The wave of globalization of the computer industry has led to the vigorous development of the software industry that relies on it. More and more companies are adopting computerized work, which naturally creates a huge demand for professional software.

For example, the small company opened by his friend mentioned by Gu Jinhong before is engaged in the import and export trade of fabrics. In recent years, more and more Hong Kong bosses have moved their factories to the mainland, where labor costs are lower. Gu Jinhong's friends were also forced to follow up and move their company's stocking warehouse to the mainland in order to better serve customers.

The company had already built a warehouse in the Shenhai Special Zone and was planning to build a new warehouse in the city of Guangdong. In order to reduce logistics costs, many products will be sent directly to Chinese mainland after placing orders with upstream manufacturers, rather than being re-exported through Hong Kong.

But as a result, the company's inventory account management has also become more complex and cumbersome. So Gu Jinhong's friend came to the door, hoping that he could help make a special inventory management software.

As far as Gu Jinhong knows, Dongfang Software Company has begun to develop various enterprise management software before it was split into two. After the completion of the split, the desktop office software, database software and enterprise management software, these three parts are classified into the umbrella of Oriental Software.

Although Gu Jinhong Gu was assigned to work in an application software company, he knew that Dongfang Shangsoft had a purchase, sale and storage software that could perfectly solve his friend's problem.

It's so powerful that it's been chosen by major companies like General Motors and Westinghouse to help improve their inventory management. But it is precisely because the products of Oriental Business Soft are so powerful that ordinary small and medium-sized companies not only cannot afford them. There is no need for such high-end software.

In fact, it took Gu Jinhong a week or two to come up with a software that met his friend's requirements. The price offered by his friend was 10,000 yuan. It is easy to get it, and this is equivalent to a month's salary when Gu Jinhong worked in Dongfang Yingsoft Company before.

If he is just a person who is satisfied with a small fortune. The income now is enough to satisfy him. But Gu Jinhong is reluctant to accept such a small order, because for such small customers, selling software is only a part of the whole business, and what is more troublesome is the problem of after-sales maintenance.

Because the users of the software are rarely computer technologists, most of them are company clerks who can only operate the computer simply. There may be a slight problem and they will call you to come and ask you to come over. For Oriental Commercial Soft Company, they have a special after-sales engineer to be responsible for solving problems for customers, and this part of the cost has actually been pre-calculated into the sales price.

And if Gu Jinhong has to come to the door every once in a while to solve various entry-level problems for customers, then his future work will not be able to be carried out. But if Gu Jinhong can be favored by customers like Oriental Game Company. Then it's a different story.

Dongfang Game Company casually leaked a little workload to him, and it was worth Gu Jinhong to go outside to pick up dozens of small orders. More importantly, a large company like Oriental Games has high management standards and clear needs, and the responsibilities and obligations of each step are very detailed and clear. Gu Jinhong only needs to complete his tasks step by step according to the requirements of the contract.

In the past, Gu Jinhong was like this when he worked at Dongfang Yingsoft Company, and a detailed development schedule would be drawn up for each new project. The project is broken down into many smaller parts, and everyone knows exactly what they are responsible for and what the deadline is required to complete it.

If you slow things down, the architects who are responsible for the overall decision-making will analyze why. If it's because of some unexpected problem. The project team will allocate additional capable forces to focus on tackling key problems.

Therefore, if Gu Jinhong can cooperate with a big customer like Oriental Game Company, unless he takes over a task that exceeds his ability, it is actually very worry-free. But his biggest problem now is that he is not qualified to talk about cooperation at all.

In fact, Gu Jinhong himself used to work at the Oriental Application Software Company. It is also in line with the basic conditions that he believes it is necessary to adopt programming outsourcing. For example, the new generation of graphics operating system being developed by Dongfang Yingsoft Company, the total number of codes may exceed 5 million lines, which is an extremely complex system engineering.

It's just that Gu Jinhong is a former employee of Dongfang Yingsoft Company. I know very well that my company's secrecy about the development of the operating system has reached the point of perversion. There is no willingness to let outsiders interfere at all. So he dismissed his plan to take orders from his original company at the beginning.

