Chapter 426: The Key to the European Market
When Chang Haonan finished his day's work and was about to pack up and go home, he saw Yang Huimei again at the door of the office.
"Professor Yang?"
He was a little surprised to see each other for the second time in a day.
Since the office location of the torch company itself has not yet been determined, although the two are in the same Beijing Aviation University, the office locations are not close to each other, not to mention that Yang Huimei has a teaching position in addition to the work here, so if there is no major event, it is generally contacted by phone or sent someone to convey it on her behalf.
"Jinling Automobile faxed us a document asking if we needed to advertise in Europe."
Yang Huimei said as she took out a few stacked pieces of paper from her bag and handed them to Chang Haonan:
"I received it just in time before I got off work, so I sent it by the way, you can see how you reply, and I'll get back to them after I get to work tomorrow."
"Advertising in Europe?"
The latter was stunned for a moment.
He did have the idea to bring the TORCH Multiphysics software to the international market, but it was too early to start investing heavily in advertising.
On the one hand, even the localization of the original user reputation and related manual documents has not been completed, and on the other hand, the company is not so rich now.
The little money in the account is enough to look at in China, but it can hardly be converted into foreign currency.
What's more, how does this matter have anything to do with Jinling Automobile?
Curious, Chang Haonan took the fax from Yang Huimei's hand, turned around and returned to the office.
Compared with the official letter in the morning, the fax was much more casual in terms of wording and format.
There are many places where Chang Haonan's name is directly written, not the Torch Company.
It even feels a bit like a personal letter between the CEOs of two companies.
It stands to reason that an old state-owned enterprise like Jinling Automobile should not make this kind of mistake.
However, after seeing the end of a letter, Chang Haonan quickly understood the difference:
"I'll you...... Italians are really willing to do that......"
He looked up again and leaned back into the back of his office chair.
In the morning, I asked if the software could be used in the joint venture organization, so that in case of an accident in the future, I could take it out and throw it off, so I naturally had to go through the most formal process, and even send the original by official letter.
But this time, it's pulling the relationship.
It's not just Jinling Automobile that is getting closer to the Torch Company.
It is still Li Liangyi who is getting closer to Chang Haonan.
Use the resources of the enterprise to send their own favors, and the old fritters belong to yes.
Of course, Chang Haonan must still grasp this kind of opportunity:
"You can ask for this advertising space, but don't be too anxious, you can reply to them tomorrow afternoon or the day after tomorrow."
However, he also knows that he can't owe such a thing as a human debt, so he has to pay something back:
"Also, tell them that we don't want this advertising space in vain, we can sign a three-party sponsorship contract, wait until TORCH Multiphysics is officially released, give them some discounts on the price of use, and allow them to send a few technicians to our company every year for further training."
After giving that lecture this morning, Chang Haonan also realized that his software is okay for technical personnel in universities and research institutes, but it may indeed be a bit out of line for Chinese enterprise users at the turn of the century.
Although the number of undergraduate and graduate students has been expanding since the beginning of the new century, the average student level is actually increasing due to the rapid development of overall scientific and technological strength.
Around 2000, I was able to graduate with a Ph.D. in using fluent to make a very simple equipment parts optimization for enterprises.
In 2020, this level can be used as a master's thesis, and you have to rely on the face of the supervisor to pass the test.
Therefore, Chang Haonan has begun to consider the problem of talent training.
After all, he relies on the Institute of Computing of the Academy of Sciences and Jinghang University at the same time, and there is no shortage of relevant resources.
Industry-university-research cooperation will be a very important trend in the next few years.
However, Yang Huimei still frowned after hearing this.
After all, she has been in charge of foreign trade negotiations for a long time, and she knows more about foreign affairs than ordinary people:
"Mr. Chang, are the conditions we give out a little too high? The other party didn't mention the matter of the three-party contract, maybe he was just ready to take this opportunity as a favor. ”
"Although the F1 project is very popular in Europe, no one pays attention to it in China, and it is impossible for Jinling Automobile to enter the European market in a short period of time, which is a chicken rib for them."
Chang Haonan waved his hand:
"Although our company has just started and the scale is very small, we still have to do a good job in the formalization construction, otherwise it will be too troublesome if something happens in the future."
"This advertising space is really not of much value to them, but software licensing and technical personnel training will not incur any additional costs for us, and we can be regarded as an equivalent exchange for each other."
"Plus, I bet."
Chang Haonan stretched out his finger and gently tapped on the table:
"This is the key to our company's entry into the European market."
He's taking advantage of being a reborn.
While Scuderia Ferrari has been a circus in the last two seasons, they will soon be the most successful F1 team in history with six consecutive Constructors' Titles and five Drivers' Championships.
At that point, an indefinite advertising space, if not as dominant as Marlboro or Shell, will definitely be worth a lot.
And, that's not all.
This fax just now made Chang Haonan probably guess the reason why Fiat was so eager to cooperate in the establishment of an automobile research institute.
And it is also mentioned that the official name of this institution will be the Ferrari Research Center of Jinling.
And not Fiat.
After making Todd the team manager, he even excluded Montzemorro, the head of Fiat and Ferrari, from the team's operations, which was one of the main reasons why the Prancing Horse dynasty was later established.
Since there is so much F1-related content to be included in the cooperation agreement, it is already obvious what the institute wants to study.
Although in the late 90s, the restrictions on budget caps and wind tunnel equipment had not yet been passed, even the major teams had limited funds at their disposal.
Not to mention the limitation of the time window.
Therefore, having a high-performance aerodynamics and structural mechanics calculation software is definitely twice the result with half the effort for the development of new cars.
This time it's Ferrari, but what about after that?
Which team doesn't blush when they look at the Prancing Horse Dynasty?
Even in this timeline, Schumacher was still in the heat of his head to hit Villeneuve and was deducted all points, whether he risked crashing himself into a tricycle unnecessarily at Spa, or breaking his leg at Silverstone and withdrawing from the championship......
It was time to win the Constructors' Championship in '99.
You know, Ferrari hasn't won a Constructors' Championship for 14 years and a Drivers' Championship for 18 years.
As a result, the 98 season was replaced with a new R&D tool, and the 99 season won the championship.
What do you mean by immediate?
Who would dare to say that there is nothing to do between these two things?
And there are no secrets in the paddock.
Aerodynamics masters like Rory Byrne or Adrian Newey aren't available, but Farrah's tools are always available.
Not to mention that Jean Todd will also be the president of the International Automobile Federation (FIA) in the future.
If TORCH Multiphysics can be directly identified as the FIA's official CFD tool through this relationship, then the demonstration effect ......
Chang Haonan just thought about it, and the corners of his mouth couldn't be suppressed.
Looking at the confident expression on the face of her boss in front of her, and considering the other party's brilliant achievements in the past year, Yang Huimei decisively changed her position:
"Well, listen to you, I'll get back to them tomorrow afternoon."
(End of chapter)