Under the leadership of Wu Ming and Charles Simeone, Polaris finally completed the development of the Polaris 1.0 system in early December.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa!"

"Hahahaha!"

All the developers cheered enthusiastically like honey children, and many hugged excitedly.

"Great, Charles!"

Wu Ming's small hand touched Charles Simeone's big hand, slapped his palm, and smiled happily.

"Yes, BOSS, we succeeded, hahaha!"

Simeone also had a happy expression on his face, and his voice trembled a little.

After finishing his happiness, Wu Ming gradually restrained his smile.

After pondering for a while, Wu Ming said unhurriedly: "Since the Polaris 1.0 system has been developed, the rest only needs to leave a few developers on the Star Computer side and improve it from time to time according to the situation." ”

Simeone nodded and said, "Next, we at Polaris can put all our energy into office software." ”

Wu Ming then asked: "How is our recruitment going, now such a few people can't meet my needs." ”

When Simeone heard this, a smile bloomed on his face and he said, "It's going well." Since the launch of Wordeasy and Excel, we have finally gained a little bit of fame, and now there are many more people looking for jobs in our company than before, and we should be able to reach the number of people you want for the BOSS. ”

Wu Ming was very happy to hear Simone's answer. The next development plan needs a lot of people, and now that there are enough people, he doesn't need to spend any more energy to poach people.

Wu Ming thought for a moment and ordered, "Next, all the developers of Polaris are divided into four parts. Some of them continue to follow up on the Polaris 1.0 system, some of them are responsible for the development of the CP/M version of Wordeasy, and some of them are responsible for the development of the CP/M version of Excel. The last part follows the two of us on the development of the next project. ”

Before coming to the United States, Wu Ming only developed Wordeasy and Excel on the Apple computer platform. Therefore, these two software on other platforms still need to be developed by others.

Fortunately, the systems used by other platforms are all CP/M operating systems, and there are not many kinds of various types.

With a template for Apple's computer platform, the development will be very fast, and it will be completed in about a month.

Finally able to start working on office software development, Charles Simeone became a little hesitant.

Wu Ming saw Simone's hesitant look, and couldn't help but ask suspiciously, "What's the matter, Charles?"

Hearing this, Charles Simeone raised his head and hesitated: "BOSS, do we really want to develop Access? You must know that relational database development is very difficult, and there are already several relational databases on the market. In case of failure, our losses will be great. ”

Access, as Simeone puts it, is a database software, and it is an important project that Wu Ming will develop in the next period of time.

A database is a "warehouse that organizes, stores, and manages data according to a data structure." Oracle, the world's largest enterprise-level software company, made its fortune with database software.

Oracle has become one of the world's top 500 companies just by relying on the database as a set of housekeeping skills, and you can imagine how profitable the database software is.

Such an important area, Wu Ming naturally will not let go.

This is arguably the best time to enter this market, and now that there is a mature relational database theory in the market, the development difficulty is greatly reduced.

If it takes a while, wait for other companies to occupy this territory. If you want to enter this market, it will be very difficult.

In later generations, Microsoft relied on the Windows system to kill all sides in many fields. Such as spreadsheets, word processing, etc., the other peers are almost wiped out.

But in the database field, there is still no way to take Oracle, the hegemon that occupies more than half of the market.

From this, it can be seen that if you don't enter this realm now, if you want to enter it later, even Wu Ming, a reborn person, will have to spend a lot of energy and price.

Wu Ming naturally didn't want to be held back by database software, so he was in a hurry to develop Access.

Originally, Wu Ming was also ready to buy Oracle in order to be lazy. It's a pity that Larry Ellison doesn't eat hard and soft, oil and salt, and is unwilling to give up the dominance of Oracle.

Wu Ming had no choice but to do it himself.

Understanding Charles Simeone's concern, Wu Ming raised a smile on the corner of his lips and said, "Charles, you don't have to worry. Since I said that I want to enter this field, I naturally have a certain certainty. ”

"And even if you fail, it won't break your bones. Don't forget, I made a lot of money in oil futures. You may not know the exact number yet. I'm going to tell you today, so that you can be at ease. ”

As he spoke, Wu Ming stretched out two fingers. Then he spat out a number that shocked Charles Simeone.

"Two billion dollars. ”

"Boom!"

Charles Simeone froze in place as if struck by a bolt of lightning, unable to speak for a long time.

"Really?!" Charles Simeone stammered.

He knew that Wu Ming had made a lot of money in oil futures this time, but he thought it was only hundreds of millions of dollars, but he didn't expect it to be two billion dollars.

No wonder Wu Ming has always been so calm, not at all worried about whether Access will fail. With so much money, even if Access fails, it's just a matter of throwing money into it.

Wu Ming nodded and said with a smile: "Will I still lie to you?"

Charles Simeone relaxed when he heard this, and his mouth breathed a sigh of relief.

Wu Ming smiled slightly and said, "So you can just relax and concentrate on developing Access, we can afford to lose a little money." ”

Then Wu Ming said: "And I have already sent people to those database software companies to poach people, with a group of programmers who have developed database software, our probability of failure should be reduced a lot." ”

As a lazy expert, Wu Ming naturally didn't want to spend too much effort on Access, anyway, now that he has money, he can squander it at will.

Charles Simeone smiled excitedly when he heard this: "That's great!"

Next, Wu Ming and Charles Simeone had a heated discussion about the development of Access.

Wu Ming relied on the advanced theoretical ideas of later generations to repeatedly argue and persuade Charles Simeone.

After that, Simeone's eyes looked at Wu Ming even more fanatically. made Wu Ming almost think that Simeone liked him and wanted to have a relationship with him.

For a long time, Wu Ming has been avoiding Charles Simeone except for the time when he was developing software.