21 September, 2002.

Saturday.

Three o'clock in the morning.

After more than ten days of liver explosion, he finally completed the full development of the maple leaf network management, Jiang Feng stretched his waist, his eyes were red, his spirit was exhausted, and the days of the program ape were indeed not capable of ordinary people, and they were too energy-consuming.

Jiang Feng secretly decided that in the future, he would try to minimize his own liver explosion and write code, so as to prevent baldness before old age and avoid serious overdraft of life and physical vitality.

In order to prevent the results from being stolen, Jiang Feng carried out obfuscation encryption while completing the source code, carried out secondary encryption after the compilation and connection were completed, and encrypted the environment when packaging and generating software.

With Jiang Feng's encryption technology, he was very sure that no one should be able to decipher his source code at present, at least for a certain period of time, the source code of the Maple Leaf Network Management was safe, which was enough for Jiang Feng to operate and cash out.

Before the development of the Maple Leaf Network Management, Jiang Feng had already planned, that is, to attract attention, and then package and sell, with the powerful functions of the Maple Leaf Network Management, there is no need to worry about no one wanting, and even selling one or two million is not a problem.

Jiang Feng also has an alternative plan, that is, to find angel investors, open his own company, and finance operations.

In fact, if you come to the company by yourself and finance the operation, you will definitely earn more, but the effect is slow, which is obviously not suitable for Jiang Feng at this time, so he is more inclined to package and sell it to make a fortune.

After a brief movement, Jiang Feng returned to the computer again, upgraded the firewall of his computer, patched the obvious vulnerabilities of the system, and then hung up the overseas proxy.

Re-register a QQ number, hang it in the lower left corner of the Maple Leaf network management client interface, and indicate the words "please contact for business cooperation".

After operating these, Jiang Feng released the free trial version of Maple Leaf Network Management to the websites of major software publishing platforms, and Maple Leaf Network Management was officially launched.

After operating these, Jiang Feng also published some of the posts he had prepared before on major forums and portals.

In this era, there is little content on the Internet, large and small, no matter what kind of content the website has, it has precipitated a large number of users.

Therefore, Jiang Feng is not worried that the Maple Leaf Network Management will be silent, and the aroma of wine is not afraid of deep alleys, so he doesn't plan to hype it himself, and he doesn't have this fund to operate.

Good products need time for users to discover and experience continuously, Jiang Feng just needs to wait for the Internet to ferment with peace of mind.

After those who need it experience Maple Leaf Network Management, he believes that those Internet café management software practitioners with a keen sense of smell will definitely be eager to contact him.

Jiang Feng, who was mentally exhausted, was shrouded in drowsiness as soon as he relaxed, and he didn't bother to take a shower, so he threw himself on the bed and soon fell asleep.

The time quietly came to six o'clock, when Jiang Feng was sleepwalking in Zhougong, far away in an office building in Dongpu New District, Shanghai, located on the fifth floor of the computer room of Longke Software Company, a group of servers were running, and two staff members were on duty.

They are Chen Shichun and Zhang Shuzhi, staff members of the maintenance department of Longke Computer Technology Co., Ltd., who are on duty, from 10 o'clock in the evening to 8 o'clock in the morning yesterday, responsible for the maintenance of Longke network management software and servers.

Longke Computer Technology Co., Ltd., founded in 2000, has been committed to the research and development of Internet café management software since its inception, and has a number of leading technologies.

Longke is one of the network management software with the highest market share, providing services for more than 70,000 large and medium-sized Internet cafes and nearly 8 million computers.

Longke network management version 2.0 adopts two modes of annual or monthly payment, with an annual subscription of 5,000 yuan and a monthly subscription of 600 yuan, and the annual income is estimated to reach 30 million.

Longke network management version 2.0, the technology is relatively mature, has been running stably, maintenance management is relatively relaxed, generally nothing to do, both overtime allowance can be received, and can be compensated during the day, maintenance department staff prefer to be on duty at night.

Chen Shichun was dozing off, and Zhang Shuzhi was bored scrolling through the Tianya forum, and inadvertently swiped the post posted by the "early bird": "A senior Internet café owner reluctantly recommends a free Internet café management software that makes people cry".

At first, Zhang Shuzhi thought it was the "old bird who got up early" who was sensationalizing and winning attention, but he didn't care.

Zhang Shuzhi still clicked on it casually, quickly browsed it, and suddenly his face was pale, like being struck by lightning, numb from head to toe.

Big trouble!

This is Zhang Shuzhi's first thought, if it is not done well, Longke Network Management will have to die, and he will have to find a job again.

Zhang Shuzhi hurriedly called up the background management data of Longke network management, and quickly inquired, sure enough, the active users of Longke network management decreased by more than 5,000.

From the release of the Maple Leaf Network Management to the present, it has only been about two hours, and nearly 50 Internet cafes have uninstalled the Longke Network Management.

The problem is very serious, Zhang Shuzhi was flustered, hurriedly woke up Chen Shichun, and briefly explained the situation.

