Riding the wind of rebirth

“Such an environment is unfavorable for the development of the information industry,” Zhou Zhi said. “And the current situation is difficult to change, so we need to put more thought into incubation.”

"Now Clover Group has the capability in the industry to discover potential small and medium-sized groups through patent intelligence research, make angel investments, and most importantly, integrate the incubated products into Clover's relatively mature product ecosystem, so that they can achieve profitability in advance and not be taken away by pirated products."

The principle is very simple. Take chat software, for example. There are many chat software programs available now, and many organizations can even set up their own chat tool servers. However, these tools have a problem: first, they can only be used within a local area network; second, maintenance personnel cannot guarantee their security, posing a risk of information leakage; and third, they are not organically integrated with the work scenario, becoming a good tool for everyone to slack off at work. With them, the organization's labor productivity does not increase but decreases, and hidden dangers increase.

However, if a small group develops a chat tool that is valued by Clover and acquired, the situation is different.

Clover Group has been providing enterprise e-commerce solutions since its earliest days in the convenience store system. It offers a comprehensive range of solutions for email, workflow design, e-conference, and office tool packages.

Within a local area network, chat tools serve as a convenient medium for team communication within an enterprise. With the backing of Clover Group, they become secure and trustworthy. They can be organically integrated with mature business scenarios and can greatly improve the efficiency of internal personnel management, business meeting organization, group work discussions, workflow design, and even product submission and financial solution resolution, turning a "slacking-off" software into a true "performance growth engine."

On the Internet, this tool's user accounts can be divided into real-name and unreal-name accounts. Unreal-name accounts can be used on various free websites, while real-name accounts can be used with portal websites, various paid websites, and even linked to the newly launched digital currency bank cards. With the addition of mobile phone SMS and ETOKEN LCD token authentication mechanisms, it can meet the needs of various online consumption scenarios.

Teng Tsai, one of the two Mas, is now collaborating with several major mobile communication companies under the leadership of the Clover Group.

"Overall, we are now in a situation where we have made full preparations for the start, and what remains is the process of continuous promotion and overtaking on the curves." Zhou Zhi is very confident: "We can take multiple measures at the same time to achieve specific breakthroughs."

"The first path has limited compatibility. To achieve a 'bridge ecosystem' at the system level, we need to be able to quickly adapt to applications across operating system layers," Zhou Zhi said. "This path has two directions. One is to use the 'system box' developed from our mature virtual environment technology, which can flexibly and conveniently build iOS and Windows virtual environments on top of the autonomous system, allowing users to install and run iOS and Windows programs without any noticeable difference."

"Another direction is that we provide a 'compilation box' for all application development partners. On this platform, our application development partners can compile their source code developed based on iOS and Windows environments into applications suitable for their own systems within the environment we provide."

"The last one was alright, but this next direction is promising!" Hu Changfeng slammed his hand on the table: "Can you guys do it now?"

“We’ve mastered the Windows system, and we’ve achieved full compatibility with the compilation environment,” Zhou Zhi said with a smile. “We haven’t fully broken through the Apple environment yet because their operating system is relatively closed, but it’s not a big problem, because programs that can run on Apple basically have a set of versions adapted for the Windows environment.”

"However, neither of these two solutions is the ultimate goal. Although they can quickly solve the problem of application shortage, long-term reliance on them may lead to technological path lock-in. Our ultimate goal is to break away from these two solutions and achieve the transition to native applications of our own system."

"We have the platform ready, featuring the latest domestically developed Linux system, which we've named CHNUX, meaning China's UNIX. Based on this operating system, we've deployed basic development environments such as VC++, JAVA, and Hanwen Graph Database, providing a powerful and comprehensive R&D environment for our graphical and network-based development partners. We also provide official development templates and debugging tools, significantly improving development efficiency." "Furthermore, we've prepared cross-platform development framework support, promoting deep adaptation of frameworks like JAVA to the domestic system, reducing cross-platform development costs for developers. We also provide official development templates and debugging tools, significantly improving development efficiency."

"This is a true self-built ecosystem, a positive cycle."

"Similarly, subsidizing ecosystem builders is not our goal. Our goal is to truly achieve a 'win-win' situation."

"Our developer incentive program will also shift from simple financial support and subsidies to a deeper, multi-level, and comprehensive decision-making reference-based incentive approach, including traffic support, technical empowerment, community operation, toolchain improvement, policy and market synergy, assessment of the leverage effect of government procurement policies, and promotion of industry alliance standards."

"You guys really have big ambitions." Hu Changfeng was shocked by the scene Zhou Zhi described. To really achieve this, the manpower and resources required, the product lines that need to be developed, and the intervention, promotion and driving of the entire industry and its spillover effects on the overall national labor productivity would all be enormous.

Come to think of it, if the pie isn't big enough, how can we live up to the country's painstaking efforts in designating the information industry as a pillar industry?

"That is, the development of the operating system ecosystem can be divided into five stages according to the consensus reached within our group: initial, development, maturity, advanced and excellence. As things stand, we are still at the stage between the initial and development stages, and there is still a long way to go."

"At the very least, we believe that an ecosystem can be considered mature only when it has a stable development, regulation, and commercialization system, and members form a sense of belonging and actively participate in ecosystem governance. And only when it has a broad user base, an active developer community, and strong software and hardware compatibility can it be considered advanced."

"If we compare it to this standard, the maturity of our self-developed system's ecosystem, whether on the desktop or the server side, faces severe challenges and urgently needs to be overcome."

"What we discussed so far is just the question of whether it exists or not. If we continue to discuss the system's stability and security, the inadequacy of the adaptation between the general ecosystem and the specialized ecosystem, the shortcomings in internationalization capabilities, and the doubts about the developer ecosystem, to be honest, although we have done forward-looking and planned research in our own research report, it would be a bit too ambitious for us to report to you now. We are not there yet."

Hu Changfeng said with a wry smile, "If even you Clover fans think it's not that difficult, then I guess I know how difficult this matter is."

"There are difficulties, but everything is ready. Now, with the support of the 'pillar industry' policy, we are very optimistic about the future." (End of Chapter)