At 1:30 p.m. on August 25, John Walker, who had been sitting in silence for a long time, welcomed one of the people he was going to meet today. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

"Hello, Mr. Warnock." Walker stood up and smiled, "It was a wonderful meeting, we are so close to each other." ”

"That's right, Mr. Walker, and we're all called John." John Warnock, who had just walked into the house, laughed, both of them were successful people in their almost undoubted years, and the businesses they founded were so similar, and today they met together for a wonderful reason, which really makes people marvel at the wonder of the world.

"Where's Miss Wang?" Warnock looked around the room, "Our future big boss is late?" ”

"She just used her car phone to inform her that there was a sudden series of car accidents in the city and that she would arrive a little later." Walker patted Warnock on the shoulder, and the two men who could easily confuse the names sat down first.

Warnock stroked his beard and said, "Car phone, it seems that Miss Wang has purchased a luxury car?" ”

Walker poured a cup of coffee for a friend: "That's the writer Roger Lawrence of DreamWorks, and the girl herself just bought a Bugatti." Oh John, you heard it right, she bought a Bugatti. ”

"To be able to develop your career to this level at this age, it is common sense to buy a supercar." Warnock said with a smile and swept around.

Warnock, the founder of the listed company Autodesk, and Walker, the founder of Adobe, have similar surnames and the same first name. Don't look at the scale of the latter's company, both of them are successful people of the same class, but at this time, they also came here with the same identity.

Walker spoke first: "It seems that our little boss's ambition is really not small, Mr. Warnock, how did you come up with the idea of selling Autodesk?" ”

The direct reason, of course, is that the stocks that fell sharply as early as the "87 stock crash" were massively acquired, so opening his mouth, Warnock sighed for another reason.

"I'm tired," he said, "and I've always liked to live a quiet life, and it's better than anything else to buy a few acres of land on the banks of the Mississippi, build a hut, and hang out with my wife for fishing." But you see, with the current development of the company, can I be allowed to retire? ”

It's embarrassing, after all, for Walker, he hasn't made Adobe public for six years, and the other company's shares were split again last year. The so-called people are more popular than people, and it really can't help but make Walker smile bitterly.

"So," Warnock said, looking at his watch, "the downtown area is so large, presumably Miss Wang should be able to ...... soon Ah, what did I say. ”

The door opened again, and a standard high school girl walked into the conference room.

"Sorry to keep you waiting." The delicate women's suit trousers and plain shirt are even more rare to tie up the long hair, which is a subtle dress, and after careful care, it does not feel too old, Alice greeted the two with a gentle smile.

"Ah, our boss is here!" Warnock smiled and got up to greet him, and Walker immediately stood up and stretched out his hand. Both men are old enough to be the fathers of girls, and Warnock's beard gives people a sense of age. But in the face of the high school girls who entered the house, none of them would be able to put on a score.

"Sit, sit, blame the damn car accident, I actually hit twelve cars in one go! How long have you both been here? Have you run into it too? ”

"On the way here, I saw a lot of ambulances rushing to the road." Walker, who arrived later, was concerned about the situation: "Are there many injured people?" ”

"Seven or eight are there, and the people from the TV station are also here, I guess you will be able to see it on TV tonight." So the topic can be stopped now, and Alice takes the tea handed by Walker. After all, she is the current general manager of the company she acquired nearly a year ago, and the current second largest shareholder of Adobe, of course, knows her preference for drinks.

"Then the two," she said, taking a sip of tea, "I think you all know what the main topic of today's meeting is, right?" ”

Merger of the two companies.

The decision was expected by all.

The construction plan of the Alice Building has recently become the latest series in the Los Angeles Times, and not long ago, the official announced a new decision, that is, the size of the building will be increased from the original 528 meters to 632 meters in one go. This is no small feat, and throughout the cycle, people from all walks of life have commented on it in the newspapers, and even many media outlets on the East Coast have reported on it.

After all, there are no 500-meter-tall skyscrapers in the world these days, let alone 600-meter-high. Although Manhattan was obsessed with this type of building in the thirties, fifty years later, especially after the Great Depression, everyone realized that the mere skyscrapers had nothing to do with economic prosperity. In contrast, Silicon Valley, full of low-rise buildings, is the best counterexample.

