On April 30, 2003, a month after the Sony shock and the dragon shock turmoil, during this time, Bill Gates tried every means to release and display new products and announce Microsoft's new research and development plan, in order to save people's confidence in Microsoft company.

But an unfortunate news came, the famous American game production company Electronic-Arts in the NASDAQ stock market suffered huge losses, coupled with the company's performance declining year by year over the years, after the listing of Longteng's DC2, shareholders lost hope in EA, EA has filed for bankruptcy, the court has initiated protection procedures, and is actively looking for a buyer.

The global game industry is in an uproar, the game giants who once called for wind and rain in the United States, the visionary pioneers who once founded CPL, and the PC game leaders who once created excellent works such as "Command and Conquer", "Dune 2", "FIFA" and "NBALive", even couldn't escape the deterrence of the Dragon DC2 listing and killing all sides, and it didn't survive until it reached the point of filing for bankruptcy before it reached the point of filing for bankruptcy!

Yang Yun heard the news before going to bed, the mobile phone phone in the study rang, it was a special ringtone, he knew that it must be an important thing to call so late, and sure enough, this was a long-distance call from Jiang Shaoyun directly from North America.

"Mr. Yang, EA has filed for bankruptcy! Do we want to buy? Jiang Shaoyun was a little excited.

Yang Yun's breath stagnated, but he still said calmly: "What step has the bankruptcy procedure entered?" Can an acquisition be split? I'm afraid that EA's big shelf is worth hundreds of millions of dollars, but unfortunately I don't need those garbage games and fixed assets, I only fancy one EA-Sports. In addition, if the employees of Ximu are still around, I want them to come and do things for me. ”

Jiang Shaoyun said: "EA-Sports is definitely the most sought-after independent sub-brand. The vast majority of the EA's value is on this, and it is estimated that the price is quite high. The court should be going to tie up some other junk game rights, and I'll do my best to make sure of that. As for Nishimutou, according to exact information, they have already jumped ship half a month ago and signed a contract with Microsoft's gaming division. ”

Ximu signed with Microsoft again?

Yang Yun was a little regretful: "Hey, for Ximutou, I really cherish talents, I am very optimistic about their "Command and Conquer" series, and I am confident that this series will be a high-quality game that can enter the WCG." Why can't they figure it out? Is it that jumping under me to develop a game is much worse than Microsoft? Microsoft Gaming is the next EA, and they don't think about it either! ”

Jiang Shaoyun also sighed: "Who said it wasn't!" Oh yes, Brown called me and asked if KTT would take the opportunity to buy EA as a whole and go public directly in the US? ”

It's listed again......

Yang Yun is very satisfied with the status quo, even if their mention is in the US stock market, and his vest KTT company is secretly operating, he does not want to go public because he does not need financing. There is no need to be exposed to the public supervision mechanism, so he simply rejected this suggestion, and asked Jiang Shaoyun to inquire more about the news of splitting EA's high-quality game copyright assets, and report to him in detail the next day.

Lie down on the chuang. Yang Yun's eyes widened, and he looked at the ceiling in a daze by the dim night light of the bedroom.

Among European and American companies in the game industry. French Ubisoft has been continuously suppressed in the securities market and has long lost its competitiveness. Their advantageous educational game software has become a waste product that no one cares about under the impact of the Dragon Games education platform, and Ubisoft has long lost its title as the largest video game publisher in Europe.

The other one is EA. He and EA from a friendly partnership ten years ago, gradually turned into a competitive relationship, and finally became a mortal enemy, you live and die, and then today EA collapsed, and he stands tall, he is the winner.

It seems that there is one opponent left in European and American countries, that is, Microsoft Games, as long as you get down to Microsoft, there is basically no competitor worth seeing in the world.

At this time, it was late at night in China, Yang Yun was thinking about how to calculate Bill Gates, and the United States was on the other side of the world during the day, and Bill Gates was also secretly cursing Yang Yun, and the two sneezed almost at the same time.

In the first half of 2003, Microsoft was sniped by all sides in a number of software sub-industries, which can be described as a wolf attack.

The biggest impact is that XBox has been hit by DC2, and before the good days of their game department have passed, Xbox's advantage is gone, and DC2 has blasted them to the ground.

