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Don't forget, Tang IT is known as the father of spreadsheets - his first pot of gold was obtained by writing the world's first spreadsheet software, CGrid, which became a killer application on the personal computer platform. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

In other words, Tang Huan is also a programmer who writes code, and in the circle, he can be regarded as skilled and experienced.

Therefore, as soon as he saw the "incriminating evidence" on the laptop, Mr. The richest man reacted calmly, but also made a judgment with confidence - this is in the context of the increasingly fierce competition between Netscape and Zheru Software, and one or some engineers on the other side who have a different temperament have vented their insulting words in the code constants.

Of course, it should not be visible to the average user, and only appear during debugging.

For example, a dialog box pops up in the program, prompting the message "Engineer Zheru is a piece of" - there is reason to believe that no matter whether you click the "yes" or "no" button, the person concerned can feel a sick "cool" in his heart.

How to say it, this kind of thing, if it is pressed to the level of personal behavior, is a prank of Bo Jun's laughter; If it is elevated to the level of corporate attitude, it will stiffen the corporate relationship.

But the problem is that Netscape is a small point, and it is already jumping up and down and the same as Zheru software, how can you care about one more bad word?

Therefore, in this case, Zheru software is really not worth making a big fuss about - if you are serious, you will lose, and you will help the other party hype up your popularity.

After Tang Huan quickly cleared his mind, he slowly closed his laptop.

The energetic Jin Yan, who knows what his father thinks. He stared at the big bright eyes and said, "Dad, I just studied the email bomb clearly - why don't I teach these bastards a lesson?" ”

"I don't know how thick the sky is!" Tang Huan snorted, "Besides, the dog bit you, do you want to bite back?" ”

Jin Yan retorted unconvinced: "Didn't I pick up a stick and beat it back?" ”

Tang Huan raised his hand, nodded his son weakly, and finally turned to Lin Qingbian and said, "You watch him and don't make trouble for me." ”

Lin Qingbian rolled his eyes dissatisfied, "You patiently explain well, how can the child be disobedient." ”

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The affairs of Mr. the richest man are complicated, this kind of ungrade spitting incident, that is, the left ear goes in and the right ear goes out.

But the thriving Internet has always been a place where it is not a big deal to watch the excitement.

Soon, Symantec's computer security experts, while scanning documents, inadvertently found a "backdoor" with insulting words in the Netscape browser Netscape_Navigator program, which was regarded as a big gossip, subordinate to a special small circle of technology communities, and spread to a wider range of ordinary user access spaces, even attracting the attention of traditional media.

I don't know if it's because the attribute value of the new things on the Internet is too high, so that the slightest wind and grass will be fussed and watched by people non-stop - the Netscape and Zheru software of the two parties have not yet opened their mouths, and the outside world is not in a hurry The eunuchs are in a hurry to talk about it.

Leaving aside the comment on whether the code is right or wrong with insults, industry observers are concerned about whether Netscape's irregular behavior of engineers in the product development process means that there is a real "backdoor" in its software.

For the more entertaining insults, the general perception is that Netscape insiders, because they are not as good as others, vent their anger and frustration in their hearts.

The reason why the ass sits on the side of Zheru Software is not because of the subtle psychology of bullying the soft and fearing the hard, but based on a fact formed for a long time - the rise of Zheru Software really relies on technology, not unscrupulous commercial exploitation.

Otherwise, Zheru Software would not have a recognized good reputation in the industry.

The disapproving reaction of some people in the IT circle who are in competition with Zheru Software to this incident is more and more intriguing.

There is no first in the text, and there is no second in the martial arts.

People who rely on technology to eat are more concerned about each other's level.

The competitors who stood at the feet of Zheru and looked up, although they were unwilling to admit that their skills were inferior, they were subconsciously convinced, and from this another subtle psychology was born - your Netscape said that "Zheru engineers are a piece of", so what are we who are at a disadvantage?

There are also people with a broader vision, jumping out of these superficial quarrels and examining this incident from the perspective of the entire software industry.

The more Netscape's engineers are so unscrupulous, the more it shows how powerless Netscape is in competition with Zheru Software's browser products.

According to the industry dynamics in recent years, it is not difficult to deduce that there are not only Netscape in the software industry, but also more companies, which have been suppressed by the dominant position of Zheru Software Company.

A figurative metaphor, namely "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", can be used to summarize and illustrate the current pattern of the software industry.

The strong party that walks the tiger and looks at the world is, of course, Zheru Software Company; The weak side, which is pleasing to the eye and follows the trend, is represented by Netscape, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, IBM, Microsoft, Novell, and Borland.

The reason why the strong is called the strong is because Zheru Software Company is a well-deserved "all-round champion", and its product line includes operating systems, office software, enterprise databases, programming development languages, e-mail servers, World Wide Web web servers, browsers, middleware and other technical solutions and application solutions.

The reason why the weak are called weak is because in the process of competing with Zheru Software Company, the front of the two armies is often only a part of the product.

Among them, Gates, who is known to have the ideal of building a software empire, led Microsoft, and Zheru Software have the longest front, including operating systems, office software, programming development languages, browsers, etc., but this is only a part.

The enterprise market has always been Microsoft's shortcoming—for example, large databases. Previously, he and Sybase jointly developed a relational database project called "SQL_Server", but the two sides announced their breakup before they could finish it, resulting in Microsoft not being able to get its hands on an enterprise database until now.

