Chapter 177: The Hedgehog and the Fox

In Western fables, there is a story that the fox wants to eat the hedgehog, and the hedgehog only needs to make himself a ball, so that the fox is helpless (in fact, if you keep it for a long time, you will lose, and the hedgehog will eventually be eaten by the fox).

Later, the story was extended in Western philosophy, economics, psychology and other fields, and the fox and the hedgehog took on new meanings. The fox represents a person with a lot of ideas, while the hedgehog represents a person with a single mind and never looking back.

In terms of business management, fox-type enterprises are full of interest in new industries and constantly try to cross industries, while hedgehog-type enterprises focus on one industry.

According to statistics, most companies that try to cross industries end up failing, probably because too much business distraction and attention leads to lack of success in each industry, and eventually collapses because of competitiveness.

Therefore, there are many aphorisms and aphorisms that emphasize "focus and professionalism" in both the center and business management.

Now Bee Technology is a typical fox-style company, operating a variety of application software at the same time: browsers, input methods, anti-virus software, PC stand-alone games, online games, but also operating instant chat software Honey Chat, Bee advertising, online video business fantasy platform and online crowdsourcing platform CTA network, as well as the ambitious virtual planet plan, in addition to its software platform business involves independent operating systems; Hardware products such as bee enote tablets and quadcopter drones (excluding products such as keyboard and mouse, USB flash drives, headsets, and notebooks that were previously produced on the original brand) are now stepping on the Internet café industry, which has already shown its declining appearance, and can not be described as a typical fox type company with excessive curiosity.

Zhang Yuexuan and Tang Jiayi have reminded him of this situation, and the four-member team of the food and agriculture company has also asked him specifically, and Atletico Madrid's answer is to wait and see, anyway, it's okay for the time being, isn't it?

This is not an explanation, but other management believes it.

On the one hand, Atletico's "consistent correctness" gives everyone confidence, and on the other hand, it is also a very common thing for domestic Internet companies to try a variety of businesses.

For example, in addition to the "core" business of the portal, the three major portal sites such as Slag Lang, Sou Li, and Wangzhu have also engaged in instant messaging, search engines, personal space, e-mail, blogs, classmates, online game portals, online games, real estate portals, and a large number of projects.

Wangzhu Company was the first to find the right survival trick, discovered the golden combination of portal + online game, used the portal to maintain influence, and made money by independent research and development of online games. Ding Sanshi, the owner of the net pig company, once became the richest man because of the online game business.

Souki Company also followed suit, and after trying to act as an agent for several domestic and foreign games, it launched a self-developed online game adapted from Jin Daxia's famous book "Dragon Babu" at the end of last year, and its current performance is good. At the same time, the search raccoon input method launched by Soraci last year is now the fourth most used input method in the country after Microsoft Pinyin, intelligent ABC, and bee input method.

The third portal, Za Lang, also joined the online game industry, but they chose the route of Sino-Korean joint venture and established NC-Private NA. However, due to poor management and the state's policy of prohibiting foreign-funded enterprises from directly operating online games, NC-Private NA was disbanded last year, and Za Lang became the only one among the three major portals that did not touch games.

In fact, domestic software companies and Internet companies are involved in games, especially online games are a very fashionable (popular) and very common thing, after all, SD Group relied on a Korean online game signed by 300,000 US dollars to make a fortune and become the richest man.

Atletico still remembers the acquisition of Slag Wave 19 by SD Lightning two years ago. 5% of the shares, intending to acquire Za Lang, and finally forcing the management of Za Lang to throw out the poison pill plan (once triggered, the acquired company will sell shares to other shareholders at a low price, diluting the acquirer's shares and thus increasing its acquisition costs) also appeared on CCTV news.

Although the poison pill was not triggered in the end, and SD did not completely control the slag wave, it is still one of its major shareholders.

In China, the promotion of commercial software and industry software relies on relationships and channels, and consumer software has been plagued by piracy for a long time, and online games that are difficult to pirate have become an important lifeline. After the success of SD company, many companies went to South Korea or Europe and the United States to "seek the truth", or developed their own, intending to take a share of the online game market, and most of them were doing well.