Of course. This actually has a lot to do with the little self-esteem in his heart. Although he nominally resigned on his own, he was actually swept away by the company. As the saying goes, good horses don't eat grass, so he would rather contact his friend Wen Zichao and ask him to help see if there are any opportunities for cooperation with Oriental Game Company.

"What's the situation in your company now?" Wen Zichao asked with some curiosity as he drank his coffee. He knew that Gu Jinhong had opened a company by himself, but it was not clear how far it had progressed.

"I just rented the venue last week, on the sixth floor of the Anhua Building across the road! I just hired a front desk operator yesterday, and I've been interviewing software engineers for the past few days, and I already have two good candidates.

I'm also going to dig up the two people who were in the same class as us, Di Tuolun and Lucky Kun, and then count the five people myself, and I can basically build up the company's technical framework!" Gu Jinhong said about his company, his eyes immediately lit up a lot, and he began to introduce with great interest.

"I'm really convinced of you, as soon as you come up, you recruit so many people, your little money can't stand your squandering like this, I think you can send out a few months' salary?" Wen Zichao unceremoniously interrupted Gu Jinhong's words.

"Alas, running a company really costs money, and you need money in all aspects! The funds I have left now are only enough to pay three months' salary at most, and if you can't get on the right track within three months, you can only close the door!" Gu Jinhong sighed and said helplessly.

"Di Tulun and Lucky Kun's skills are still good, but you can play with the two of them, but don't cheat your own classmates!" Wen Zichao said with a smile.

The names "Di Tu Lun" and "Lucky Kun". It is the nickname of two classmates when they were in class at the Oriental Institute of IT. "Floor mop" is another name given to the Rolex Daytona model watch by Hong Kong people. Originally, Tarren was very fond of showing off the Daytona watch on his wrist, so he was given this nickname by others.

And the origin of Lucky Kun is even simpler. This guy once went to Happy Valley to watch a horse race, and he bought three races in a row, and he won all of them, and his luck was unbelievable. It's just that when they graduated from the intensive software programming class of the Oriental IT Institute, they were not selected by the Oriental Group.

"If you don't curse, I'll die!" Gu Jinhong said a little angrily.

"I'm sorry, I overheard some conversation between the two just now, and I'm very curious about the concept of programming outsourcing proposed by this gentleman!" Li Xuan said with a smile when he had already come to the two of them.

Gu Jinhong is not hesitant to overhear his conversations, in these entrepreneurial cafes in the Fotan Industrial Zone. It's normal for strangers to suddenly join in and discuss topics of common interest.

As the saying goes, once you get married, you get acquainted twice, and many friendships are built in this kind of small talk. And Li Xuan may be the first person Gu Jinhong has met these days who is interested in his own ideas.

So he waved his hand very enthusiastically and asked Li Xuan to sit down, and then began to introduce: "I am Gu Jinhong, this is my old friend Wen Zichao, may I ask what Mr. is called?"

"My friends call me Vincent!" Li Xuan reported his English name.

Gu Jinhong doesn't care, there are many returnees in Hong Kong's IT circle, and many people are more accustomed to introducing their English names. In fact, many primary and secondary schools in Hong Kong are bilingual. Like Gu Jinhong, he has been using an English name in school since elementary school.

However, although the Eastern Group has high requirements for employees' English proficiency when recruiting, it is to facilitate smooth communication between colleagues from different countries. And at the headquarters in Hong Kong. Li Xuan, the big boss, rarely uses his English name to address other colleagues.

And everyone naturally noticed this preference for playing the boss, so under the upward and downward effects, the Oriental Group is not as popular as other companies in Hong Kong with English names. On the contrary, many foreign colleagues came to Hong Kong. He gave himself a Chinese name.

Gu Jinhui's nerves are big, which doesn't mean that Wen Zichao next to him is also unaware. Li Xuan is just dressing himself up a little younger today. I didn't go out of my way to put on makeup and change my appearance before going out.