In contrast to Microsoft's war, IBM, which lost ground on the PC standard. It is in the enterprise market and Zheru Software is constantly fighting.

Taking large-scale databases as an example, Big Blue has a series of database products represented by the relational database DB2 that have been tested for reliability over a long period of time, and the relational database EBase of Zheru Software is an important competitor to each other.

Especially after the successful acquisition of Lotus Software last year, Blue Giant and Zheru Software have another place to compete, that is, the collaborative office software market.

The competition between Sun Microsystems and Zheru Software is also basically reflected in the enterprise market, with workstations and servers supported by the RISC microprocessor SPARC and the operating system Solaris, as well as the recently hyped programming language Java, which also has a little bit of platform and standard controversy.

Compared with Netscape in the field of browsers, Oracle in the field of large-scale relational databases, and the high-profile competition with Zheru Software for fear that others will not know, Novell in the field of network operating systems, Borland in the field of programming and development languages, and Zheru Software are much more "old-fashioned".

This is the current IT version of the story of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"!

Because this associative metaphor inspired by the heavy competitive pressure of Netscape's internal technical personnel and venting "export into dirty" vividly outlines the current stage of the software industry and even the power pattern in the IT field, so it has just been presented to the world, and it has quickly become popular and has become a popular allusion of "if you don't know, it's old-fashioned".

In this regard, although the outside world is talking about it, the reaction of the industry is much colder.

In the face of the fact that Zheru Software's current position is indisputably relying on its own technical strength to win back in a dignified manner, just like Netscape programmers say that "Zheru engineers are a piece of", so that those who are in a weak position in the competition, etc., with the general discomfort of "where do I put it", the IT version of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" makes the frustrated have to look at an embarrassing situation awkwardly - it turns out that he has played the role of foil so well!

No one wants to be exposed, not to mention the dignity of life.

It is no exaggeration to say that the IT version of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" not only allows people outside the circle to intuitively and vividly understand the current industry pattern, but also makes the conflict of interests in the circle intensify and become clearer.

The next industry dynamics also seem to confirm that the contradictions in the IT field have escalated - everyone's anger has been hooked up consciously or unconsciously.

With a history of more than 10 years, the Zheru Spring Developer Conference is about to come once a year as scheduled.

The authoritative position and weather vane significance of this event in the industry have attracted almost all the attention of the IT community, and then similar events have tacitly avoided the edge.

But that has changed since last year — Oracle, for example, is trying to throw up a show.

This year, the Oracle-led NC Alliance Conference and the Sun Microsystems-led Java Development Conference were even more double-fronted, quite trying to push the Zheru Spring Developer Conference into a situation of being attacked on the back of the enemy.

The key problem is that, compared to the past, the NC Alliance Conference and the Java Development Conference have received an unexpected response, and the momentum is directly following that of the Zheru Spring Developer Conference.

IBM, for example, has made it clear that it is working on computers under the NC specification and is also writing new software products in Java.

Not to mention the activity of Netscape, while promoting its own browser status as an NC platform operating system, it handed over the powerful functions of the scripting language in the browser to Java, and even reached an agreement with Sun Microsystems to write new browser programs in Java.

For now, though, Netscape CEO Jim Bucksdale first needs to address a few tough issues.

The layman looks at the excitement, and the insider looks at the doorway - "Engineer Zheru is a piece of", this sentence is indeed very cool, but it does not mean that there is no need to be responsible afterwards.

Regardless of the tension in the competitive relationship, the company must abide by a minimum of ethical norms and cannot condone such "unobtrusive" behavior.

The most valuable enterprise users, the attitude has always been "steady" first, and then there is reason to believe that Netscape will definitely not allow its own flagship products, mixed with what "Zheru engineers are a piece of", which is meaningless to the use of functions, but this situation still happens, which means that Netscape's products, under non-standard management, may have more real "back doors".

This public relations crisis has made another real problem more prominent, that is, Netscape's profitability.

The single product line is a shallow netscape, an innate defect, but it also has to fight with the incomparably powerful Zheru software in the browser market - it's strange to make a fortune!

Jim Bucksdale, the CEO of Netscape founder Jim Clark, who was specially recruited from AT&T, still had two brushes, and after careful consideration, came up with a solution and held a huge press conference.

Without waiting for the reporter to fan the flames, Jim Barksdale first clarified the "Zheru engineer is a piece of" incident, "We have noticed the protest from Zheru Software, and I regret it - this is a personal act, definitely not the company's instructions. ”

After understating this controversial topic, Jim Barksdale brace his spirits and talk impassionedly about Netscape's new product plans.

"Our browser products are about to receive the most important update."

"In order to better express the extraordinary of this update, we decided to change the product name from the original Netscape_Navigator - Netscape Navigator to Netscape_Communicator - Netscape Communicator, and divided into two versions, namely Standard_Edition - Standard Edition and Gold_Edition - Gold Edition, the difference is that the latter has more and more powerful functions than the former. Upgrade fees apply. ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone in the audience immediately whispered, because of the operation mode of this Netscape_Communicator, they couldn't help but pick up people's wisdom and learn from the Zheru software.

It seems that Netscape has gone crazy with poverty, so much so that it has begun to deliberately make excuses for charging for itself.

Jim Barksdale ignores such criticism and continues to point out: "At the same time, Netscape plans to expand its business tentacles into a new and promising territory. ”

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