Atletico Madrid's ambitions are much bigger than those companies that are content to run a successful online game, and their goal is to refresh the single-player rankings of Popular Software. On this list, the domestic classic "The Legend of Sword and Fairy" more than ten years ago has been at the top of the list for a long time, and it has "overpowered" the endless foreign masterpieces. Anyone with a discerning eye knows that this is just a feeling of the magazine's readers and editors, a kind of weak and powerless struggle. If you really ask them face to face, "Is the game of ten years ago really better than Warcraft??better than a big pineapple??," they would probably have a hard time answering.

The "Daming" series of games promoted by Bee now includes three versions: web online games, 2D client online games, and 3D LAN stand-alone games, sharing the world view of "Daming World", which in turn originates from the "Earth of the Ming Dynasty" in the Internet Open Project Virtual Planet (VUP). The latter is also the common background of a large number of Ming Dynasty-themed online novels, such as "Hui Ming as a Prince", which is now being serialized on Dianniang.

Users can modify the "Earth of the Ming Dynasty" or modify the "Ming World" by participating in VUP editing, and make their own suggestions and contributions to the world forces and plot trends of these three games. This is no longer just a game, from the very beginning, novels, films, television, animation and games have been promoted on all platforms, and users have fully participated, although the influence is not great for the time being, but Atletico Madrid is full of confidence in the future of this small seed.

Making games, but not just making games, this is the goal that Atletico Madrid has set for himself, and to a certain extent, it is also the three immortal complexes that Chinese people often have that promote him. Since the game is seen as "electro-sea-loin", let's try to turn this situation around!

I think that the game company is a "poor student maker", so I strictly prohibit minors, engage in user knowledge level testing, and launch the legendary long-awaited domestic operating system, which is always okay, right?

The goal is ambitious, but the plan to achieve it is realistic and tortuous.

In fact, combing the product line of Bee Technology, you will find that it has been moving towards the goal of the dual-core route, not the "portal + online game" created by Netpig, nor the "chat software + online game" that the chat software giant is trying to practice, but Microsoft's set of "operating system + game".

As a "pure domestic" (in fact, it is not pure, there is alien technology) operating system,Bee OS has always been very low-key,It has been showing people in the image of the old mobile phone savior and copycat machine special system,In fact, after nearly a year of analysis and cracking of competitors' functional code、After collecting and analyzing user demand updates and iterations,Bee OS has developed into a fairly stable and powerful cross-platform operating system。

The difference is only the cooperation of hardware products and software products, and the operating system is never something that can be done alone. Microsoft's Windows system is backed by the CPU giant Intel, and it has taken more than 20 years to develop tens of thousands of software and hardware manufacturer partners; Apple's macOS seems to be only installed on its own Mac computers and produced and sold by itself, without hardware partners, but in fact, its CPU has also been strongly supported by IBM and Intel; and the Linux system has also relied on the support of the open source community and a large number of software companies to develop and grow.

In terms of promoting its own operating system, Atletico Madrid learned from Apple computers and directly launched its own hardware products, as long as the hardware products are in demand and there is a market, their own operating system will also have a market.

Qi Baishi, a master of Chinese painting, once warned his disciple Yun: "Those who are like me die, and those who learn from me live", although Apple Computer has sold clothes for several years, but after all, it is a veteran and a big man in the field of PC personal computers, and their Mac computers equipped with their own operating systems can stand up to Windows PCs, but Atletico Madrid does not have this certainty and crazy self-confidence.

Therefore, Bee OS chose a "curve to save the country" route, not choosing to challenge the supremacy of Windows on PC like other Chinese Linux distributions, but intended to start with consumer electronics. Bee Technology's new factory, which is being renovated, will produce mobile phones, tablets, MP4 players and other products equipped with Bee OS in the future.

Atletico Madrid got news from Jupiter Communication in the deep pit that the state is currently studying the administrative review of market access for mobile phones, and the network access test of new mobile phones will become voluntary. A large number of copycat manufacturers are actively preparing for the deep pit, and Atletico Madrid is also quite moved, but for the time being, the most important project of bees in electronic products is the high and low collocation of tablet + mp4.

