In the eighties there were two very well-known software companies called Oracle and one called Aston-Tate. The former, known by its Chinese name as Oracle, while the latter, Ashton-Tate, was acquired by Baolan as early as the early nineties.

In its early years, Oracle focused on the minicomputer market, and its first customer was the CIA. Ashton-Tate, on the other hand, focused primarily on the microcomputer market, developing the DBase library software, which was hailed as one of the top three killer software applications on PC-compatible computers in the 80s.

Li Xuan vaguely remembers that the dbase software was sold by mail order under the name of "Vulcan" in the early days. It wasn't until one day that George Tate, who was looking through a mail-order catalogue, discovered that he began his glorious journey in the 80s. With curiosity, Li Xuan decided to stop by this Wayne's home to see his "Vulcan" number jù library software.

Wayne's room was a mess, with a lot of dirty laundry piled up haphazardly, and the computer desk was full of cans of beer and Coca-Cola, and half of a harded pizza. He smiled at Li Xuan with some embarrassment, and quickly cleaned up the area near the computer desk first.

It's normal for otaku who don't have a girl to be sloppy, Li Xuan doesn't care. His eyes were focused on the application that Wayne had shown him when he opened it. This is not only a library software, but also a programming language.

Through Guò Wayne's live demonstration, he wrote this "Vulcan" software, which can not only generate tables, but also can be used to load and save numbers, while also surviving new pure programs. In this way, users can also program their own information management systems while performing data library applications and statistical calculations.

Li Xuan's eyes became brighter and brighter, and he was sure that the software in front of him should be the famous dbase. His mind was spinning at once, thinking about how to get the software in his pocket.

"Vincent, do you need it? I can give you a copy if you do, free of charge!" Wayne smiled a little shyly.

"Yes!" Li Xuan said without thinking before he came back to his senses from his wandering. He needed more than just a copy, but the copyright to the entire software. Looking at Wayne, who was panicking around looking for a copy for him, Li Xuan's original intention to get it out of the other party's hands at the smallest cost somehow suddenly became much smaller.

To use a word in later generations to describe Wayne is a tech nerd, who doesn't talk much, is not good at communicating with people, and is not good at business promotion. As a result, the excellent digital jù library software such as "Vulcan" has been dark since its birth last year. If Li Xuan hadn't suddenly appeared, it would have been silent for a while, until a man named Tate accidentally found it in a mail-order catalog.

"Hey Wayne, are you willing to sell this 'Vulcan' software?" Li Xuan asked tentatively.

"I've been selling, but as you know, it's selling badly!" Wayne smiled self-deprecatingly, "Well, this is a copy for you! I originally made 100 copies, you see, it's been a year, and they're still here!"

Li Xuan followed Wayne's fingers, and saw a pile of plastic software boxes stacked together in the corner of the wall, revealing them after he removed the clothes that were covering them.

"What I mean by that is that I'm ready to buy out the rights to it!" Li Xuan said.

"Why are you buying it out, if you need a lot, I can give you the rest of these copies here!" Wayne paused and smiled embarrassedly, "But if you want them all, you can't give them all for free, I spent two hundred dollars when I made these copies, and you need to pay me back!"

Li Xuan was a little speechless, don't you be so enthusiastic, okay, you are so friendly, how can I calculate you!

"This is a very excellent digital library software! 500,000 US dollars, I buy him out on behalf of Dongfang Electronics Company, and at the same time sincerely invite you to join Dongfang Electronics' technology research and development office in Silicon Valley!" Li Xuan said sincerely.

"Half a million dollars? are you not mistaken?" said Wayne as he stared at Li Xuan incredulously.

"Yes, I'm pretty sure, this 'Vulcan' software of yours is definitely worth the price!" Li Xuan nodded, and he felt a little embarrassed to press down the price again.

"Okay, I agree!When will the contract be signed?" Wayne ran up excitedly, grabbed Li Xuan's arm tightly and asked.

"You don't have to think about it anymore, maybe my price is still low, and it may not be able to truly reflect the value of this software!" Li Xuan felt that he had become a saint all of a sudden, and when he encountered this kind of simple technology nerd, he couldn't stab the knife in his hand.

"No, half a million dollars is enough!" Wayne shook his head, "**! Who will dare to laugh at my 'Vulcan' for being worthless in the future! I'm going to rent a new house, and it's terrible to share a house with Ashton!"

"Okay, then are you willing to accept Dongfang Electronics' invitation to join?" Li Xuan didn't bother to talk nonsense, he couldn't desperately send money to the other party.

"How much can you pay me?" Wayne asked bluntly.

"What is your current annual salary?"

"Fifty thousand dollars!"

"Okay, I'll find someone to talk to you about the specific treatment, but I promise, it's definitely more than your current salary!" Li Xuan said with a smile.

"Cool! That's no problem, I can quit at any time to join your Oriental Electronics Company!" Wayne snapped his fingers and said very happily.

After just a few hours of contact with him, Li Xuan already knew that Wayne in front of him was a person with a very simple personality, and it was not difficult to get along with this kind of person.

Text software, table software, and the software development department of Dongfang Electronics already have mature products, but the progress of digital library software is relatively slow.

Li Xuan's original plan was to buy the madman Ellison's Oracle Company. But when you think of Ellison's arrogant personality, he is not an easy person to get along with and is willing to live under others for a long time. What's more, Oracle's customers in the early days were sensitive departments like the CIA and the US Naval Intelligence Service, and Dongfang Electronics, as a foreign company, would cause unnecessary trouble if it acted rashly!

But Li Xuan suddenly fell asleep and met a pillow, so easily he bagged the equally excellent dbase software. At this moment, he finally put the text software, table software, and data library software, which promoted IBM's PC in the early business office field, and the troika was ready.

In fact, compared with Oracle's Oracle digital JÙ library, DBASE software is undoubtedly more suitable for the current Dongfang Electronics. Because dbase itself is a PC-based digital library software, it will be available on the upcoming ABC computer after the port. Oracle's Oracle is different, it was originally designed based on PDP and VAX minicomputer applications, and it is simply not enough to run memory on a microcomputer.

Dongfang's U.S. branch and its R&D center are located in Santa Clara, the southern district of the San Francisco Bay, the heart of Silicon Valley and home to Intel's headquarters.

As soon as Li Xuan returned to the company, there was good news waiting for him, two prototypes of Dongfang Electronics' first personal computer ABC (Acornbestputer) had been manufactured.