"That's right!"

Ma Huateng nodded without hesitation, he is in this industry, and he knows that Liang Yifei is not wrong at all.

Although the foreign Internet has only been developed for a few years, the national strength is relatively strong, and the infrastructure has long begun to be laid out, which can be traced back to the Second World War, and there is the concept and application of computers and networks, so the development is very fast, and the general network speed and network stability are much higher than those in China.

In foreign countries, it is very fast to download a few M software, smoke a cigarette, make a cup of coffee, and say a few words; but in China, if ordinary families download it, a few M, Liang Yifei said that it will take half an hour and an hour to be unlucky, which is polite, with the current environment of the domestic personal network, plus most people are not proficient in network operation, intermittently, get a night, and may not be able to download it.

In order to make OICQ popular, the size of the client is indeed a key point.

These few sentences made Ma Huateng feel the same as Ma Yun at the beginning: the person in front of him, don't understand programming, web page production, or computer assembly, but don't say it, people really know 'OK', and the two sentences are to the point.

This is rare, not to mention that it is not common in China, and it is not even common in foreign countries.

At the beginning of this year, there was a big joke in the industry: Sina, a top Internet company in China, contacted Morgan Stanley, a top international investment company, and chatted with each other for a long time in the process of seeking to go public.

Isn't this an Internet company? Why is it called a portal network, and is an Internet company selling doors?

It's really not a joke made up.

This is still the case for the world's top companies like Morgan Stanley, which shows that the current capital around the world has an understanding of the Internet at the 'entry' level, so Liang Yifei, a domestic boss who is not engaged in the Internet business at all, can talk to the point in a few words, which shocks Ma Yun and Ma Huateng is very huge, and his personal favorability is also rising.

"There is another more professional technical question that I would like to ask. Liang Yifei said.

"Speak, please. Ma Huateng nodded, although he was the one who 'answered the question', but he looked like he was asking for advice.

"There are personal information and friend information on it, where are these contents stored?" Liang Yifei paused and explained: "It's like saying that I have a QQ number, and after logging in, my friends will be refreshed, is this stored in the software?"

"QQ, do you mean OICQ?" Ma Huateng was slightly stunned.

Liang Yifei suddenly realized that he had said that he had gone out of his mouth, and there was no QQ in these years, so he smiled and said: "OICQ is so troublesome to call, so I casually gave it a nickname, which can be regarded as a nickname." ”

“QQ…… Uh-huh. Ma Huateng pondered for a while, and felt that this pronoun sounded really good, catchy and close, and then returned to Liang Yifei's question just now, and explained in as popular words as possible: " In general, the information in QQ is stored in the terminal, that is, in the computer, and you can read the friend information of QQ on the computer and so on. ”

"Why doesn't there exist?" Liang asked.

"It's okay, but you have to take into account that if there are too many terminals, the load on the server will be too large, too much information needs to be stored, and the cost will increase; Mahuaten explained.

Liang Yifei thought about it, but shook his head and said: "I personally think that this idea is not suitable for the national conditions. ”

After a pause, without waiting for Ma Huateng and Zeng Qing to ask, he explained: "Foreign countries put information on the terminal, but foreign personal computers are very popular, and most of the people who surf the Internet can be said to use their own machines, whether it is an office or a home, the machines used are basically fixed. But it's different in China......"

As he spoke, he pointed to the computer in the conference room and said with a smile: "I'm here, even if the popularity of computers is relatively high, I am also very interested in the Internet, and I also ask the company to try to adopt modern office, but it can only be done, in each of the company's main offices and main positions with computers, it is not enough to reach the point of one person; ”

"The key is that it's too expensive!" Wu Sanshou interjected on the side: "A computer, as little as eight or nine thousand, as much as one or two hundred thousand, where can ordinary people afford it? Mr. Liang's welfare treatment for employees is very good, but most of our employees still don't go to buy a computer, because this is not a necessity for life, even if you have money, you must first buy daily necessities such as color TVs, refrigerators, mobile phones, VCDs, etc." Therefore, there are still very few personal computers in China. ”

"Director Wu is right, that's what I meant. Liang Yifei said with a smile: "These things are stored in personal terminals, there are not many terminals, and you can't find information if you change a terminal, how can this software be promoted to the public?"

