After the charity dinner, Du Qiu returned to the hotel suite and called Chen Dayou, asking him to add the invitation code that he had just scribbled to Bill Gates in the server, and by the way, revealed some of the content of the chat between the two in the café.

Du Qiu thinks that Bill Gates asked him to come to Seattle because Microsoft was panicked by competitors and wanted to form an alliance with iVie, but after listening to the relay, Chen Dayou thought that this was Microsoft's confirmation of iVie's position and preparing to kill Netscape.

"IBM has a market value of more than $50 billion, SUN and Oracle have a market value of nearly $20 billion, occupying an absolute dominant position in their respective fields, whether it is talent or funds, Microsoft will definitely not be able to kill them in a short period of time, the only thing that can be killed is only the Netscape with a market value of only $2 billion, as long as the Netscape is dead, the network computer will be out of play. After Chen Dayou's analysis, he asserted: "I estimate that tomorrow Bill Gates will talk to you about how to cooperate to kill Netscape." ”

This guy's business vision is really poisonous......

In the original time and space, Microsoft burned money to build browsers between 1996 and 1998, but when Netscape was acquired by AOL and the concept of network computers officially went bankrupt, Microsoft immediately froze the research and development of IE and stopped burning money......

"Is the browser market analysis report for October out?"

"It's out, Netscape's market share has fallen a lot, it was 67.81% when it was first listed in August, and now it's only 53.65%, iVie adds up all versions, it's 31.33%, 6.19% more than in September, and most of them are contributed by version 2.0. ”

"What about IE?"

"10.21 percent, only 2.47 percent more than in September, not as fast as we did. Chen Dayou let out a treacherous laugh and said: "At the beginning, IE could only run on indos 95, which was really a second move. ”

indos 95 sold 10 million sets in two months on the market, is the fastest selling software product ever, but the number of users of the old version of indos and DOS is in the unit of 100 million, the stock market is very huge, iVie browser because of open source, in Unix, Linux, Dos and various versions of indos have ported, the scope of application is much greater than IE, 2.0 after the release of the growth rate of more than it is a matter of course.

"What is the outcome of Netscape's board today?"

"As predicted, Navigator is free but not open source. Chen Dayou was very well-informed, and even got the voting results, saying: "5:0 agreed to be free, and 3:2 rejected open source." ”

"It's okay for free, at least it slows down the decline in market share, and after the acquisition of Excite, their stock should have risen a lot, right?"

"Yes, their market value fell below $2 billion on the day we successfully raised money, and today it has rebounded to more than $2 billion. ”

In 1995, Netscape was a milestone and watershed in the history of the development of the Internet industry, in order not to interfere with the historical process, Du Qiu has been deliberately restraining himself after writing iVie 1.0, except for iScript, he did not continue to come up with new killer technology, nor did he engage in conspiracy and trickery against Netscape, and even did not use the funds earned by speculative yen to engage in marketing, and tossed Chen Dayou casually with a laissez-faire mentality.

Now that Netscape has been listed, iVie has also successfully financed, and there are no scruples, Du Qiu took the phone, went through all kinds of information in his heart, and then said: "With Bill Gates' performance tonight, it seems that he has no intention of killing Netscape by himself, and it is very likely that he will support us as thugs, I am not good at business matters, and you will personally negotiate with Microsoft when the time comes." ”

"No problem, I'm the best at killing people with a knife, ensuring that while killing Netscape, Microsoft can't get a good job. ”

Jennifer was very ambitious, and took a private jet back to Silicon Valley early the next morning, and Du Qiu invited Bill Gates to go to Microsoft Research to discuss with a group of cattle how to design a programming language that competes with Java.

A few months ago, in order to build a software park, Du Qiu once fooled Zhong Gaoshan, a high-ranking official in Yuncheng, saying that after the release of Java, programming is like building a house, and programmers are like construction workers, and software development can be completed by moving bricks and walls step by step, in fact, Java was only an immature toy when it was released in 1995, and it was not until 1998 that it really entered the practical stage under the vigorous promotion of the anti-Microsoft alliance formed by SUN, IBM, Oracle and other companies.

In 1996, in order to dismantle the encirclement of the anti-Microsoft alliance, Microsoft purchased a Java license, and then secretly developed J++, which can only run in the indos environment, and wanted to split Java, but it was discovered by SUN, and the two sides went to court against Bo, triggering the "trial of the century" that attracted much attention at the end of the 90s, so that Microsoft was almost dismembered by the U.S. Department of Justice.

