The reason why Du Qiu asked Chen Dayou to be a partner was not because of his family background, nor because of his business ability, but because of his social circle. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

As we all know, all walks of life in China have their own small circles, if it is not a circle of people, it is difficult to mingle with them, Chen Dayou in 1989 after the setback of going abroad, gave up the computer major, and went to study theoretical physics, before nesting in the Institute of Quantum Physics is not idle, but with a scientific research academician to study for a doctorate, as both the top domestic universities and top scientific research institutions of the two halos, naturally belong to the core members of the academic circle.

The so-called literati are light, the academic circle is one of the most high-minded circles, if you don't get the recognition of insiders, it is difficult to recruit suitable high-end technical talents, so as a crossing party that doesn't even have a primary school graduation certificate, Du Qiu needs a guide and recommender to let him blend into that circle.

If there is no Chen Dayou matchmaking, Du Qiu may not be able to recruit a fresh graduate of Beijing University or Qingcheng University even if he tosses in the capital for a month, not to mention high-end and high-quality talents like Qin Mu and Xiao Wu, who are not short of technology and experience......

In fact, Chen Dayou did better than Du Qiu expected, this guy looked lifeless and isolated in Cloud City, but he was alive and kicking in the capital, camping everywhere, and had a wide range of contacts, from arriving in the capital on March 19 to leaving the capital on March 24, in just 5 days, he helped Du Qiu introduce more than 30 talents from all walks of life.

None of these more than 30 people were mediocre, but because the company had too little funds at that time and couldn't afford to raise too many talents, Du Qiu carefully selected and recruited only six elites whose abilities and research directions were very suitable for the company's future development needs, so before he left the capital to go to the United States, although he did not give a specific task content, in fact, he had roughly predicted what program they would write - even if the prediction was wrong, he would send an email to forcibly correct it.

Du Qiu spent a morning checking the results of the work of the five programmers for two months, and was very satisfied with their performance, and at the same time had a further understanding of each person's ability and character.

Among the 5 people,He Lixing has the best job,He wrote a driver for the MACH64 graphics card released by ATI in 1994,The performance is improved by about 4%,MACH64 is the world's first graphics card that supports image acceleration function,With it,The computer can get rid of the performance limitations of the CPU,Has the MPEG video acceleration function,In layman's terms,It is finally possible to watch VCD smoothly on a classic machine such as 486......

Although ATI has been known for driving garbage since the establishment of the factory, but in the domestic environment in 1995, it is a very remarkable thing to write and drive single-handedly and improve the performance so much, Du Qiu is admired and curious, and asked: "He Gong, how did you get these hardware-related information?"

As his name suggests, He Li Xingren is quick to say and quick to act, and replied very briefly: "I have a college classmate who works at ATI. ”

"No wonder. ”

Next is Qin Mu and Xiao Wu, one barely completed the work, but the function is very simple, there are many bugs, and it can't be put into actual use at all, and the other has only completed about one-third of the content, and even the basic prototype has not been completed, but Du Qiu also has a high evaluation of the two, because they are doing something very innovative and commercially valuable, and it is impossible for one person to do it in two months, and it is already very good to be able to do it like this.

Li Jianguo's work has nothing to evaluate, because the improvement and perfection of pinyin input involves not only computer science, but also linguistics, sociology, statistics and other aspects of knowledge.

As for Xu Yongrui, he is a software testing engineer, specializing in finding and fixing bugs and improving the user experience, and does not need to do independent pioneering work, so he only uses some open source software for optimization in the past two months, and does not toss around, and those software have improved a lot in terms of stability and ease of use after his modifications, and he is a very self-aware professional.

At noon, Du Qiu invited six employees to have a big meal, cultivated their feelings, and when he returned to the office after eating, he asked Jiang Danfeng to buy a whiteboard and two pens of different colors to come back, hang them on the wall, and begin to arrange the real work content.

"As I said before, I plan to build our own operating system based on 4.4BSD. Du Qiu first wrote the three letters BSD in the middle of the whiteboard, and then drew a circle on the left and right sides, and said: "There are two development directions for the operating system, one is to do the server market, and the other is to do the PC market." ”

He put down the black pen, picked up the red pen, drew a line in the circle with the two letters of PC, and said: "BSD started too late in the PC market, it is far inferior to Windows in terms of ease of use, and it lacks the support of software and hardware manufacturers, so it cannot compete with Microsoft for the time being, so we have listed it as a long-term strategic goal and are ready to fight a protracted war." ”

In 1990, Microsoft released, in just two years sold 10 million units, since then has established the hegemony in the field of PC operating systems, and as August approaches, all kinds of news about Windows 95 are overwhelming, and even the official version has not yet been released, those who have got the preview version of the industry media have unanimously called it a revolutionary product, and the momentum is extremely strong.

Whether an operating system can succeed, in addition to its own quality, also needs to be supported by a prosperous ecological environment, Microsoft after more than 10 years of accumulation and development, hardware has Intel, ATI, HP and other giants support, in addition to their own Visual-Studio and Office, there are millions of companies around the world to develop application software and video games for it, and BSD is almost blank in this regard, nothing, there is no way to compete with it, so Xiao Wu raised his hand and said: "Mr. Du, I think it is better to simply give up the PC market and devote myself to servers." ”

"No, this is an area that cannot be given up because the market is very large and we still have opportunities. Du Qiu painted most of the circles with PC letters written in red, and then wrote the word government in a small white area, saying: "Windows is too expensive, and the copyright requirements are strict, ordinary users can use pirated copies, but government departments cannot, if we can tailor an operating system for it, it should be very popular." ”

"Mr. Du, BSD doesn't even have a graphical user interface, and the officials of those government departments are stupid and can't use it at all!"

"That's why I said I'm going to fight a long game. Du Qiu smiled, knocked on the whiteboard and said: "The official is stupid, but there are also advantages, that is, the requirements are low, easy to perfunctory, and only two things are needed to get away, first, the graphical user interface, and second, office software." ”

He pointed at Qin Mu with a pen and said, "Old Qin, I'll solve the graphical user interface, is it possible for you to make office software and get text and report processing software within a year?"

Qin Mu thought about it very cautiously for a moment, and then said, "I need manpower." ”

"How many?"

"Five...... Six or seven. ”

"Yes, the company has money now, and it will give you 8 places to recruit people, but it is only allowed to recruit fresh graduates, and the monthly salary starts at 2000, if it is a very outstanding talent, it can be doubled. ”

Qin Mu didn't expect that he only needed a fresh graduate, so he was slightly stunned, then nodded and said: "If there are 8 people to help, it should be able to be made in a year, and it is guaranteed to be no worse than WPS." ”

"WPS isn't our competitor, Microsoft is. When Du Qiu said this, he suddenly remembered something and asked, "Has the Pangu office software of Jinshan Company been released?"

"It was just released a few days ago, and it's been heavily advertised lately. Zhou Yuan is most familiar with this aspect, and said with a smile: "The advertisement is a bit inexplicable, and I don't think the effect is very good." ”

Of course it's not good, it is said that more than half a month after the release of Pangu office software, someone called to ask what it was......

Pangu office software is the Waterloo of Kingsoft, which has lost its dominance in the domestic word processing software market and made Word pick up a big bargain......

After the dismal sales, there will inevitably be big layoffs, which is a good opportunity to poach people, but Du Qiu doesn't really want to recruit those old programmers whose thinking has been solidified, and after thinking for a while, he said: "Lao Qin, I'll give you two more recruitment places, you pay more attention to the situation in Jinshan, and if there are suitable talents, they will be poached." ”

"Okay. ”