If the PC software market is compared to a game of chess, the operating system is equivalent to "handsome", and the office software is equivalent to the "car", which is the most powerful tool for charging into battle, indispensable, although Qin Mu's work does not involve the operating system itself, but it is extremely important, so Du Qiu not only gave him 10 recruitment places, but also arranged Li Jianhua and Xu Yongrui to assist. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

After arranging the development plan of the PC market, Du Qiu began to talk about the server market, saying: "Just like Xiao Wu predicted, with the development of the Internet, there will inevitably be more and more small and medium-sized enterprises to build their own websites, and there must be servers to build websites, and the servers must have three things: operating system, web server software and database software. ”

He drew a red line in the circle with the word server written, painted one side red, wrote the name of Linux, and said: "The commercial operating systems of big companies such as IBM, Sun, and Microsoft have no competition with us, and the only thing we need to compete with is Linux......"

Xiao Wu raised his hand and reminded, "There is also fellow senior brother freebsd." ”

"FreeBSD is not a competitor, but an ally, because the BSD license is much less lenient than the GPL license used by Linux, and we can take the code directly from them and use it. Du Qiu smiled and made an analogy, and said: "We are now equivalent to Liu Bei during the Battle of Chibi, they are Sun Quan, although the family background is not rich, but if you hold a group, you can still compete with Linux." ”

Xiao Wu thought about it too, pursed his lips and smiled, and motioned for him to continue.

"There is a scientific research institute in the United States, called NCSA, the full name is the National Supercomputer Application Center, and in 1993 developed a browser called MASIC, which everyone is familiar with, and later evolved into Netscape. In fact, in addition to MASIC, they also developed a web server software called NCSA-HTTPD, which is free and open source software, which is very popular on the Internet, and when I left the United States, there was a research and development group based on this and released a web server software that runs on Linux, called Apache. ”

Du Qiu wrote the name of Apache on the whiteboard and said, "If my prediction is correct, this will be a killer application software that can greatly promote the development and growth of Linux." ”

This is a fact, Linux was just a toy in the hands of hackers before 1.0, in 1993 there were only about 20,000 users, in 1994 after the release of 1.0 began to develop towards commercial applications, but because of the lack of killer application software, has not been discouraged, until April 1995 Apache appeared, Apache swept the world in just one year, becoming the web server software with the highest market share, boosting the explosive growth of Linux users, from 20,000 to 500,000, in one fell swoop to establish the position of the leader of the open source operating system.

In order to emphasize, Du Qiu deliberately drew several circles on Apache with a pen, and warned: "Everyone must remember that the business rules of the Internet era are winner-takes-all, and for open source operating systems, there is only one way to win, that is, to form a scale as soon as possible, gather the most programmers and vendors, and form a benign ecosystem, so if we want to make a difference, we must have our own web server software and database software as soon as possible, so as to have the capital to compete with Linux." ”

He Lixing, who hasn't spoken much, said: "Since this Apache is open source, we can port it to BSD. ”

"We don't have to do this ourselves, someone will port it soon, and we can use it directly, so the key is not in Apache, but in the database software. Du Qiu pointed at Xiao Wu as he asked Qin Mu just now, and asked, "Give you half a year to make this database, how many people do you need?"

"If Mr. Du participates in the development, I only need 3 people, if I don't participate, I want at least 10 people, and I don't want inexperienced fresh graduates. ”

"I will participate in the whole process, give you 8 recruitment places, only recruit fresh graduates, reserve talents for the future, and the salary standard is the same as Qin Mu's. ”

After two months of email communication, Xiao Wu knew very well that Du Qiu was better than himself in terms of databases, and he was very excited when he heard this, picked up his coffee cup, made a toast through the monitor, and said, "Mr. Du, I wish us a happy cooperation." ”

Du Qiu responded to her with a gesture of salutation, and then drew a circle on the three letters of BSD with a pen, and assigned the last thing: "He Gong, the work of integrating 4.4BSD and FreeBSD will be handed over to you." ”

When recruiting, Chen Dayou asked Du Qiu what level his friends were, Du Qiu said that they have first-class talent, but there is no first-class opportunity, so they are all ruined, this is not a lie, in the late 80s and early 90s, the domestic IT industry was almost poor, from education to business, from system to culture, all of them were not formed, Qin Mu and others did not lack talent, nor lack of diligence, if they were raised in the sea, they would become whales, but stay in small ponds, and eventually could only be a crucian carp.