During the lawsuit with SUN, Microsoft decided to freeze J++ and redevelop a new programming language to compete head-on with Java, which is the C# platform released in 2000 and is also a magic weapon used by Du Qiu to knock Microsoft's bamboo levers.

Because it was released later than Java, C# was designed to draw on the advantages and avoid the disadvantages, so from a syntactic point of view, it is better than Java and easier to use, so when Du Qiu was in Microsoft Research, he talked eloquently in front of a group of big bulls and described some of the design ideas and syntax features of C#, which aroused great interest in Bill Gates, and also gave him a great shock - I only had the idea of writing a new language last night, and I completed the preliminary design this morning, which is crazy!

"Autumn, make an offer, I'm going to buy iVie, because you're worth a billion dollars alone. ”

"You don't need a billion dollars, just two hamburgers to buy me because I'm so hungry right now. Du Qiu pointed to the electronic watch on his wrist and said, "Bill, it's already 12 o'clock, let's go to lunch." ”

"There's a nice Italian restaurant downstairs in my office, let's try it. ”

"Good. ”

Microsoft headquarters is located in a small town, there are no high-rise buildings, all low buildings, like a large living community, when the two walked out of the gate of the research institute, they met a middle-aged man wearing a jacket, glasses, and a worried hairline, he directly ignored Bill Gates, and greeted Du Qiu very warmly: "Autumn, welcome to Microsoft." ”

Du Qiu took a closer look and found that it was Butler Lampson, the winner of the 1992 Turing Award, and quickly shook his hand and said, "Butler, long time no see." ”

The status of a Turing Award winner in Microsoft Research is comparable to that of a Nobel Prize winner in a university, and Bill Gates didn't care about Butler Lampson's faux pas, and asked in some surprise: "Do you know each other?"

"Bill, Autumn has an incredible flair for distributed systems. Butler Lampson gave a brief introduction, saying, "When he came to Microsoft in June, he wrote two papers on the Paxos algorithm, which were very valuable for our group's research and development work. ”

Bill Gates didn't expect Du Qiu to be so "versatile", and he was even more surprised, and sighed again: "Autumn, I began to regret not following Brad's advice and buying your company in June." ”

"Come on, Bill, even if you're the richest man in the world, you can't have everything you want, and now we're working together very happily, isn't that great?"

The three parted after a few chats at the door, and Butler-Lampson said before leaving, "Autumn, thank you for inviting me to use iMail, it's the perfect email product, it's simple, elegant, efficient, and I love it." ”

"I'm glad you like it, that's my pleasure. ”

Bill Gates said last night that he would 100% support Du Qiu to develop a new programming language, which was just a lie and had no practical meaning, but when we were eating Italian food together at noon, he really talked about the details of the cooperation and asked: "Autumn, how are you going to work with this new language? Is it a license like Java, or is it submitted to a standardization organization like iScript?"

Before 1995, programming languages were mostly maintained by a standardization organization, such as Basic and C, and after SUN developed Java, it created a new way to issue licenses on a large scale, allowing companies with licenses to improve Java, but the results of the improvements had to be reviewed by SUN.

SUN's approach, which not only uses the power of other companies, but also guarantees the control of Java, looks good, but there are many problems in actual operation, after all, not every company is willing to be a free coolie, Netscape is a typical representative, in 1995 the first to jump out to support Java, but only two years later, in 1997 because SUN can't stand the selfish, rough treatment of allies and abandon Java.

However, it is not reliable to hand over the programming language to a standardization organization, because the work efficiency of these organizations is too low, such as iScript, if it is not forcibly promoted by Du Qiu and Netscape, 3C may not be able to formulate standards for three or four years.

So Du Qiu was ready to adopt the strategy of Java to form the JCP in 1998, saying: "I plan to set up a foundation to independently run the development and maintenance of this language. ”

Bill Gates' eyes lit up and he said, "Very interesting idea, can you elaborate on it?"

"I don't have a specific plan yet, just a rough idea, such as starting a community, and then selecting 10 to 15 representatives from the vendors and individuals who use the language, forming a committee, which has the power to formulate technical specifications......"

"So what are the criteria for selecting members of this committee?"

"In order to ensure that the development plan of the programming language is not distorted by others, the founding companies – such as Microsoft and iVie – will be permanent members, and the rest will be divided into two types, one is the approval committee and the other is the election committee member, and the committee members will serve a two-year term......"

Autumn, I didn't expect you to be very talented in law and institutions. Bill Gates's appetite was far less than Du Qiu's, and after eating for a while, he stopped and said: "I am more and more interested in this language now, tell me, what kind of support you need, I will try to satisfy you." ”

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