The two began to divide labor and cooperate, and began to follow the emergency plan, Zhang Shuzhi was responsible for notifying the management, and Chen Shichun was responsible for continuing to track and collect the information of the Maple Leaf Network Management.

Zhang Shuzhi picked up the phone, first called the department head, and after connecting, he made a detailed report on the situation since the release of the Maple Leaf Network Management.

After the head of the maintenance department hurriedly reported to the general manager, he let Zhang Shuzhi know that the middle-level and above cadres would immediately go to the company to hold an emergency meeting.

After receiving the instructions, Zhang Shuzhi began to notify the middle-level and above cadres one by one.

Chen Shichun collected all the news related to Maple Leaf Network Management on major websites, saved the screenshots, and then downloaded and installed the free trial version of Maple Leaf Network Management, conducted experience evaluation, and wrote a preliminary evaluation report.

After the experience, tens of thousands of nests of grass in Chen Shichun's heart roared by, it was too shocking, the functions of the maple leaf network management are too powerful, there are many functions that even the development department did not expect, some functions have been included in the next development plan, but because the technical problems have not been solved, they have not been developed.

The Maple Leaf Network Manager threw the Longke Network Manager several streets, and directly pressed it to the ground and rubbed it, it felt like an adult fighting with a primary school student, it was simply too bullying, and he didn't even have the ability to fight back, only the life of being beaten passively.

Internet practitioners in this era are still more conscientious and dedicated, because the Internet is developing rapidly, the market information is changing, and science and technology are changing with each passing day.

Often a good idea can bring a company back to life that is facing bankruptcy, and a mistake can make a thriving enterprise go bankrupt and go bankrupt.

Therefore, the middle-level and above cadres of Longke Company rushed to the company as soon as they received the call, and after understanding the situation, they notified all the staff of the department to go to the company in advance.

Half past seven in the morning.

All departments of Longke Company are busy, especially the R&D department, and a large group of young and middle-aged program apes with sparse hair are trying to crack the Maple Leaf Network Management.

In the large conference room, all the middle-level and above managers have been in place, and an emergency meeting is being held, which is presided over by the general manager, and Chen Shichun and Zhang Shuzhi also attended the meeting.

General Manager Zhang Zhaoping sat on the main seat, with a gloomy face, and said: "Summoning everyone in such a hurry, everyone must have a rough understanding of what happened, and then let Chen Shichun and Zhang Shuzhi report to everyone in detail from beginning to end." ”

Zhang Shuzhi connected the prepared laptop to the projector, and presented the screenshots of the free trial version 2.0 of the Maple Leaf Network Management collected from the websites of major software release platforms, major web portals, and major forums to the participants one by one, and Chen Shichun cooperated with Zhang Shuzhi Jiang to make a report on what happened in the morning.

"At more than five o'clock in the morning, when I routinely checked the background data of Longke Network Management Version 2.0, I found that the background data was abnormal, and the active users did not rise but declined, and it has been declining continuously."

"Faced with this situation, Shuzhi and I hurriedly checked the software and found that everything was normal and there was no problem with the software."

"Since it's not the software itself, it's almost certain that it's an external factor."

"We searched the major web portals, software release platform websites, and major forum websites, and finally found the root cause of the problem."

"At about four o'clock in the morning, the websites of major software publishing platforms have successively released free trial versions of Maple Leaf Network Management."

"At around five o'clock in the morning, a netizen on the Tianya Forum posted a post recommending free Internet café management software, which was quickly forwarded, which made the free trial version of Maple Leaf Network Management completely popular."

"I tested it, and this software is really powerful, and our software is like a kindergarten child meeting a college student in front of him, and it is not of an order of magnitude at all."

"By the time the conference began, the software had been downloaded more than 10,000 times, and we had lost more than 30,000 active users, which is equivalent to more than 100 medium-sized Internet cafes, and this number is still rising."

"We're done."

After listening to their reports, the whole venue was silent, and everyone looked incredible, at first they thought that they had just met a strong opponent, and they were not so nervous.

Now, everyone's faces are pale, and their faces are at the extreme, such a powerful Internet café management software has not yet been officially operated, and it has already had such a great destructive power, constantly squeezing the market share of Longke network management.

If capital intervenes and starts formal operation, as long as the operator is not brain-dead, he will continue to run for free to accumulate user precipitation and establish a complete operation system, it is estimated that it will not be long before he can sweep the entire Internet café market and monopolize the entire industry.

At that time, the Maple Leaf Network Management is a gold-swallowing beast, and it is difficult to make money or not.

Moreover, the network management software market is relatively closed, and the cake is only so big, if a monopoly is formed, there should not be too many competitors in the later stage.

At that time, Longke is not far from going out of business, and everyone will have to roll up and leave and rejoin the army of job hunting.

At the beginning, Longke network management quickly seized the market with free operation, knocked down countless peers, and stepped on their corpses to start, and now, they are also hit by the crit of free operation, or the kind that kills with a blow.

Zhang Zhaoping's face was pale, and he said in a low voice: "Our company is already at a critical juncture of life and death, and I hope everyone will work together to think about how to deal with it in order to get through the difficulties." ”