With a squeak, the door opened, and a blonde white woman of twenty-seven or eighteen years old ran in and said, "Mr. John, what are you looking for me?" ”

John called Martha over, pointed to the email, and said, "You should immediately call the cybersecurity department to find out who sent this email." ”

Martha looked at the email and said, "Mr. John, I know, is there anything else?" ”

John waved his hand and said, "No, you hurry up and do this, I have something urgent to report to Ms. Genie Romanty immediately." ”

He copied the two attachments from the email to a portable hard drive, then hurried to the outside of IBM's CEO's office, knocked on the door, and was allowed to enter the room, which represented the highest level of decision-making at IBM.

Romanty is the first female CEO of IBM in 100 years, she is 56 years old, her blonde hair hangs down to her head, and the traces of time can be clearly seen on her face. Roman was looking at a document at the moment, and when he saw John walking in in a hurry, he couldn't help but put down his pen and smiled: "John, what makes you so anxious?" ”

John plugged the portable hard drive into his laptop, clicked on the two attachments, and said, "Ms. Romante, just look at this." ”

Romanty saw John so solemn, and she didn't dare to look at these two documents carefully, the more she looked at it, the more solemn her expression became, and finally asked, "John, where did this thing come from?" ”

John smiled bitterly: "It was sent by an email from a person from Huaxia, and it is not clear who it is, but I have already notified the Cyber Security Department to track down the specific address." ”

Romanty looked at the two files on the computer and said slowly: "This technique is an epoch-making invention that is enough to reshuffle the current server market, and we must get it at all costs!" ”

John also agreed: "I think so too, but the intention of that Huaxia man to send this email is very meaningful." ”

Roman said confidently: "The other party sent us this document for nothing more than two purposes, the first is to provoke, show off his might, this is estimated to be impossible, because there is no company in the world that has better server technology than our IBM." The second purpose is to let us see the advantages of this server technology and then sell it to us, which I personally think is the most likely! ”

John's eyes also lit up, and he said excitedly: "Yes, if the other party doesn't want to sell us the technology of this server, why does he bother to give us this information?" Ms. Romante, should we get in touch with each other right away? ”

Luo Manti smiled and said: "It's not busy, let's take these materials to the technical department first and let them see if it is possible to get inspiration to get this kind of server by themselves, if so, I don't know how much less money will be spent on the Dao." ”

John nodded again and again: "Ms. Romante, you are really thoughtful, I am in a hurry." ”

At this time, a stormy figure broke into Romanty's office, and as soon as he came in, he shouted: "Mr. John, Ms. Romante, we can only trace that email to Huaxia, and no matter how we try to find out, we can't trace the specific source of this email." ”

Romanty nodded slightly, "Tommy, we know what to do, you go down." ”

This one named Tommy is a young man in his twenties, but his body is unkempt and looks very sloppy, he said stubbornly: "Ms. Romante, who sent this email, the other party must be a top hacker, otherwise there would be no clue under the investigation of our network security department!" ”

Romanty's face sank, and he said, "Tommy, don't say it, without my permission in the future, this matter is not allowed to be revealed to anyone!" ”

Tommy was startled, knowing that he was not joking, and left in disgrace.

John smiled and said, "These boys all think they are the best in the world, now they should sober up." ”

Romanty unplugged the portable hard drive from his laptop and said, "Let's go, let's go to the technical department!" ”

IBM's Technology Department is one of the most powerful of all IT companies, and Romanty and John came to the Technology Department and found Steven, the director, directly. Steven is a middle-aged man in his forties, dressed in a fancy coat, looking intently at the computer with his legs crossed, and typing on the keyboard from time to time.

"Steven, what are you doing, are you lazy again?" John and Steven are old friends, and they have worked together at IBM for more than a decade and have formed a strong friendship.

Steven glanced at it and saw that it was not only John who came, but even the CEO Romanty came with him, he was a little curious, stood up and hugged John, and said, "Ms. Romante, old John, why do you have time to come to the technical department to play?" ”

Roman Ti handed a mobile hard disk to Steven with a solemn face and said: "Steven, you immediately stop the less important research for the time being, gather everyone to study the data in this hard drive, see if you can eat the information in it in the shortest possible time, and then report to me if there is a possibility of imitation." ”

Steven gasped, "Lady Romante, this is ......"

