Seattle, USA, Christo Commercial Bank is a small local family bank, don't look small, but he has a history of 68 years.

In the United States, there are not only big banks like Citigroup or Morgan, but also many small family banks like Christo in the United States, most of them were established in the early 20th century, and some were even established in the 18th century, although small but with a long history.

In order to save the amount of tape, Mercy asked Mike, the company's only technician, to compress the data before copying, but in this way, the burden on the tape was greatly increased. After a while, the tape stuck.

"Failed again, Mercy, for the fifth time. Mike opened the box, looked at the tapes that were stirred up inside, and said stupidly: "It's good that it's just stirred, not the high temperature melted it, otherwise it would have been done in vain today." ”

Mike carefully sorted out the crumpled tape.

"Whose fault is that? is it you, or me?" After several successive failures, Mersey's temper became very bad, and when he heard Mike's words, he directly roared loudly.

"I've said a long time ago that the data is compressed and then stored on tape. It's easy to jam, and if you're not careful, you can damage the data on the tape. Mike and Mersey confronted each other.

"If tape drives are so hard to use, why do you equipment department use tape drives for data backup?" Myers reproached sharply.

"Comeon! All companies use tape drives for data backup, we don't use tape drives, what do we use? Card or paper tape? I suggest you use hard drives, which is too expensive. Annoyed by the ignorance of the layman, Mike immediately sarcastically returned.

"Aha...... Hard disk" Mersey said sneeringly: "Do you know how expensive a hard disk from IBM is? Tens of thousands of dollars, you or me!"

At this time, a female employee in her 40s walked in, "Okay gentlemen, don't be arguing, I think there is a solution to your problem." ”

Seeing that the two of them turned their heads at the same time, the female clerk raised her hand and shook the newspaper in her hand, "I saw an advertisement in the newspaper today, which is a new data storage device, and it is said that this device is very convenient to use......"

"What is the new data storage device?" Mike said, taking the newspaper from her hand in surprise and looking down for it.

"It's called RAID!"

"Hello, this is Orange, yes, the advertisement is our type, yes, we have launched a new data storage device, 3.5-inch hard drive, this device shell is made of high-strength hard plastic and aluminum alloy, very safe, absolutely not like tape as often as tape...... Yes, yes, and it's also very easy to find and recover data, and if you've ever used tape, you know how painful it is to find a day's backup data from tape and pull it out...... Yes, yes, you're right! We're here to help you solve these problems......

Our hard drive is small, only 3.5 inches, but it has a capacity of up to 10MB...... Do you want to ask what RAID is, let me tell you, RAID stands for RedundanAr ray of Inexpensive Disk, which is a cheap ultra-large capacity external storage subsystem solution that we provide for enterprises.

RAID can connect several, dozens or even hundreds of disks of 3.5-inch hard disks produced by our company into a single disk, making its capacity as high as hundreds to gigabits...... No, no, no, RAID itself is a cheap solution, the price is not expensive at all, you just need to put the hard drive in it, connect it correctly, the operator only needs to hit a key in front of the computer to complete the data storage, it is very practical and convenient, no need for professional technicians......

The price is very cheap, a hard drive is only $199, and RAID depends on how big you use, the smallest RAID can be installed with 4 3.5-inch hard disks for $299, and the largest RAID capacity can reach 1G for $799. However, the price of the hard drive and RAID is calculated separately......

Rest assured, our company has optimized RAID, which is very small and will not take up a lot of space.

Don't worry about the interface, our hard disk includes RAID, there are two interfaces, one is IDE, the other is SCSI, you just need to tell me your company's interface model......

Sir, there are only two kinds of memory device interfaces on the market, IDE and SCSI, IDC is for personal computers, SCSI is for medium-sized computers and small computers, except for these two interfaces, there is no other ...... Our RAID is also the same as the above two interfaces.

Great! You've made the right decision! I'll take note of it later.