Microsoft violated labor laws for the first time and actively forced the R&D engineers of the game department to work overtime, Bill Gates released cruel words, if you can't get out of Xbox360 a year ago, the relevant person in charge will be fired, and even the entire game department may be laid off!

The Microsoft engineers who were threatened by their survival really felt the anger of Bill Gates this time, and they also saw the cruelty of the modern video game market, and realized that Microsoft was in a state of not breaking and not standing, and without Microsoft, all of them would be finished, so even if they didn't say the above, they also worked research and development, and the Microsoft game department worked together to make the final blow.

The second one that has been impacted is the WindowsCE series of operating systems, there are already quite a lot of smartphones, mobile terminal devices, and portable computers around the world that are using the Android operating system, Apple's OS-X operating system, and Microsoft almost lost the original absolute dominance of WindowsCE, which is now 50:50.

The third software company that has caused Microsoft the most headache about operating systems is SUN, which is the one they used to fear the most.

At its peak, in 2000, SUN had a market capitalization of $200 billion, tens of thousands of employees around the world, and its most powerful product was the famous JAVA language and their own Solaris operating system.

Unfortunately, in 2001, the IT industry of the network company bubble guide zhì was greatly impacted, and SUN, which is mainly engaged in enterprise-level computer hardware, saw a sharp decline in sales and collapsed in this year, and several senior vice presidents, CFOs, COOs, technical directors and others jumped ship, the company laid off more than 40,000 employees, many office buildings were sold, and the stock price plummeted, and it took only one year to lose the market value of more than 200 billion US dollars to only a few billion US dollars, which is embarrassing.

Nowadays, the Solaris operating system is at the end of the road, but the JAVA language in 2002 was reborn, JAVA found a new fertile soil, it has become the most suitable development language for the Android operating system, the application UI part of the Android smart device APP layer code is written in JAVA, and C and C++ need to use other methods to call, the core part of the implementation of guòJAVA.

After Nokia announced that its mobile phones support JAVA, LongGamePhone became the first high-end and high-selling combination of Android and JAVA on behalf of smartphones, which made JAVA a sweet spot for a while, and more and more engineers began to regain interest in this declining SUN company, and they picked up the abandoned JAVA language and made various applications on the JAVA platform.

DC2 USES OS-X OPERATING SYSTEM, ALTHOUGH IT IS A FULLY ENCLOSED INDEPENDENT SYSTEM, BUT AT LEAST IT LEAVES JAVA A BREATHER AND HOPE FOR THE FUTURE, EVERYONE IS UNIX OPERATING SYSTEM, THIS IS THE SAME ROOT, ONLY GOOD FOR JAVA, NOT HARMLESS.

So in 2003, JAVA had its second spring, and they received a venture capital from Taiwan, China, and launched a landmark version - JavaSE 5.0!

Bill Gates has a splitting headache at the thought of these competitors.

"Bastard...... Software has OS-X, Android, JAVA platforms and languages, more and more application manufacturers are launching non-Windows versions, hardware has Longteng TV game consoles, Apple's MAC machines, and even Dell and Lenovo China are planning to sell Unix systems! ”

"And Oracle10g, which Oracle just released, and they also want to compete with us on the digital library! Do they still want to replace our SQL? "Bill Gates feels disgusted when he thinks of Oracle's face, Oracle10g has just been launched, and Oracle has expressed strong support for JAVA, which is simply a provocation by Chiguoguo.

Oracle's Oracle systems generally run on large Unix systems, and these servers basically do not use the Windows operating system, which is also the enterprise server segment that Microsoft covets.

In general, Microsoft is surrounded by many parties, and it has not been without many enemies before, but in 2003, Bill Gates felt uncomfortable and wrong, and there was a feeling as if the world was about to fall.

"Isn't there a way for Microsoft to crack it?" Bill Gates looked at Microsoft, which was surrounded on all sides, and he drew a lot of competitor names on the paper, and eventually, his pen stopped at the name of a company and muttered, "Dragon Games...... It seems that you are connecting this qiē! ”

Yang Yun would not admit it, he would never admit this kind of conspiracy, just like when he hurriedly met with David Cooper, the head of SUN's Asia region the next day, he would not mention his idea to outsiders.

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PS: December has passed again.,Tomorrow's New Year's Day.,It's also my birthday.,Actually, I'd love to have a day off hehe.,That's it.,Put the manuscript tomorrow.,It's all over.,About seven or eight chapters.,That's it.。

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