As for the PC version and server version, there is no promotion plan for the time being, and it is only kept secret for personal use. For example, the virtual system server of the space station Internet café with powerful performance and can simulate more than 100 high-configuration PCs at the same time is the server version of Bee OS.

The reason why they can only simulate 100 PCs at the same time is because considering the investment risk, Atletico Madrid deliberately slowed down the construction of the computer room, and the servers were not completely arranged.

Because now is the period when the manufacturing process of memory particles is upgraded, the capacity is transitioning from 512 to 2GB, the hard disk is transitioning from flat recording to vertical recording, and the capacity is sprinting from 80GB to 250GB.

However, Atletico's virtual system requires a large amount of memory and memory particles due to its special situation, so the investment cost is closely related to the memory price.

Traditional hard disks are mechanical, with an electric motor driving the magnetic platter to rotate continuously, and a robotic arm driving the magnetic head to move on the platter to write or read data. The advantage is that the price is low, and the disadvantage is that the mechanical parts limit the performance and life.

To compensate for the shortcomings, another type of non-mechanical hard drive was invented, called an SSD. It uses flash (flash memory) chips, or DRAM chips to replace disk chips as storage media, so that the hard disk can obtain several times or even more than ten times the increase in read and write efficiency. Among them, the flash chip is the storage medium used by mobile storage devices such as U disk, SD card, TF card, etc., which can be read arbitrarily without any life loss, but the flash chip has a limit on the number of writes.

The optimized design of the SSD main control chip will allow the scientific management of the read and write operations of each storage unit, avoid the operating system from frequently erasing and writing a specific location, can greatly extend the service life, and can fully meet the needs of ordinary users.

DRAM chip is the memory particles on the memory module, the solid state drive composed of them has a higher read and write speed (theoretically it can reach the read and write speed of memory), and the theoretical life is longer (it is unlimited without considering the aging of components), but the price is more expensive, the cost of 1GB capacity is as high as 200 yuan or more, although the 32GB SSD purchased by Atletico Madrid for his car is also very expensive, but it is nothing compared with this price.

Moreover, this kind of SSD needs to be powered by a separate power supply, and once the power is off, it will lose data like memory, so it will only be used in situations where performance requirements are extremely high.

Atletico Madrid's virtual system is such an occasion that requires extremely high read and write speed and life of the hard disk. His virtual system virtualizes the CPU, memory, and hard disk resources of the server to hundreds of users, which is equivalent to the server's hard disk being superimposed dozens or hundreds of times the read and write burden at the same time, and the read and write speed of ordinary mechanical hard disks cannot keep up, and the write times of ordinary flash solid state drives have a limited lifespan, and only the DRAM memory hard disk can meet the needs.

In fact, the hard disk scheme of Atletico Madrid's virtual system is a hybrid scheme that uses three kinds of hard disks at the same time, using more than a dozen 250GB large-capacity hard disks with the latest vertical recording technology as audio-visual entertainment servers to store occasionally used film and television files and game clients, and also purchasing a batch of the cheapest 80GB hard disks as download machines, specifically for Internet data transmission; using infinitely readable flash solid state drives as reading disks to store operating systems and common games; using DRAM memory hard disks with the best performance and highest price as write-back disks to save virtual system operation data and user files。

So far, the system has withstood the first wave of tests, but Atletico is not completely reassuring.

Everyone's plan is to stop some users with high prices first, and use high performance to please a small number of users who don't care about the price to establish a reputation. Then, according to the market price changes, hardware products are purchased in a timely manner, and the number of users accommodated by the system is gradually expanded. There is a certain risk in doing so, and if 400 players suddenly pour in to the space station Internet café to play high-configuration stand-alone games together, the server in the computer room will definitely not be able to hold up.