So the construction of this new skyscraper is really unexpected by too many people, especially since the owner of the building is Alice Wang, such a typical rising star in Silicon Valley. Therefore, people have long made countless speculations about the actual use of this building, considering that Alice has long claimed that this is a self-use building, so the move in of its various companies has become the most preferred event.

In addition, companies like Adobe and Autodesk, which are in different fields but are both in the computer graphics industry, are definitely merging. After all, Alice, a big capitalist with high school students, has too much potential for development in the future, and it is not easy to manage it if she has a series of countless business directories.

"When it comes to mergers, we need to take a good look at the current situation of our two companies." One is a successful listed company, the other is a small company with huge potential, and the two founders are not stunned young people like Gates, but veteran programmers who can be Alice's father, how to deal with this matter, it really needs to be carefully pondered.

"Both of you are amazing seniors, both of you are old people who have witnessed the development of our entire IT industry, and I will certainly not forget this." In any case, put your respectful attitude out first.

"Mr. Warnock worked as a system programmer at the company that produced the world's first large-scale commercial computer, and at that time it was still far from the PC and the Internet. And seriously, I did know that the program you wrote in '75, "Pervade", could automatically check the directory when the game starts, and then copy itself to any directory that hasn't been copied yet, or overwrite an existing version of the game. Although your purpose was to promote the game, it must be said that you really pioneered the concept of computer viruses. ”

This is an implicit compliment, but only the same kind of people can laugh, but Warnock and Walker are of course the same kind of people. But seeing that the new boss suddenly said what he had experienced more than ten years ago, Warnock, the perpetrator, couldn't help but be very surprised when he first arrived, after all, they hadn't said this when they met before!

Well, yes, the merger discussed today, of course, both companies have been bought by Alice.

In addition, John Walker, a graduate of Utah State University, holds a Bachelor of Science degree, a Master of Science degree, a Master of Science degree, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science in Electrical Engineering. In 1976, you worked at the San Francisco branch of Evans & Sutherland, a computer graphics company, on the development of an interpreter for interpreting New York Harbor's large 3D graphics database. It was this experience, along with some later career and some inspiration from Apple Computer, that led you to create a company like Adobe. You can also say that you are also following a very standard high-speed development path. ”

"So, the potential for both companies is huge...... Yes Mr. Warnock, with all due respect, Autodesk is now a publicly traded company, but it's still early in its glory days. Adobe has a veteran talent like Mr. Walker, and the blowout phenomenon is just around the corner. ”

"So in terms of company mergers, here's how I think."

The previous series of introductions also allowed the founders of these two companies to understand each other's backgrounds, and seeing the bright stars rising between them as expected, Alice also knew that it was time to get down to business.

"The name of the new company is a simple combination, Autodesk &Adobe, abbreviated as A&A...... Is this order possible? ”

Adobe, which has only launched a product this year, is ahead of Adobe, which is already a listed company, and Walker certainly has nothing to say against it.

"The new company A&A, of course, the financial and management aspects are all one, and what we need to do is to reintegrate the financial statements and re-list it. However, the original employees of your two companies are still working on the original project. The financial and macro management systems are integrated, but in specific business areas, we still have the original two product lines. ”

Alice raised her finger and said: "One is the AutoCAD series, as a professional 3D engineering drawing software, it will never have to worry about no market, and based on the professionalism of engineering construction, we also have a specific version that can be made, and the price is high." ”

"One is the Adobe series, PostScript, a programming language that can make us a leader in the field of graphic design and even the field of online media in the future. The continuous update of the same software will allow us to have a super huge industrial chain. The same is true for AutoCAD, so although the company is merged on a macro level, internally, we are actually equivalent to two companies sharing one office. ”

The last remark was quite funny, and both middle-aged people laughed happily. Warnock, on the other hand, thought of more, and he couldn't help glancing out the window, and although it was a low floor, in terms of direction, the Alice Mansion was about to rise from the ground.

"So Miss Wang," as a senior programmer who developed AutoCAD himself, he couldn't help but ask, "can you show me your masterpiece?" (To be continued.) )