Chapter 19: The Old Way of the New Golden Mountain

In recent years, Kingsoft GM has developed very rapidly, from the very beginning of a few people to work hard, now it has developed to the scale of more than 40 people, and has also set up a branch in Beijing. Under the planning of Li Ruxiong, the marketing manager of the Beijing branch, Kingsoft General compiled two textbooks, "WPS Easy Learning" and "WPS Classic Course", and chose the opportunity to distribute the two textbooks through the publishing house. With the popularity of teaching materials, WPS has also become widely popular, although piracy is still the mainstream, but the sales of WPS have also begun to grow rapidly, which not only brings considerable economic benefits to Kingsoft GM, but also lays a certain material foundation for Kingsoft GM Beijing Branch. More importantly, with the successful market operation of WPS, the brand value of Kingsoft GM began to gradually emerge.

Recalling the growth of Kingsoft General in recent years, Zhang Lexing and Ma Guanghai took the elevator to the 6th floor where Kingsoft General is located. Most of the employees who came to Jinshan General for the prestige of Bojun are technical development talents, and they are often addicted to work, but as soon as they entered the door today, Zhang Lexing was a little surprised. There were only two or three kittens in the office, and they didn't look like they were working. Seeing someone push the door in, a girl sitting near the door got up and walked over.

"Hello sir, is there anything wrong with you?" the girl has long shawl hair, a petite and lovely person, and her voice is soft and glutinous, which makes people listen to it a little intoxicated.

Ma Guanghai coughed, Zhang Lexing calmed down, and said, "Miss, I'm looking for you to ask the president, is he here today?"

"I'm sorry, Mr. Qiu is in a meeting, I'm afraid it's not convenient now. The girl said apologetically.

"It's okay, you take my business card in and show him, I'm sure he'll have time. Zhang Lexing took out a business card and handed it over.

"Then you wait a minute, I'll come when I go. The girl cautiously took the business card and turned and walked into a room not far away.

In less than a minute, the door of this room, which was supposed to be a conference room, opened again, and Qiu Bojun hurriedly walked out of it.

Seeing Qiu Bojun coming out, Zhang Lexing greeted him and said, "Mr. Qiu, what are you busy with?"

"Ahem, it's not always the same, or tell me to ask Bojun to get used to it. Qiu Bojun said with a smile.

"Why are you holding a meeting so early today, is there something important?" Zhang Lexing asked with some curiosity.

"It's not a big deal, one is to summarize the successful experience of WPS in promotion, and the other is to discuss the future development focus, if you are interested, you can also come and listen. Qiu Bojun explained.

"Okay, just in time to meet you too. Zhang Lexing had this intention, and immediately nodded in agreement.

Before entering the conference room, Zhang Lexing asked the girl who had received him before to ask for a few newspapers and magazines, and gave them to Ma Guanghai to pass the time, and then walked into the conference room with Qiu Bojun. The conference room was full of more than 30 people, and Zhang Lexing's appearance made many people look curiously, probably thinking about who was coming.

Qiu Bojun took a step to the side, and then introduced Zhang Lexing to everyone in the conference room: "Everyone, let me introduce you." The person next to me is the investor of our company and the major shareholder of the company, Mr. Zhang Lexing. ”

Qiu Bojun took the lead in clapping his hands, and there was a crackling applause in the conference room, but looking at everyone's expressions, it was obvious that they didn't pay much attention to Zhang Lexing, and the applause was just based on a kind of etiquette. It seems that what technicians really care about in their hearts may still be technical masters, such as Qiu Bojun, it is estimated that most of the people here are coming for him.

Qiu Bojun didn't notice the difference in the expressions of these people, and after helping Zhang Lexing arrange the seats, he continued to preside over the meeting. Listening to everyone's words, Zhang Lexing slowly understood, now everyone should still be summarizing the experience of WPS promotion, all of you here are technical personnel, and the natural topic is more technical level. For example, someone mentioned the problem of printer compatibility, because in these years, plug and play technology still only exists at the level of technical discussion, not only the operating system is not supported, but the hardware is not ready, so what peripherals you want to use need to go through a very complex setup process to use normally, and the one just mentioned printer compatibility, is to simplify the printer settings and support more types of printers through the functions provided by WPS, which can make it more convenient for users to use, and it will be easier for WPS to promote. There are many topics like this, some talk about menu design, some talk about the adjustment of typesetting functions, and after thirty or forty minutes of communication, the topic began to slowly turn to the future development of WPS.

A thin young man stood up and began to talk: "At present, the WPS we are developing is running under a command-line operating system like Kylin, which is developing well for the time being, but I think there is no hope for continuing to make software under this platform." ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone was shocked, and even a few people who were anxious glared at him angrily. His words also made Zhang Lexing interested, and asked Qiu Bojun in a low voice: "Who is this young man?

His name is Lei Jun, he has only joined Kingsoft this year and is now one of the best programmers in the company. Qiu Bojun briefly introduced.

Hearing the familiar name made Zhang Lexing's heart flutter, and he couldn't help but take a few more looks, Lei Jun at this time looked like a very ordinary young man, it was hard to imagine that he would be able to achieve such achievements in the future.

