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In fact, Microsoft is not the only IT company currently being controlled by Wall Street, for example, there are also Lotus Software and Apple Computer.

The former, with its spreadsheet software Lotus1-2-3, was used on PC platforms for most of the 1980s. However, the way of working using assembly language development has brought leading execution efficiency to the product, but it has also increased the difficulty of program code maintenance and upgrade, which eventually led to a serious lag in the platform upgrade progress from the disk operating system to the graphical user interface operating system, and the market was lost helplessly.

Thankfully, Lotus didn't hang itself from the office software tree on the highly competitive PC platform, and it entered the enterprise software market in the late 1980s, successfully building another flagship product, Lotus_Domino/Notes.

This is a typical server/client architecture, with the concept of "collaboration software" as the selling point of the IT product solution, that is, multiple people through the network, cooperate with each other, in the form of a whole to improve productivity.

The server-side is Lotus_Domino, the client is Lotus_Notes, and specific features include email, calendar, contact management, task tracking, instant messaging, file sharing, and more.

"Collaboration software" is certainly a beautiful concept, but it's not that easy to implement – imagine how several people edit a document at the same time, and how do you end up with the right results?

Therefore, after the success of Lotus_Domino/Notes, it has dominated this enterprise market together with similar products of Zheru Software, and it can be said that the income is stable and rich.

However, because of the collapse of office software on the personal computer platform, Lotus Software was beaten by Wall Street, so that IBM took the opportunity to exploit the loophole and used about $3 billion to force the acquisition successfully.

Originally, Big Blue planned to take Lotus Software in a gentle way, but the negotiation process between the two sides has been repeated several times, and the employees of Lotus Software Company, who have not recognized the actual situation, have always opposed it on the grounds that the corporate culture of the two sides is too different.

Seeing that this rare opportunity was about to slip away, IBM immediately took drastic measures.

The reason why the blue giant is so disrespectful is because although the performance of Lotus Software has attracted the dissatisfaction of Wall Street, its value is still there, especially enterprise application solutions such as Lotus_Domino/Notes, which are highly complementary to IBM's product line.

One of the great architectural features of Lotus_Domino/Notes is that it is open enough to attract a large number of third-party applications like browser "plug-ins" and form a remarkable ecosystem.

Even Lotus_Domino this server, it is easy to assume the role of a website server.

After the successful acquisition of Lotus Software, IBM quickly occupied the node of a website server in the Internet ecosystem, in addition to the original hardware server and software database.

Originally, Microsoft was very happy to see Lotus, an opponent who had forced itself to retreat in the field of office software, end up like this.

But what I didn't expect was that Wall Street so quickly whipped the whip of the lesson at itself.

The tears on the faces of the laid-off employees of Lotus Software have not dried yet -- how can Microsoft and Gates not be frightened?

In contrast to the forced takeover of Lotus Software, Apple Computer is actively seeking to be acquired - its chief executive, Michael Spindler, is actively working to sell the company to IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and even Sun Microsystems in order to get out of the bad business situation.

It's just a pity that Apple, which has been spurned by Wall Street to the point that its stock price is about to fall below $10, unlike Lotus Software, which has almost irreplaceable chips such as Lotus_Domino/Notes, which is really difficult to arouse the interest of buyers.

After all, the current personal computer market pattern is very clear - Fangyuan personal computers have become the mainstream; IBM-PC compatible machines, Apple computers, etc., have been reduced to a niche.

I have to say that Michael Spindler's future in-laws of Apple Computer -- IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and Sun Microsystems -- are each of them "dignified" and "entrusted" for life.

But the problem is that IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and Sun Microsystems' computer hardware product lines all focus on servers and workstations, and put personal computers in a complementary position.

Among them, HP has long embraced the Fangyuan personal computer standard; After IBM entered the 1990s, it was forced to switch to the Fangyuan personal computer camp due to the pressure of reality; Sun Microsystems, on the other hand, has been less interested in personal computers.

As for NC, as a concept hype, a chip layout, there is nothing to do, but whether it is worth using a lot of real money to buy Apple Computer as a processing plant will have to be carefully weighed.

In this case, Apple is like a daughter in distress whose heart is higher than heaven and her fate is thinner than paper, and she wants to find a rich and handsome man to marry - not ordinary difficulties!

Of course, the value and charm of Apple still have a special meaning that cannot be replaced by certain types of people - such as Steve Jobs, the founder who was swept away by the board of directors ten years ago.

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In the luxurious CEO office at Oracle's headquarters in Redwood City, San Francisco Bay Area, Larry Ellison coaxed, "Steve, I can pull in $3 billion in financing and take Apple Computer directly in one fell swoop -- maybe after a while, when its stock price goes down further, it's more secure, and it's more cost-effective." ”

Glancing at the expensive golf club broken in two at the corner of the wall, Jobs shook his head slightly and said, "I don't want to buy Apple Computer Company hostilely." ”

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The following is the anti-D part.,Update it tomorrow.,Just ignore it.。

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It is no exaggeration to say that for Yahoo, who has only shown sharp corners of Xiaohe, the richest man with too much capital, whether he looks down on it or replaces it, there is nothing to say.