You want 5 SCSI RAID units, do you? You want the highest $799 kind of thing? Are you saying that you personally plan to buy one, for home use, all RAID needs to be full? Okay, but I have a computer for sale here, $2589 a computer, the computer comes with a hard disk, 10MB capacity, you also want one, okay, okay. No problem, you tell me the address and our delivery man will send it to you within today......"

The female staff quickly put a note in front of her, wrote down the customer's address, hung up the phone, tore off the sticky note paper, and proudly waved it to her colleagues: "Guys, we have sold six more RAID and a computer with its own hard disk! And one of the RAID is reserved for my own home!"

Her pride was not cheered by her colleagues.

Only the two colleagues raised the ballpoint pen in their hands, shook it to her with a smile, and then continued to communicate with the customer.

In fact, in the spacious office area, all the staff are frantically answering incoming calls from customers, and one by one the order forms are delivered to the department manager, which is summarized and transferred to the back office.

Liang Ning, the manager of Oranges America, took the summarized order address and quickly sketched it on the map of San Francisco like an operational commander: "Roger, you are in charge of this line, starting from the company to the north, through Lombard Street, turning west, passing through Prier Avenue, turning back from Fulton Avenue, and the customer information on this line is here......

Pine, this is your route, you're going to take a loop from Third Avenue, and your route is much longer than Roger's......"

All departments at Western Computer Company were in a cheerful state of hustle and bustle, with employees coming in and out, talking to customers quickly, groups of data quickly gathered and listed on the computer screen of Oranges I in front of the manager's desk.

The open office area outside is just the work area of the average salesperson, and in the isolated offices, there are senior sales representatives who specialize in talking about big accounts.

The work environment is different, but the difference is not much, and the senior sales reps are either with their ties pulled crookedly, or their high heels thrown to the side, and they are talking barefoot into the phone. Some sit in chairs as if they were attending a business reception, some stand in front of floor-to-ceiling windows, pointing at the dragon-like traffic outside, and some talk as they circle around their desks with excitement.

They used the relationships they had built up in their previous jobs to sell each other the company's RAID, hard drives, and computers.

After the hard disk came out, Li Yixuan thought about how to sell his own hard disk more quickly, he thought of a lot of promotional plans, but he denied them one by one, and finally thought of RAID disk array.

This thing is a promotional weapon for hard disks, whether it is for business or home use, the shape can be large or small, the smallest can be installed with 4 hard disks, the maximum has no upper limit, as long as your technology can keep up, no matter how many hard disks are installed. If it is combined with the database software newly written by Li Yixuan, and then with the Oranges I computer, it is simply a super artifact for this time and space.

There are many types of database software, and the most common and familiar is the relational database management system, which is most famous for Microsoft's access and Oracle's Oracle, and the database written by Li Yixuan mainly refers to Microsoft's ACCESS, because he is most familiar with this thing.

In addition to the most common relational databases, distributed databases. However, due to the rush of time, Li Yixuan only wrote Oracle, and the distributed data management system could only be put behind.

However, even this brought a great storm to the plane.

In order to help the salesmen open up the market, Li Yixuan also has a special authorization for them, allowing them to sell a computer and can ship a hard drive for free. Previously, anyone who bought an Oranges I computer could get a hard drive for just $100 more. At the same time, he asked the salesmen, like his previous customers to sell RAID, to add a hard drive to their previous computer for free without selling a $799 RAID.

If you have a hard disk installed in the computer, as long as you buy a RAID for $799, you will also get a hard disk as a gift, and by the way, it is recommended that the other party buy a small RAID for only $299.

With such a combination of punches, the monthly sales of the Oranges I computer skyrocketed by 300% in just one month, and it is still rising.

Li Yixuan is confident that he will sell 150,000 Oranges I computers throughout his '79 years.

The staff below go to great lengths to promote the company's products, but for the upper management, there are more important things to consider.

A month after Will Wright arrived in the United States, he finally got in touch with Huang Bingxi, and the other party was willing to meet with Li Yixuan in San Francisco.

After getting the news, Li Yixuan breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that there was no hope, no matter what your Huang Bingxi's attitude towards him, as long as you are willing to meet, it will be easy to do.