Snapdragon is now thirsty for talents, Liu Yunlai decided not to go to the United States to investigate, but to help in Cloud City, of course Du Qiu couldn't ask for it, immediately called Jiang Danfeng, asked her to do a good job of reception, and then met with Qin Mu, who only arrived in the capital last night, and took 4 interns who got visas to get on the plane to the United States. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The plan to use Microsoft's prestige has been very successful, and after the news of the $4 million partnership fee and the opportunity to go to the United States for training spread, the outside world has a concrete understanding of Snapdragon's strength and prospects, and the appeal has also risen sharply.

Before reaching a cooperation agreement, Xu Yongrui, Qin Mu and Xiao Wu after three inspections, a total of only 18 interns were recruited, all from Sanjiang University and Yuncheng University, the two second-rate key points, the top Chinese University of Science and Technology did not have one, after reaching a cooperation agreement, Li Jianhua and He Lixing after two inspections, recruited 23 interns, including not only two high-level students from the University of Science and Technology, and even Sanjiang University and Yuncheng University master's and doctorate, the quantity and quality have been greatly improved.

According to the agreement, Microsoft will train employees for Snapdragon for free during the cooperation period, 10 places per quarter, starting from August, this time I brought 4 people over in advance, nominally Du Qiu's assistant, writing browser programs for Microsoft, in fact, for future training to lay the front station.

Among these four people, one is Zhao Hongfei, who was originally recruited by Xiao Wu from Beijing, he is a student of Jingcheng University of Technology, and he has always wanted to work in Silicon Valley, so he has practiced spoken English hard, and his performance during the internship period is also very good, and he has officially signed a contract, and the level directly skips A3, starting from A4, and the future is bright.

The other is Chen Dawei, this guy used to make games with Yuan Tiangang, and he basically didn't do his graduation project, and he didn't write a word in his thesis, so he was busy cleaning up the mess in April and May, and only after the paper was written did he upload some code to the server in the computer room, and at the end of May, he passed Xiao Wu's acceptance and entered Snapdragon as an intern.

Chen Dawei has a good family background, he learned English from his father who returned from studying abroad since he was a child, and he also accompanied his mother who was a businessman to travel to the United States, and he is very fluent in English, and he learned programming with Du Qiu after the Spring Festival, two or three months earlier than others, and his level has improved very quickly, so although he entered Snapdragon very late, he stood out and became one of the best interns.

The remaining two are interns recruited by Li Jianhua last week, one is a student of China University of Technology, called Han Yong, he originally studied applied mathematics, computer technology is self-taught, more than 50% of the graduates of the University of Technology can get the opportunity to study abroad every year, so students generally attach great importance to English, Han Yong is no exception, he originally got a scholarship from a university in the United States, but he didn't like the school, so he didn't go, but chose to stay in school for graduate school, and now he plans to go to graduate school and work directly.

The last one is called Zhang Dongliang, a fresh graduate of Sanjiang University, he belongs to the type of general in the sting, most of the interns have poor English, and the remaining half of them have a lot of graduation theses that have not been written, after two screenings, Zhang Dongliang was selected in a daze, his computer level is very average, but because his parents are working in foreign-related units, his English is very good.

On the afternoon of June 8, local time in the United States, after more than a dozen hours of flight and then after a transfer toss, Du Qiu and his party finally arrived in Seattle.

It was not a Microsoft employee who picked up the airport at the airport, but Xu Yongrui, who came to the United States with Chen Dayou a few days ago, because Netscape, which has not been interested in developing HTML standards, suddenly became enthusiastic about this work, and invited Snapdragon to set up a joint working group to negotiate how to standardize the HTML language.

"How's it going these days?"

"There is no progress, and it is ripped off every day, which can be called the Internet version of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Xu Yongrui hired an eight-seater MPV with a driver to take the group to a hotel near Microsoft's headquarters, and said on the way: " Netscape means to put aside Microsoft, the two of us are engaged in HTML language standards alone, Microsoft does not agree, must participate, but they do not have a browser at present, so they took out the draft of the IETF working group, and united several other small browser companies, stating that they want to engage in open unified standards, and the quarrel these days is all trivial things, and no one mentions the standard itself. ”

IETF is the abbreviation of Internet Engineering Task Force, which is responsible for developing and promoting the development of Internet standards, which is claimed to be more efficient than the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). Open-minded and open-minded, but in fact it is more inefficient than these two notoriously bureaucratic organizations, in 1991 Tim Berners-Lee invented the HTML language, and in 1993 the IETF published the first draft standard, which was very rough and did not become a standard and was not accepted by the industry, so several RFPs were issued in a row to fix it, from 1993 to 1995, and it is still being tinkered.

HTML didn't even have a basic standard yet, and the IETF made a competitive HTML+ in 1994, and HTML+ was also unpopular, so they combined the two, intending to skip 2.0, and made a draft in April 1995, which was a hodgepodge, and was silent after it was released, without any sense of existence.