John hurriedly said, "Steven, you don't care about this for now, you can just do what Lady Romanty says." ”

Steven nodded, and immediately came to pick up the phone on the table and dialed a number, "Hey, I'm Steven, your group's research project will be suspended immediately, everyone will come to me to report, hurry up." ”

He made more than a dozen phone calls in a row, and soon more than 100 people came to his office with a puzzled face, and Steven said to them: "Our job now is to crack the data in this portable hard drive." As he spoke, he shook the portable hard drive in his hand.

Two days have passed, and this matter has alarmed all the senior management of IBM, and Chairman Peng Mingsheng personally came to the outside of the technical department to wait for news. In the technical department, more than a hundred technical personnel led by Steven have not slept for a day or two, they are really sleepy, they sleep on the sofa for a few hours and get up to work, and now their eyes are full of bloodshots, but they are not sleepy at all, but surrounded by a mood called frustration.

It's been two days since 100 of them cracked this information, and there has been basically no progress except for confirming that this information is indeed true. According to Steven's estimates, if you want to restore the complete server architecture and data with a half-claw of data, you will have to use the full strength of IBM at least and spend another year or two.

Seeing Steven walk out with a depressed face, Peng Mingsheng hurriedly asked, "Steven, is the situation like this?" Do you hope to hack the data of this server yourself? ”

Peng Mingsheng's English name is Samuel Palmisano (Samuel Palmisano), he joined IBM after graduating from Johns Hopkins University in 1972, he started in sales, and then worked in IBM Japan, IT services, PC division and mainframe department, step by step became the CEO of IBM and now the chairman, is an extremely excellent talent.

Steven shook his head bitterly and said, "Chairman, Ms. Romanty, please forgive us for not being able to do anything. We can only confirm that this kind of server does exist, and the performance is estimated to be a little more powerful than the other party's description, but if we want to use such a little data to derive a complete data, we can only hope to succeed if we use the strength of the whole company to study it for two or three years. ”

Romanty looked at Peng Mingsheng and asked, "Chairman, what should we do?" ”

Peng Mingsheng said solemnly: "What else can I do?" This kind of technology is enough to reshuffle the entire server market, and if other companies get it, we at IBM probably won't be able to last long. Ms. Romante, I now authorize you to obtain all the information on this advanced server at all costs! ”

Romanty also knew that this matter was related to the survival of the entire company, and said solemnly: "Chairman, please rest assured!" I immediately replied to the Huaxia man, who was willing to pay a high price for all the information of that kind of server, depending on how he answered. ”

……

"Li Haoyu, IBM has sent an email asking if the Lingyun-level game server you sent in the past is for sale." Xiaoyu's voice sounded in Li Haoyu's mind again.

Li Haoyu habitually picked up his mobile phone to look at the mailbox, and there was no prompt that there was a new email, at this time Xiaoyu said: "Because the email is sent by the anti-tracking plug-in, the other party's reply email cannot be sent to your mailbox, but I can accept this kind of email, do you need to check this email." ”

"Check your mail!" As soon as Li Haoyu's words fell, a green light curtain appeared in front of his eyes, on which was an email written in English, sent to the address of IBM Company's external mailbox.

Li Haoyu read the email carefully, and the content was nothing more than a lot of praise first, and then cautiously put forward the idea of whether to sell them Lingyun-level servers, and said that the price was negotiable.

"It looks like IBM is aiming for a cloud-level server!" Li Haoyu smiled and said to himself, this is the best, he has the initiative, and it is enough for IBM to make a bloody blow for the upcoming negotiations.

"Xiaoyu, how should Lingyun-level servers be priced?"

Li Haoyu habitually asks Xiaoyu when he encounters any problems now.

"Lingyun-level server is a new generation of game server produced by Huaxia Longteng Company in 2035, although it is only a server built for games, but with a little modification it can become the most advanced server system. Moreover, the heat and power consumption of the server are 50% lower than that of ordinary servers, and if this kind of server is launched, the company with this kind of server can monopolize the entire server market in the world in a short period of time! So my proposal is $5 billion in cash plus 20% of IBM's shares! ”

Xiaoyu's analysis made Li Haoyu nod again and again, he didn't expect that the information of this server would be so valuable, if it was really as Xiaoyu said, he would never have to worry about money in the future. He wanted to fly to the United States right now, sign a contract with IBM immediately, and put the money in his Swiss bank account.

"Xiaoyu, immediately send an email to IBM and tell them that I am willing to negotiate with them. Please send someone who can call the shots to China to negotiate, the number of people should not be too large, and no one can know the Tao, and after they arrive in Huaxia, let them send me another email, and I will work out the location of the negotiation. ”

"Roger, the mail has been sent." Xiaoyu's pleasant voice sounded.