The reason why Akio Morita became the soul of Sony is because he has made an unparalleled contribution to Sony's entry into the American market and the internationalization of the Sony brand. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

At Akio Morita's current age, since he has suffered a stroke, it means that he is very likely to retire, and Sony will change his dynasty.

"I've sent another old man off the stage of history." Tang Huan couldn't hold back his "pride" in his age advantage, and instructed Masako Wada in an extremely sincere tone, "I'm really busy in the United States, you go to visit Morita on my behalf, wish him a speedy recovery, and continue to lead Sony forward." ”

Masako Wada obediently promised: "I will definitely send your sincere greetings 100 percent." ”

After explaining to Masako Wada, Tang Huan asked the assistant to pay attention to the changes in Sony's top management - since Akio Morita has fallen, then Norio Ohga will naturally come up according to the usual practice, and the vacated position of president must be a fierce competition.

After the instructions were finished, he turned his mind back.

In November of this year, Mr. The Richest Man has two main events - attending the COMDEX Las Vegas Fall Show and the first APEC summit.

The former is an annual industry event, the importance is self-evident, but it is already familiar with it; is the latter, which can be regarded as a small challenge to Tang Huan, who is used to seeing big scenes.

APEC is the abbreviation of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Asia-Pacific_Economic_Cooperation), which has been in its fifth year since its establishment.

What is special about this year's APEC summit is that it was at the ministerial level for the first four years, but this year it was upgraded to the leadership level for the first time, and it was the first time that it came to the United States and was held in Seattle, a Pacific port city on the west coast.

Among the many APEC institutions is called the Pacific Business Forum. Its main task is to put forward ideas and proposals for APEC's trade and investment liberalization, economic and technological cooperation, and the creation of a favorable business environment, and to submit advisory reports to the leaders and ministerial meetings.

This organization encourages businessmen to participate in the APEC cooperation process, and each APEC member sends three representative businessmen as representatives, and the chairman is the host country at the time -- Tang Huan is currently holding this post.

Therefore, although the richest man has a large team of assistants and consultants to assist, he is still very busy, and there are a lot of speeches alone, and he really has no time to look at Akio Morita, who fell in the blink of an eye.

The time of the COMDEX Las Vegas Fall Show and the APEC Summit is not usually compact, but directly next to each other - from November 15th to November 19th, it is COMDEX; November 19 to November 20 is APEC.

According to the schedule, Mr. The richest man will only give COMDEX the day of November 15 and then fly directly to Seattle.

Gaine: Although the APEC summit will not be held until November 19, it will be a leader-level that is only in charge of major events, and the specific preparations will fall on the ministerial meeting and the forum of business leaders to be held in advance.

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As it turned out, although COMDEX was sold to RB SoftBank, the show was still thriving despite the changes – this year, in addition to the spring show in Atlanta, it also went to Toronto, Canada, and as far away as Sao Paulo, Brazil, in the southern hemisphere.

However, underneath the lively surface, there are also endless business grievances and hatreds - for example, under the nose of the richest man, Novell's CEO Raymond Nolda, has a bizarre conversation with Gates.

Speaking of which, Gates is becoming more and more unscrupulous.

Some time ago, Microsoft and Novell had a secret contact, and on the grounds that the software industry was becoming more and more competitive, they proposed that the two companies simply merge, so as to avoid attacks from each other and complement each other's advantages.

Raymond Nolda was really impressed, after all, as Fangyuan computer standards became the mainstream, the market space for cross-platform software became smaller and smaller, and everyone had to face the head-on competition of Zheru, and the "weak alliance" was not a good way to become bigger and stronger.

Since Lang has a concubine, then the two parties will sign a confidentiality agreement and sit down to talk about it.

As a result, after Microsoft had almost set Novell's trade secrets, it started a tai chi game on the grounds of price, distribution of power, board opinion, and other factors.

After waking up to the fact that he had been tricked, Raymond Nolda's annoyance and anger can be imagined, looking at that look, he wanted to bite Gates a few times.

Novell has now stepped up its capital operation, acquiring a digital research company to fill in the blank space of the general operating system, and then targeting the acquisition of word processing, spreadsheets and other software, trying to build an all-round software kingdom.

Due to the great changes in the ecology of the industry, it is becoming more and more difficult for companies to make a living from a single software product, and WordPerfect, a word processing software that was once very popular, was sold to Novell.

Naturally, these industry secrets can't escape the ears and eyes of the richest man, and he scoffs at them - Raymond Noorda has made frequent acquisitions, but have you ever wondered how well Novell is digesting?

In addition, Gates's methods are too shady to be unbearable for anyone to change.

In fact, relying on technology competition alone, Novell's flagship product, NetWare, a networking suite, has not gone far.

NetWare offers a lot of great features, but it has the drawback that the network protocol used is not TCP/IP, the standard protocol of the Internet, but proprietary IPX/SPX.

If the product application scenario is only for the LAN, whether it is IPX/SPX or TCP/IP, the problem is not big; But the Internet is becoming mainstream, and not using TCP/IP is the same as being restricted in the United States if you don't speak English.