In the original time and space, Netscape and Microsoft didn't care about any standards at all, and each engaged in a bunch of functions that only their own browsers supported, competing with each other, cutting off the Internet experience, so the most eye-catching on the homepage of many websites at that time was not advertising, but "use Scape to get the best effect" and "Use IE to get the best effect" and other prompts, until 1998 Microsoft defeated Netscape, IE dominated the browser market, and the W3C organization gradually became the standard of the Internet.

Unexpectedly, Microsoft, a big tyrant with a lot of money, actually learned from the people in the market to play spill and took it out as a disguise......

"What do you think about that?"

"Netscape doesn't really want to work with us to develop HTML language standards, but wants to sow discord and stir up the cooperation between Snapdragon and Microsoft. Xu Yongrui's brain is very flexible, and analyzed: "Microsoft doesn't pay much attention to the browser itself, but it doesn't mean that they don't pay attention to Internet standards. ”

"Sowing discord is one thing, and on the other hand, I guess they're bluffing. Netscape's reaction was expected by Du Qiu, and he casually asked, "Netscape should be listed on NASDAQ before the release of window95, right?"

"Yes, it is said to be scheduled for early August, two weeks before the release of Windows 95. ”

"There is not much time left before the IPO and they have to show that they are in a dominant position in the market and that they are in control of everything, so that investors can rest assured and push up the stock price. ”

"It's their business to go public, what are you dragging us into the water?" Chen Dawei was relatively simple, and interjected a little unhappily: "Just ignore them, we are cooperating with Microsoft, not with them." ”

"The Internet is a new industry, just like the PC industry in the early '80s. Du Qiu smiled and explained: " When Apple first invented the PC, some people were optimistic, some people were skeptical, but when Apple was successfully listed, there was a successful precedent, the doubt disappeared immediately, and the whole market prospered at a very fast speed, the market is like a pond, the bigger the pond, the bigger the fish in it, Netscape is equivalent to Apple, it is a benchmark company, if the listing is successful, it will definitely attract a lot of investment into the Internet industry, so that the industry will prosper, and we can also benefit at that time, so we should help them. ”

"How can I help?"

"Help them stall. Du Qiu didn't hide the friendship between him and Chen Dawei, patted him on the shoulder, and asked with a smile: "Dawei, do you know what your third brother's biggest headache is now?"

"What?"

"Product fragmentation brought about by open source. Du Qiu raised a few fingers and said: "In addition to the official release of 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2, there are more than a dozen different platforms and different versions of variants, all of which are not controlled by Snapdragon, cannot integrate the iCard homepage, and cannot bring revenue." ”

Xu Yongrui has been in Silicon Valley a few days ago, knows the inside story, and said: "Mr. Chen is really headache about this, iView browser currently has a total of about 1 million users, but version 1.3 users are only about 200,000, so last month only received less than 100,000 US dollars in advertising fees, if all these 1 million are built-in icard homepage, the monthly income will be at least more than 400,000 US dollars." ”

"Product fragmentation is a chronic problem of open source software, but it is not impossible to solve. Du Qiu sat up straight, and said lightly: "If I didn't want to help Netscape, when I first released the iView browser, I would use a combination of closed-source and open-source, only the closed-source version is provided on the homepage, and the open-source version is placed in the forum or newsgroup, ordinary users don't care about open source, only care about free, so I will definitely download the latest official version on the homepage, so that product fragmentation can be avoided to the greatest extent." ”

"Mr. Du, you want to get away with it. Qin Mu understood in seconds, and praised it: "The iView browser is open source and free, and it is seriously fragmented, and it does not have the ability to challenge Netscape in the eyes of the outside world, and it will not affect their listing, and after they are listed, we will suddenly exert our strength to knock it down on the altar and replace it, and then Snapdragon will be majestic." ”

"Brother Qiu, you are so insidious!"

Zhao Hongfei patted his ass and said: "Mr. Du is not insidious, he has a view of the overall situation, and you are still very tender, learn more." ”

Han Yong, who was sitting at the back, was newly recruited into Snapdragon, and had never gotten along with Du Qiu, seeing that everyone in the car had a natural expression on their faces, thinking that this was a genius-like good plan, a little unbelievable, thinking that they were all crazy, and after hesitating for a moment, he reminded: "Netscape is not a small company in the first place, if it goes public, its strength will definitely be stronger, how can we compete with them?"

"Netscape and Microsoft are fighting each other, and there will be an injury, so we can just sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight. Zhao Hongfei was one of the earliest interns, and he had been brainwashed by Du Qiu's theory, so he waved his hand indifferently and said, "Xu Tou, the idesign you made is specially prepared for killing tigers, right?"

Xu Yongrui pushed his glasses with a smile, neither admitting nor denying it.

"When you come to the United States this time, don't just focus on technology, Microsoft has a lot to learn, especially in management, you have to look at it and ask more questions. Du Qiu gently let go of this topic, reminded them a few times, and then said to Chen Dawei: "Forget it, concentrate on learning technology, don't worry about anything else." ”

"I know. Chen Dawei didn't feel coldly treated, but was a little proud, and said with a smile: "Brother Qiu, don't worry, I'm not good at other levels, and my ability to steal teachers and learn art is still good." (To be continued.) )