In order to verify one of his ideas, Sun Cheng did not hesitate to expose a large number of vulnerabilities in the 'Kirin 7.0' operating system in his hands on the most professional computer technology exchange forum in China. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

It's just that he doesn't know how much trouble his momentary move will bring to this operating system company with the big hat of "country".

On the evening of October 20, Nandu Ying Tianfu, the headquarters of Fiberhome Software Company.

A meeting that brought together seven senior executives, including the company's chairman, CEO, COO, and CTO, had lasted for more than two hours, because the sudden layoffs had caused internal shocks within the company, and Fiberhome's top management was also passive.

"Lin Dong, I really can't lay off anymore. Counting this time, more than 300 technicians have been laid off, and it depends on the company's current staff, let alone continue to develop 'Kirin 8.0', and now we are barely ...... even to upgrade our staff."

Fu Dong, CTO of Beacon, looked at the middle-aged man sitting on the chair with sadness in his eyes, and the dissatisfaction in his words could not be suppressed.

The middle-aged man was Lin Lunming, the chairman of Beacon, and he knocked on the table in front of him helplessly, "Mr. Fu, you also have to be considerate of the company." Since its establishment, our company has launched one operation software after another, but not to mention being able to enter the foreign market, so far the domestic market share is less than 5%, which is still the share maintained by government procurement every year. There were already people above who had opinions about us, but I used to have some relationship and could use it. But no one expected that several senior members of the Ministry of Industry were replaced last year, and the new one had just sat down on his ass, and now he wants to practice knives with others......"

There was silence in the conference room, but soon another middle-aged man, who was slightly short and stocky, asked, "...... The Ministry of Industry has decided to stop purchasing from us next year? ”

He is the COO of Beacon - Chen Ling.

"The attitude has been determined, and it's time to send a post!" Lin Lunming sighed, "There are voices accusing us of inaction everywhere in China, and I heard that since the visit of Microsoft President Steve Ballmer in May this year, the Ministry of Industry has been completely disappointed in us and is ready to give up on us and purchase Microsoft system office instead!" ”

"Chinese people don't have a backache when they stand and talk, and the beacon has not been able to develop for so many years, but is this really our fault?"

Feng Xuan, CEO of Fiberhome, lit a cigarette for himself, and his tone was quite resentful.

"When our system first sold 51 tickets, we were able to maintain profitability even without government procurement. But no one would have imagined that in order to bring us down, Microsoft would allow its software to be pirated in China for free after being pirated in large quantities, forcing us to fight a price war. Chinese people keep saying that they support the domestic operating system, but now we have a genuine disk reduced to forty and no one buys it, no one buys it when it drops to thirty, and no one buys it when it drops to twenty, and now it has been reduced to ten yuan. But the people who shouted that they were willing to support domestic production even if they were almost there, all ran to install pirated versions of Microsoft's XP system......"

It was a cold and chilling fact, and there was silence in the room again.

Fiberhome Company has been established for more than ten years, don't look at the big hat with the word "country" is quite glamorous, but the good days are only the first few years.

In those years, because of the good profits, Fiberhome was also willing to recruit technical personnel, actively develop various office software to broaden the profitability, and throw money at hardware companies to persuade the other party to cooperate with them to complete the optimization and compatibility.

But the good days have not passed for a few days, after the Microsoft XP system came out, in order to seize the operating system market of the largest country in the Far East, people did not hesitate to deceive people, and directly provided the latest XP system of sinicization to domestic pirates for the use of the Chinese people, not only cultivated countless Microsoft system supporters, but also cut their own meat and raised a whole industrial chain that made a living by selling pirated Microsoft systems.

You say it's not angry, Microsoft has the whole world's operating system market, hundreds of billions of revenue a year, and I don't care if you make money in Daming in three or five years.

But Fenghuo can't compare with others, they only have their own domestic market, and they have billions of revenues, and Chinese people are greedy for cheap and dislike their own products are too bad to buy.

After losing money year after year, and finally even government procurement and subsidies can not maintain profits, there is only one fate waiting for them, no money to develop new products, no money to maintain a technical team, no money to do optimization, no money to pay salaries......

Perhaps, just like the ridicule and prophecy in the domestic media, bankruptcy is only a matter of time for Beacon!

In the conference room, there was a constant silence for a few moments before someone finally broke the deadlock.