This is true, but Ma Huateng is a little confused.

The public, naturally, refers to those who use computers to access the Internet, and those who use computers to access the Internet, of course, use personal terminals, and use computers, what else can they use?

In other words, the number of people who own personal computers is very small, but the 'masses' for whom the product is aimed are these people.

"Oh, oh, I understand, Mr. Liang, do you mean an Internet café?" Zeng Qing, who had not interjected on the side, suddenly spoke.

"Yes. Liang Yifei smiled and nodded.

In the past two years, although the price of computers is still high, but this thing is not a particularly new thing for ordinary people, and playing games and surfing the Internet with computers has gradually become very common in public life.

So since there are few personal computers and the home network speed is slow, how to ensure that the 'public is online'.

Internet cafes, or Internet cafes, came into being, where a wealthy boss bought a batch of computers, pulled a network cable with sufficient bandwidth, gathered them together, and rented them out for consumers.

Not to mention other places, there are several Internet cafes in Huaqiangbei, where Teng Xun is currently located, and there is one upstairs in their office.

A large number of people surf the Internet through Internet cafes, although Internet access is also relatively expensive, costing a few yuan an hour, but compared with buying a computer, the threshold for surfing the Internet is greatly reduced, so that ordinary students who have no source of income can access the Internet.

"Mr. Zeng is right!" Liang Yifei snorted and said, "Storing information on the terminal computer is equivalent to excluding the group of people in the Internet café, who are currently the largest group of people on the Internet." On the other hand, if the information can be stored on the server, all people, whether they are using a personal computer or an Internet café computer, can use OICQ smoothly, which is what I say, really promotion to the public. ”

What Liang Yifei said is actually not difficult to understand, but just like many simple but extremely useful inventions and creations in history, before they were thought of, maybe hundreds of years or thousands of years, people still used more primitive and ancient inefficient methods, when someone 'had a flash of inspiration', the whole era changed.

Ma Huateng and Zeng Qing are both experts, and with a turn of their minds, they naturally understand whether Liang Yifei is right or wrong, good or bad - in fact, even if Liang Yifei doesn't say it, in a few months, they really can't find new good projects, and after the money on hand is about to run out, they can think of it themselves.

"Mr. Liang, this requires a good server to carry such a large load!" Ma Huateng was afraid that Liang Yifei would not understand, so he gestured and said: "Just like a warehouse, there are a lot of goods to be put now, and these goods need to be in and out every day. ”

Liang Yifei laughed and said, "To put it bluntly, it costs a lot of money to build this warehouse." ”

"Yes, a good server is hundreds of thousands. Zeng Qing interjected: "And if it can really be popular in the future, there are tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of users, then one server will definitely not be enough." Mr. Liang, the chat software not only has to store information, but also the transmission of chat content, text, pictures and whatnot, especially pictures, are very large. ”

"You don't need to explain the technical stuff to me, I don't care. Liang Yifei waved his hand and smiled: "I just want to say now that if you are willing to use this OICQ as a 'road to the future', as Tengxun's next main business, then you don't have to worry about building warehouses, applying for insurance management, building roads and other money-making issues, I will invest." ”

"This ......" Ma Huateng and Zeng Qing couldn't make up their minds for a while, after all, this was just a few minutes of a sentence.

Liang Yifei added lightly and said: "If you insist on selling this software, I am willing to buy it, without a counteroffer, 250,000." However, after I buy it, I will hire a new team to take care of the operation of this thing, or I will pay for it. So I thought, in that case, it's better for you to run it yourself and be familiar with it. ”

This is said thoroughly, if you really watch OICQ being bought by Liang Yifei for 250,000 yuan, and he has invested hundreds of thousands of yuan to hire a new team to do it, wouldn't Teng Xun's gang of 'initiators' suffer a loss to the sky?

"Then Mr. Liang, how can we cooperate?" Zeng Qing asked.

Ma Huateng interrupted him slightly with a wave of his hand, helped his eyes, smiled at Liang Yifei, and said: "Can you give us your plan first, you also know that we have several shareholders here, and we still have to discuss, not that the two of us can give you a clear answer in the office today." ”