called "brainwashing".

"Chairman Ma Wei, about 12,000 times worse. Martin, a network engineer, replied quickly.

"That's right, almost 12,000 times worse. Internet companies that were in the ascendant at the beginning have now got such a field, so where is our future?"

Ma Wei's question can be said to be the key to asking. Most of the employees present, even the two presidents, Larry and Segail, did not think much about the future. I only know that everyone is working on the Internet, so I also invested in it. As for the future development, I really haven't thought about it, and I can't think about it clearly.

Seeing that everyone did not answer for a long time, Ma Wei patiently said to everyone with the experience of the future, "Here, I can clearly tell you that the future of Google is in a year or two! When the world's developed countries have universal computers and network coverage, there will be tens of millions, hundreds of millions of users, using our search engine!"

"When the time comes, it will be digital, and the information age will ......" Ma Wei's eloquent talk made Larry and Segail and others who were standing in front of him suddenly have a feeling of gradual enlightenment. It's as if the original vague consciousness was suddenly lit up and cleared......

"Wait for the Internet era to really come. At that time, technology will be so advanced and convenient that hundreds of millions of families will have desktop computers and laptops. ”