"Now we have entered the era of free software, and there are many Linux systems that are available for free download on the Internet, and even Microsoft's XP and Win7 can be installed for free. Products such as operating systems have no market and no government support, and they are not at all a ...... that a small company can afford."

Fu Dong, CTO of Fiberhome, paused before continuing: "At present, there are only three ways left in front of us, first, take off the 'state-owned' hat, we introduce institutional investors, I believe that as long as the Ministry of Industry is willing to loosen up, there will be many Internet companies in China willing to invest in us!" ”

Lin Lunming made eye contact with Feng Xuan for a moment before nodding in response, "I'll go and ask the Ministry of Industry when I go back, and you go on to ......."

"Second, we put on hold on to the development of 'Kirin 8.0' and use the source code of Kirin to concentrate on developing a mobile operating system, just like 'Android', 'Symbian' and 'iOS'. Personally, I think the future of the Internet is on the mobile side, and the traditional Internet, which is dominated by the PC side, will gradually decline! ”

He put his newly bought iphone4 mobile phone on the table, and also operated it himself for everyone to see.

But it's a pity that now in 2010, even in foreign countries where smartphones have exploded, there are many people who think that the PC side is the big part of the Internet, and Microsoft is still so stubborn, and the senior management of Fiberhome is even more optimistic.

So let him fiddle for a long time, and Fu Dong's reply was very resolute.

"We don't have any experience in this area, and besides, you don't know about the company's current poor financial situation, and it's difficult to even maintain a normal payroll now, let alone allocate funds to develop a mobile operating system, so let's talk about the last one!"

"There's nothing more to say, the third way is for us to maintain the status quo and do nothing, and wait for bankruptcy!"

Fu Dong sighed, leaned back in the chair and never spoke again.

Although he put forward three options, in fact, he is really optimistic about the only second way, that is, to go all out to the mobile operating system and grasp the right to speak on the future Internet.

As for the first road, although it can also be regarded as an option, Fu Dong is actually not so optimistic.

As the chief technology officer of Fiberhome, Fu Dong knows his own situation very well.

Even though the Ministry of Industry allowed Beacon to be privately owned, and they succeeded in bringing in institutional investors, the unfavorable situation did not change much.

With Microsoft to continue to fight for the personal desktop operating system, Fiberhome has proved the gap between the two with repeated failures in the past ten years, not to mention the current increasingly fierce trend of free, which also makes people increasingly unable to see the future of the personal desktop operating system.

The most profitable enterprise-level operating system and office software, whether it is security, operability or software performance, Microsoft has not lost anyone in the world.

As for the server-level operating system, there is Microsoft/IBM abroad, and there is still a big competition in China from Taicang Prefecture, and there is no chance of winning at all.

If you take a closer look, it will not be difficult to find that the first path seems to be a good choice, but the best case scenario is just to let Beacon live for a few more years.

Although Fu Dong did not speak anymore, he had made a start for everyone after all, so after him, there was a heated discussion in the conference room around the feasibility of the privatization of Beacon that he proposed.

We were chatting hotly when suddenly there was a sharp knock on the door outside the conference room.

Everyone couldn't help but pause, and after Lin Lunming answered, a man with glasses hurriedly walked in with a laptop and said with a solemn expression: "Chairman, I have to interrupt your meeting, because we have a big 0 trouble." ”

"What's the situation?"

Seeing that the person who came was the leader of a technical group of the company and one of the few programming experts in the company, Fu Dong couldn't help but sink in his heart and took the lead in asking.

"Someone is exposing the vulnerabilities of our 'Kirin version 7.0' operating system on the [Computer Enthusiast Forum], and after the detection of our technical team, the nine vulnerabilities that have been released by the other party are all true, and the entire forum has exploded!"

"What!"

There was a burst of exclamations in the conference room, and everyone realized the seriousness of the problem.

After the glasses man quickly placed the notebook in front of Lin Lunming, Fu Dong and the others could still sit still, and they all hurriedly stood up one by one and came to Lin Lunming's side to look at it.

The notebook brought by the man with glasses not only kept the original post of the [Computer Enthusiast Forum], but also the analysis report that their technical team had just tested.

After a few minutes of carefully reading everything, several high-level beacon leaders in the conference room stood there like chickens for a long time before they exchanged glances with a little horror and uneasiness.

There is no need for words, everyone present understands that they have a big 0 in trouble!