The plane from Yuncheng to the capital is an old-fashioned Boeing 737, with a row of six seats, the space is very compact, there is no business class, fortunately, there are not many passengers, there are many vacant seats, Du Qiu and Brad Silverberg are both relatively tall people, after the two sat together, the people who traveled with them were very interested in finding another seat. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

If you take a train, it takes more than ten hours to get from Yuncheng to the capital, but it only takes about 2 hours by plane, and during this 2-hour journey, Du Qiu has been chatting with Silverberg, but the content has little to do with the browser, but is talking about another epoch-making new technology in 1995, that is, Java, the reason why we talk about Java is because it was the biggest trouble that Microsoft encountered in the mid-to-late 90s, and it almost killed Microsoft.

In 2016, even ordinary people who are not engaged in the IT industry know that Java is a popular programming language that can be compared to C/C++, and it is easy to find a job after learning it, but in fact, when Sun released Java in 1995, it was not just a programming language, but a magic weapon that could challenge Microsoft.

If a computer is compared to a house, the CPU, memory, graphics card and other hardware are bricks, sand, steel bars and other building materials, the operating system is equivalent to an adobe house, and the application software is equivalent to a sofa, cabinet, Refrigerators and other daily necessities, if you want to change places or change houses to live, you need to move things out one by one, as we all know, moving is a very troublesome thing, which will have all kinds of problems, so whether it is a software company or ordinary users, once they get used to a certain operating system, they are rarely willing to convert.

Java put forward a new concept of software development, that is, virtual machine, virtual machine is equivalent to an RV, all daily necessities are loaded in the car, free from the shackles of the foundation and walls, if you want to move, you can change places, you can change places, write at a time, run everywhere, in this way, software companies do not need to consider the problem of operating system when developing products, and ordinary users do not need to consider the problem of operating system when purchasing products, which is a disaster for Microsoft.

"Sun's Solaris operating system, Novell's NOS operating system, Apple's Mac-OS, the common dilemma of these three operating systems is the lack of sufficient application software support, if Java is developed, the dilemma will no longer exist, they will definitely erode Microsoft's market, and even more operating system companies will appear in the future, Mr. Silverberg, I understand this right?"

The English name of Sun comes from the abbreviation of "stanford-university-work", which means Stanford University campus network, and the Chinese name is Sun Computer Systems, which is an IT industry giant in the mid-to-late 90s alongside Microsoft, Cisco and Oracle, with a market value of more than $200 billion at its peak in 2000, better than Alibaba, China's largest Internet company in 2016.

The Solaris operating system is a derivative of UNIX and dominates the commodity server market, with much more power and performance than Microsoft's Windows-NT When Microsoft acquired Hotmail in 1997, it wanted to migrate its mail servers from Solaris and FreeBSD to its own Windows-NT, but it failed, but Microsoft had to do it, otherwise Windows-NT would have become a joke, and it was tossed for several years until the release of Windows 2000, and even so, some of the features still had to be implemented by Unix.

Novell is a company specializing in network operating systems, occupies a dominant position in the field, with a market share of more than 70%, the NOS operating system they developed can be compatible with DOS, and the turnover is equivalent to about 40% of Microsoft's, and in 1994, it also acquired the once brilliant word processing software wordperfect, showing the intention of entering the office software market and competing with Office, so it is also regarded as a strong enemy by Microsoft.

As for Apple and their Mac-OS, in 1995, they were the last to survive and not worth mentioning, but the brand appeal is not weak, and it is still very marketable in some professional fields, and it is an opponent that can be despised but cannot be ignored.

"Mr. Du, you are in a closed China, but you have a global vision and a good understanding of the American software market, which is very rare. Silverberg agreed with Du Qiu's judgment and said: "Bill recognized the threat of Java as soon as it was released, and specially convened a high-level meeting to study the solution. ”

"With the Internet, there's not much difference between China and the United States. Du Qiu looked out the window and saw that he could already faintly see the airport, so he asked, "How are you going to solve it?" Do you join Java and turn the enemy into a friend, or do you create a new language and fight the enemy to the end?"

Pre-Java programming languages, such as C/C++, are directly released, let the programmer toss and improve, and so the improvement is almost, and then set up a working group or committee or other organization, standardize it, although this spreads quickly, but it will lead to fragmentation, serious compatibility problems, and the public welfare standardization organization is very inefficient, often pull each other, and even several years can not solve a small problem, so Sun company when releasing Java, take a middle line approach, that is, to issue licenses to the industry on a large scale, allowing these companies with licenses to improve Java, but the improvement must be checked and approved by Sun company。

Sun's approach is similar to the CDDL open source license used by the iView browser, which is to use others to strengthen itself, but Sun is different from Snapdragon, it is a large company with a market value of more than 10 billion US dollars, and Microsoft can't buy it, so there are only two options, either join it and destroy it from the inside, or start from scratch and die from the outside.

At this time, a flight attendant came to remind him to fasten the full belt, and Silverberg didn't talk about it anymore, but said: "We haven't decided how to solve it, but if Mr. Du is willing to come to Microsoft to work, I think Bill will definitely be very welcome, if you like to stay in China, you don't have to go to the United States to work, we will set up a special working group in your hometown." ”

"Mr. Silverberg, if you would like to work for Snapdragon, I will also set up a dedicated working group for you in the United States. ”

Silver Berg laughed and politely replied, "There will be a chance, there will be a chance." ”

"I'm looking forward to it. ”

I am really looking forward to it, because Du Qiu was very lazy before the crossing, he was not interested in management at all, and he had no experience, Chen Dayou is a Ph.D. student, and he also has no management experience, and the current Snapdragon is small, and there are less than 10 formal workers, and it is very simple to manage, but if you want to develop into an international giant in the future, you need a super bull like Silverberg to be an assistant.

Of course, with Snapdragon's current strength, it will definitely not be able to accommodate this great god, but in the future, everything is possible, and it doesn't hurt to borrow a good fate first.

As for Java, it's just a smoke bomb...... (To be continued.) )