But the process of turning TCP/IP from paper specification to actual code is not so simple - first, TCP/IP itself is a complex and constantly improving protocol system; Secondly, in the process of code writing, programmers also need to know the underlying system very well, and non-senior people are not competent.

So far, the best TCP/IP code implementation is recognized as Zheru's TCP/IP development kit, which has a runtime library that is not only stable and efficient in execution, but also provides a rich and powerful functional interface for third-party development.

In other words, NetWare, which has been using IPX/SPX for so many years, now has a very difficult time switching to TCP/IP.

On the other hand, Microsoft has built a free networking suite similar to NetWare directly into the Windows_NT, and does not give Novell time to transition at all.

It can be said that just these conspiracy on the surface are enough to make Novell's development difficult to last, but Gates still keeps making small moves, which has to make Tang Huan raise a level of vigilance.

The Internet, which has entered the fast lane of development, involves greater interests, and it is difficult to ensure that Gates, who ostensibly bows down to Mr. the richest man, will not be resentful.

Tang Huan suspected that the position of the second child might not be able to satisfy Microsoft's appetite, while listening to Gates announce his marriage to himself with a smile.

"I'm sure I'll be there to congratulate you." The richest man joked, "Do you need me to throw a bachelorette party for you here in San Francisco?" ”

"Forget it. Now I'm less and less interested in playing. Gates shook his head - he seemed to be like Steve Jobs, and it was difficult to find a close friend.

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Compared with Microsoft's current rush to seize the turf of operating systems, office software, and programming development tools in the software market, Tang Huan continues to enthusiastically recommend Zheru's World Wide Web browser Polestar and web server ZIS.

In terms of marketing, ZIS in the background follows the rules, with prices ranging from $6,000 to $25,000 depending on the version, but the front-end Polestar has played a gimmick, that is, while boasting that the official version is priced at $999, while always making the beta version available to users for free.

However, research institutions with federal funding are a different story, especially after the passage of the Gore Act of 1991, which is well-funded and not afraid to waste resources to support research.

This is the case with the National Supercomputer Application Center at the University of Illinois, where a technical team completed a World Wide Web browser that supports four platforms, namely Fangyuan Computer, Unix, IBM-PC, and Apple Computer, this year.

For this reason, the University of Illinois has boasted a lot, and it has even been sought after by the mainstream media.

At this year's COMDEX, Mosaic was brought in to show off – more precisely, by Spyglass, which has been licensed for technology and trademarks.

The company, which was founded in 1990 as part of a division of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, was established to establish commercialization and technical support for the National Supercomputer Application Center there.

So, Spyglass is authorized by Mosaic, and the meat is rotten in a pot.

Today's World Wide Web browser, Polestar, stands out for its sophistication and free gimmicks, scaring other commercial companies from investing resources and competing in this unfamiliar and unpromising field.

In this case, Mosaic, which can run on four hardware platforms at the same time, is quite eye-catching.

Among the visitors was a young man in his early twenties, staring at the Mosaic sign from afar, his face showing indignation from time to time.

He was Mark Anderson, the former organizer of Mosaic's development group, who had just graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and had been hired by a small California company with an annual salary of $80,000 — a lot for a recent undergraduate.

In fact, Mark Anderson's skills are a long way from the standard of outstanding programmers, and his brilliance lies in his ability to speak well at a young age, and it can be said that another real technical master, Eric Biener, a master's degree graduate who is seven years older than him, works for the Mosaic project.

This combination is very similar to what Steve Jobs was to Wads at the beginning of Apple's business.

Mark Anderson's programs are always buggy, and he is restless, so he doesn't have a good relationship with his boss at the University of Illinois' National Supercomputer Application Center.

No matter where it is, there are rivers and lakes - after the official release of the cross-platform Mosaic, the leaders wanted to take credit for themselves and dilute the presence of the R&D team, based on the fact that all R&D resources are provided by us.

As you can imagine, Mark Anderson was marginalized, in stark contrast to the accolades he won on the Internet, and with the enthusiasm peculiar to his age of twenty lang, he left as soon as he graduated - he will not serve you.

Now that I see Mosaic fiddling with others and putting a lot of effort into it, it's not an exaggeration to say that it's a mixed bag.

At this time, an uncertain inquiry voice came from the side: "Are you Mark Anderson?" ”

"I'm Anderson, you're ......" Mark Anderson looked for prestige and saw that he was a well-dressed middle-aged man, very successful person.

"Jim Clark -- the Silicon Valley graphics company that makes professional graphics workstations, that's what I created." Jim Clark replied gracefully.

In fact, this guy has been swept away by the company he founded because of the huge disagreement in the product market positioning.

However, he didn't mention this stubble at all, but said in surprise: "It turns out that it's really you, I just emailed you two days ago, did you receive it?" ”

Feeling the warmth, Mark Anderson scratched his head a little uncomfortable, "I'm busy looking at COMDEX in Las Vegas, so I don't have time to read emails." ”

"It doesn't matter, since we met, it's better to talk to you in person." Jim Clark graciously invited: "The COMDEX Industry Forum is about to begin. There will be a lot of the latest industry developments, which is worth checking out carefully. Let's talk as we walk. ”