However, he still quietly watched this little seedling, growing up according to his instinct with natural ecology. Guy, Yahoo's great thing is that it inherently contains a new and viable mode of operation.

Of course, the richest man owns AOL, but the AOL's model does not represent the entire Internet and the World Wide Web.

Although AOL is not as qualified as its competitors in the online services field, it certainly has no problem being older than Yahoo. It came to the fore in 1983 when the ARPA network was divided into military and civilian parts, and TCP/IP began to become a universal protocol.

Due to the lack of resources in the era of Internet pioneering, the operation mode of such online services has been to try to provide all the Internet access content by themselves from the beginning, and to lease network lines on a large scale, or even build their own network lines, to become Internet_Service_Provider Internet service providers, that is, ISPs.

In contrast to AOL's "hard" model, which keeps users in circles, Yahoo represents a "soft" path to provide navigation capabilities for the portal because the Internet resources have begun to explode so much that users are at a loss for what to do.

Yahoo's main job is to set up servers, maintain its own "website database", and provide an attractive navigation page that takes up the entry point to the Internet with countless websites, without having to rent lines and control users to its own website.

To put it more lofty, or even politically ~ more correct, Yahoo represents freedom~ freedom and openness, and truly explains the spiritual essence of the Internet.

Of course, this does not mean that AOL is on the wrong path, but Yahoo is on the right path -- the different stages of the development of the Internet have contributed to different road trade-offs and operational characteristics.

Moreover, AOL still represents the mainstream at this stage - Yahoo's website navigation directory is in the front row, and it must have its place.

Under Tang Huan's guidance, AOL has embraced the World Wide Web many times faster than its competitors in online services, and it can be said that its path has always been "right".

But it is impossible to make AOL one step more "correct" and switch to the model of a portal. Not to mention that the portal model has just emerged, it is impossible to part with AOL's existing content resources alone. The online service model has been "correct" into its genes, and it can only fine-tune its own direction with the development of the Internet.

In this case, the value of the incomparably new Yahoo to the richest man is reflected - it can not only meet the layout of not putting eggs in one basket, but also greatly reduce the cost of mastering the portal model.

As for the value of David Ferro and Yang Zhiyuan, the two graduate students, they are similar to James Cameron, who is dedicated to filming "Titanic", and the persistence in his bones is not easy to find.

You must know that with the strength of only two people, it is a manual work to organize the information of thousands of websites into an indexing service, but it is definitely not possible without enthusiasm.

Tang Huan casually opened the Yahoo page on his computer, and couldn't help but smile to himself—the server in David Ferro and Yang Zhiyuan's apartment was probably overwhelmed and about to strike.

Meng Jing, the little cousin who was sorting out the information on the side, couldn't help but roll her eyes after seeing Tang Huan's scheming and complacent expression, "Brother, you have preemptively registered so many .com domain names, aren't you afraid that others will say that you will bully the small?" ”

"Silly girl, with these domain names, we can virtually try not to miss any fish in the layout." Tang Huan laughed, "When someone comes to inquire about the transfer of the domain name, it is equivalent to an event trigger on the program, and I don't know how much effort is saved." ”

Meng Jing nodded suddenly, "Then you have chanted Yahoo's name several times, are you planning to catch this fish that slipped through the net?" ”

"Yahoo isn't a fish that slipped through the net, it's a fish in my pool." Tang Huan replied playfully: "By the way, Yahoo's hits are about to exceed 1 million, it is estimated that David Ferro and Yang Zhiyuan, two poor graduate students, should also have an idea of the commercial value of the work they are interested in. After this busy time, arrange for everyone to come to a meeting. ”

"Got it." Meng Jing agreed, and then handed over a document, "This year's COMDEX Las Vegas Fall Show is really a rare competition, not to mention the addition of Sony's Playstation in the field of home TV game consoles, just Polestar, a browser software of Zheru Software Company, Polaris, has a new competitor." ”

Tang Huan looked at the document and said calmly: "This Netscape - Netscape I know that Jim Clark, who ran away from Silicon Valley Graphics, invested $4 million to establish a small start-up company - the browser market, there are not many of them, and there are not many of them. ”

"You've repeatedly stressed to us that the competition on the Internet platform is free of charge." Meng Jing reminded: "Compared to Polestar, which is a commercial software and is temporarily free in the name of promotion, now Netscape_Navigator Netscape Navigator has no hesitation to position itself as a shareware as soon as the official version of 1.0 is launched, which is really free, which is menacing and not comparable to other competitors." ”

"Polestar is technologically ahead and has a first-mover advantage in market share, so it's not afraid of Netscape_Navigator disruptions." Tang Huan waved his hand relaxedly, "Netscape_Navigator want to grab market share by relying on clean and free means, then I can also spend money to buy others to use Polestar through multiple software product package promotions and secret subsidies." ”

Meng Jingwan said: "Brother, you have to pay attention, although Zheru Software has been spun off and has reached an anti-monopoly settlement with the Federal Ministry of Justice, there are still people staring at it - it is too domineering and easy to fall into the handle." ”

"Polestar's browser homepage URL, but it was sold to AOL; If we support Yahoo again, the relationship between this small alliance will be a bit difficult to coordinate. ”