Under the encouragement of Qiu Bojun, Lei Jun continued his speech: "Why do you say this, because the KylinWindows platform is the future direction, and the transfer of software products from the Kylin platform to the KylinWindows platform is the general trend. KylinWindows platform already has such a mature product as VisualOffice, but there is no Chinese version yet, if we do not use this gap time to catch up, with the popularity of KylinWindows platform in the future, our WPS will lose all the advantages accumulated so far. Before I came to Kingsoft, I stayed in Beijing for a while, last year Glorious Sun Software has started KylinWindows promotion activities, held a lot of technical exchange activities, there are quite a lot of software companies have planned to launch their own products on the KylinWindows platform, if we don't start, I'm afraid it will be too late. ”

As soon as Lei Jun's words fell, Qiu Bojun continued: "I think Lei Jun is very reasonable, the future office software market prospects are very broad, but if we can't keep up with the development of technology, we will soon be replaced by others." So I decided that we Kingsoft should also make office software under the Kylin Windows platform. ”

With Qiu Bojun's words, the atmosphere in the conference room became active again, and everyone echoed Qiu Bojun's opinions, and even some people put forward a more ambitious goal, to make an office suite like VisualOffice, not only to include word processing WPS, but also to add spreadsheets, electronic dictionaries and other functions, thinking that this can enhance the competitiveness of Kingsoft software, but also resolve the risks that may be brought about by product simplification.

This proposal was quickly approved by everyone, including Qiu Bojun, and the conversation began to turn to how to achieve this goal, and the atmosphere in the conference room became intense. Under the collision of everyone's thoughts, the new development path of Kingsoft General began to take shape. According to the results of the discussion, Kingsoft General will concentrate most of the development strength to do the spreadsheet software under the KylinWindows platform, this part of the work will be put to the Beijing branch to do, led by Lei Jun, Shenzhen is responsible for making a KylinWindows Chinese platform, the name of the platform is very poetic, called Kingsoft Haoyue, after completing the first two parts, and then to develop WPS and some additional functions under the KylinWindows platform. In order to create a different feeling from the Kylin platform, it was decided to use a new name with a more imposing atmosphere, and after everyone's analysis and research, the name "Pangu" was finally chosen, because everyone felt that what they were about to do was to break new ground.

The people of Jinshan General were excited, Zhang Lexing's heart began to be a little hairy, how could he do such an unreliable thing again, in the face of this situation, Zhang Lexing could no longer stand idly by.

"Guys, excuse me. Everyone's suggestions are very good, but it would be better to be more cautious in making such a big decision. Zhang Lexing said.

"To believe in our technical strength, we can be said to be the leader in domestic office software. As long as we want to do it, we will succeed. Qiu Bojun said with some excitement.

Everyone was very emotional, Zhang Lexing was not good at pouring cold water, so he could only make more suggestions: "I believe that everyone will be able to do it, but there are not too many developers in the company, and most of them are transferred to make unfamiliar spreadsheet software, and I am worried that it will have an impact on other functional modules." It is better to concentrate on making a WPS under the KylinWindows platform to occupy a part of the market, and then gradually add other functions. If you really need spreadsheet software, in order to speed up the development process, can you consider cooperating with other companies, for example, Zhu Chongjun in Beijing does the CCED seems to be not bad, can you contact him, invite him to join or cooperate with him? In addition, in terms of the Chinese platform, is it possible to contact Wang Zhidong who wrote BDwin, after all, he already has a certain foundation. In this way, the progress of product research and development can also be accelerated, and the manpower can be easily deployed. ”

It's a pity that Zhang Lexing miscalculated the mentality of the developers who were already in the leading position, at this time they were already a little conceited, including the leader Qiu Bojun, who thought that Kingsoft could do anything, as long as he wanted to do it, there was nothing bad to do. Naturally, Zhang Lexing's kind reminder was selectively ignored by them, and the wheel of history was still stubbornly turning in the established direction.

Of course, Zhang Lexing can also use the authority of investors to forcibly stop the project, after all, Kingsoft GM's finances are in his own hands, but this will only lead to the early collapse of Kingsoft GM and the collapse of personnel, which is not what Zhang Lexing wants. Since this is the case, Zhang Lexing simply stopped talking more, and let them make trouble, anyway, as long as Jinshan General is still there. Of course, Zhang Lexing also has the mentality of looking forward to a miracle, after all, the current strength of Jinshan General Company is stronger than the former Jinshan, although the decision is the same, but maybe there will be better results. With a slightly regretful mood and silent blessings, Zhang Lexing and Ma Guanghai left Jinshan GM.

In the following days, Zhang Lexing stayed in Shenzhen for a period of time to inspect the operation of other industries. Now is the period when learning machines are popular and game machines are suppressed, under the leadership of the pyramid learning machine production plant, the southern learning machine alliance has developed very rapidly, almost reaching the market every ten learning machines have nine out of the learning machine alliance production plant, and the remaining share is divided by several small brands from the north. With the rapid popularization of learning machines, a huge educational software market has also been born, has moved to Shenzhen Yulefang Software Development Co., Ltd. in which occupies the majority of the market share, not only established its own market dominance, but also formed some educational software standards, even if there are several new companies to catch up, but still can not affect the growing expansion of Yulefang brand influence.

Taking advantage of the boom of foreign investment caused by Deng Lao's speech on "building more foreign-funded enterprises", the construction of a large-scale animation and game peripheral production base led by Hong Kong Kunpeng Animation and followed up by a number of Hong Kong and mainland enterprises has started construction. The construction of the base is expected to invest 800 million yuan, and after completion, it will be able to accommodate hundreds of production and related supporting enterprises, and is expected to form a production scale of billions in accordance with the model of Hong Kong design, Shenzhen production and sales for overseas. Zhang Lexing in Shenzhen just in time to catch up with the celebration of the capping of the base plant, the event site is noisy gongs and drums, crowds of people, the city's heads and brains also came a lot, a long speech down, the ribbon-cutting ceremony finally began, and another big base of the future industry began to slowly take shape.

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