And the recognition rate of his face in Hong Kong is actually not low, but even if some people think that he looks very similar to "God of Wealth Lee". I wouldn't really think that the person I accidentally bumped into on the street was Li Xuan himself.

Li Xuan's English name is "Vincent", although this news is not widely circulated, it does not mean that no one knows. Wen Zichao happened to be one of the people who knew, because a colleague who worked in the same office as him was also originally named Vincent, but he quickly changed it.

For many Hong Kongers, changing their English name is never a casual decision. Because this name is not only called by friends and classmates from childhood to adulthood, but may even be directly entered into the official identity information of the individual. Because Hong Kong is a British colony, English is the real official phone, so every Hong Kong person must have an official English name.

But Wen Zichao's colleague said that he would change it, just because his boss once inadvertently called him by his English name. As a result, President Du Wenqiang, who was standing aside at the time, subconsciously changed to a solemn posture, thinking that Li Xuan was coming.

Although it was just a misunderstanding, everyone laughed it off at the time. But Wen Zichao's colleague quickly changed his English name, because to some extent, it could affect his future development.

This colleague's current position is not high, but if he is promoted in the future and becomes more likely to meet the company's boss Du Wenqiang, then he may seem embarrassed to have the same English name as the big boss.

Everyone knows that Du Wenqiang, the president of Oriental Game Company, is the number one cronie of the big boss Li Sheng and the veteran of the founding dynasty. He must have called Li Xuan by his English name before, but now that there is suddenly a new "Vincent" in front of him, wouldn't he feel awkward?

And which leader would really be willing to promote, a subordinate who makes him feel very distorted! These are all office politics that can only be understood and cannot be spoken! From this little anecdote that happened to his colleagues, Wen Zichao firmly remembered that the English name of his big boss "God of Wealth Li" was Vincent.

He now looked at the man in front of him who was eight or nine points similar to Li Chang, and his English name was Vincent, and he couldn't help but have some suspicions. It's a pity that Wen Zichao didn't have the opportunity to get close to Li Xuan before, so he didn't dare to really determine Li Xuan's identity, but just quietly began to observe Li Xuan.

"Vincent, do you also agree with my programming outsourcing model?" Gu Jinhong said with some excitement, "The programmers recruited by the Oriental Group in Hong Kong are only paid one-third of the salary of those American colleagues in the Silicon Valley branch, so the Oriental Group is more willing to recruit people on a large scale in Hong Kong!"

In fact, the salaries and benefits offered by the Oriental Group in Hong Kong are twice as high as those offered by other similar companies in Hong Kong! Recruiting the best talents with the best treatment is a basic policy that the Oriental Group has always implemented in Hong Kong, and it will not be shaken easily!

However, this practice has also greatly pushed up the operating costs of the Oriental Group, which is actually not conducive to the development of the company in the long run! Therefore, how to effectively reduce the operating expenses while not changing the treatment of employees is bound to be a problem that the senior management of the Oriental Group has to consider in the future!

And I think that for technology-oriented companies such as Oriental Game Company, Oriental Application Software Company, and Oriental Research Institute, it is completely possible to reasonably control the scale of self-employed employees, use good steel on the cutting edge, and outsource those less important tasks to other companies to help complete!

Previously, Oriental Group believed that R&D and distribution were the most critical aspects of the entire production cycle of a product, and that manufacturing was not important. Therefore, from the beginning of the arcade industry, the Oriental Group has firmly outsourced all the manufacturing links!

And if this idea continues to be deepened, in fact, in the whole research and development process, not all links are so important. Can those unimportant links also be outsourced?

For example, for complex software such as an operating system, the structure and algorithm are undoubtedly very important! As long as the structure and algorithm of the software are good, even if the code is longer and the efficiency is lower, the actual operation efficiency may not be unacceptable! And after the requirements for code simplification are reduced, those engineers who are not so top can also participate in the development qualifications!" (To be continued......)