However, this evaluation is not suitable for He Lixing, because after he finished his master's degree in the United States, he worked there for two years, and only returned to China in 1994 for family reasons, and his skills and vision are not bad, and he is the highest level among the five people, he nodded and said: "I know two friends who have participated in the development of FreeBSD, and I can recruit them." ”

"Yes. ”

"One of them is an American, and the other is an international student studying in Canada. He Lixing scratched his hair a little crampedly and said: "Americans' salary requirements may be relatively high, and international students will not be able to return to China until August." ”

Du Qiu was reluctant to destroy the company's salary structure, and said: "You contact and ask first, if that American friend is willing to come to China, he will give him the same salary as you, if he is not willing to come, forget it, the same is true for international students, it is not a problem to come back in August, we have to do this project for a long time." ”

"I'll send an email to ask. ”

After Du Qiu divided everyone's work, he handed the pen to Jiang Danfeng and said, "I'll give you a week to prepare, and report to Yuncheng before May 4, Qin Mu and Xiao Wu have recruitment tasks, which can be postponed for a week." Is there a problem?"

When he signed the contract, he explained that his future work location would be in Yuncheng, and except for Li Jianhua, who was married and had children, the rest were not married, and they had already arranged to leave Beijing in the past two months, so they all said that there was no problem.

Jiang Danfeng was probably born insulated from computers, she was the first person in this time and space to contact the four open source articles, but she never understood the business model, seeing that Du Qiu finished speaking, she took a bottle of pure water to him and asked: "Mr. Du, you can make money by advertising as a browser, and what do you make money by making a server?"

"Just because the product is free doesn't mean the service is free. Du Qiu raised the plastic bottle in his hand and explained: "Water in nature is free, some people have the strength to dig their own wells to carry water to drink, some people have the money to pay the water bill to buy tap water to drink, some people are extravagant and go to the supermarket to buy bottled mineral water to drink, we can be a pure water businessman, specializing in providing high-end services for enterprises, such as customized products, technical support and staff training." ”

Zhou Yuan also took a bottle of pure water from the cardboard box, and complimented him with a smile: "Mr. Du's analogy is good, I used to talk to those reporters Kan Dashan, and I couldn't explain the company's profit model clearly, and I can finally explain it clearly in the future." ”

"Service makes a lot of money?"

Xu Yongrui seemed to be very interested in Jiang Danfeng, pretending to look at the potted plants on the balcony, his eyes rolled on her face, and then asked loudly: "Xiao Wu, you used to work in a bank, do you know how much money the bank has to pay every year to IBM or Oracle for technical support?"

Xiao Wu, who was typing on the screen, didn't say how much, but revealed an order of magnitude: "Astronomical, at least in millions of dollars, the specific amount depends on business needs." ”

This number is shocking enough, Jiang Danfeng finally understands how to make money, but she still doesn't understand why open source, she looked at the letters on the whiteboard, and asked: "Since that Apache can be ported from Linux to BSD, after we make the database open source, won't it be ported to Linux by others?"

The charm of beauties is different, even Qin Mu, who has a girlfriend, is attentive, explaining: "It takes time to transplant, and there will be various bugs or loss of performance and function due to compatibility problems, we are originally free, and those companies don't need to put the original version without it, they have to use the second-hand goods that are ported." ”

Jiang Danfeng finally understood, so he took a few bottles of pure water and distributed them one by one with a smile to thank her, so that Du Qiu, who was watching coldly, admired her long-sleeved dancing ability.

On the afternoon of April 26, Du Qiu left the capital by plane and returned to Yuncheng after a two-month absence.

"Uncle, you're finally back, and if you don't come back, I'll forget about you!"

Du Qiu dropped his backpack, rushed forward two steps, picked up Lin Jinyan, who was rushing over from the TV, held it high above his head, and said, "Jinyan, has your uncle become handsome?"

"Uncle, you are so handsome!"

Du Chunhua walked out of the kitchen wearing an apron, looked at him with a smile, and said, "It's a lot more handsome." ”

"Mom...... Of course. Du Qiu turned his head to look at the familiar smile, almost called out to his mother, and hurriedly changed his words: "Sister, what did you make delicious food at night?"