Just in case, Atletico stayed on duty in the Internet café during the seven days of the May Day Golden Week, and on the surface, if there was some trouble that the store manager Lin Jiwu could not solve, he could make a decision to solve it immediately; in fact, Atletico planned to go up to serve as a temporary server at any time to help the server in the computer room resist the pressure.

Atletico Madrid is looking forward to such a scene, after all, the gross income of 400 people online for one hour at the same time is 4,000 yuan, and 12 hours a day is 4. With a gross income of 80,000 yuan and a net profit of at least 30,000 yuan, you can earn money by lying in the bathtub, and you can easily earn one million a month and ten million a year.

Of course, this is just a joke that Atletico jokes with themselves when they are bored. Before the virtual system is installed in place, Atletico will continue to work like this to earn money, and when the May Day Golden Week is over, will he take leave to stay on the Internet every day?

The relevant plan is already in the management system of the Internet café, as long as the limit is exceeded at the same time, the management personnel will be prompted to choose whether to activate the plan, and use some flexible means to reduce the number of simultaneous online. From reminding the Internet for too long, adjusting the sound volume of background music, to adjusting the winning rate of the lottery on the hour, the number of recharge coins, and even the ultimate weapon to kick people off the network and modify the price, there is a whole set of plans in it.

"The task has been added to the automatic download list, and after the download is completed, it will be automatically synchronized to e:Download Directory/Movie/(click here to modify the default synchronization location), you can view the progress at any time, and remotely manage the download task. ”

Nodding slightly, Lin Chen had a pretty good impression of the special download tool of the space station Internet café, in the past, playing games in other Internet cafes and playing movies, thunderbolt downloads will always cause the game to have a greater delay, but now it is automatically downloaded on the server, and it will only be synchronized to the machine after the download is completed, so it will not affect his own play.

Thinking of this machine, he looked down at the "local connector" fixed to the desktop, and he still thought it was incredible.

He has also seen diskless Internet cafes, there is no hard disk in the chassis, through the server virtual hard disk, it can completely realize the function of running software and playing large games, but it is only a virtual hard disk.

He didn't expect that he would be able to virtualize even the CPU memory and graphics card together.

Lin Chen didn't know that the so-called "local connector" was a simple computer, and he connected his member computer through the "local connector", which was essentially the same principle as his remote desktop computer at home with the remote desktop function of his laptop. However, although Windows Remote Desktop supports running applications and games on the target computer, because of the transmission rate, the picture is quite bad and cannot be used to play games and watch movies, while the virtual machine technology and video flow control technology of the space station Internet café support games and multimedia are better.

"But that's good. Lin Chen turned his head to look at the network manager who was cleaning next to him, and sighed in his heart.

As soon as the man next to him took out a lighter and lit the fire, the water cannon on the ceiling "forced" to extinguish the flames, and at the same time, the screen indicated that his member computer had been switched to the smoking area. The man tried a few times to no avail, so he had to curse and go to the smoking area.

In addition to the two advantages of rich games and comprehensive movies, the air quality of the space station Internet café is also very good, from the Internet café introduction video on the desktop, he learned that the Internet café is not only equipped with an air conditioning system, but also equipped with an air purification system, which can effectively remove formaldehyde, odor, bacteria, dust particles and other pollutants in the air. claimed to have reached the level of high-quality air quality in the forest park, but it was not clear whether it had actually reached Lin Chen, but it was true that he did not feel stuffy and breathless after sitting in it.

Although he didn't feel tired, the system had replaced his desktop wallpaper with a bean green wallpaper that read "It's time for dinner, caring for yourself starts with eating on time and eating healthily!" ten minutes ago.

And the smell of food wafted in the air from time to time, and it kept changing, and he finally couldn't stand the bird anymore, so he turned off the browser and went downstairs to eat. It is said that this aroma comes from an aroma reminder system in an internet café that awakens the customer's appetite and taste sense by blowing the aroma of food on time, so that they do not neglect their normal eating time because they are focused on gaming and surfing the Internet. During non-meal hours, the fragrance of flowers and trees and other special aromas are said to be effective in suppressing appetite and cravings, thereby reducing the amount of garbage in Internet cafes.

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