Coquettish Rebirth

To be honest with Ken Olsen, if he were walking on the street, Jia Hongjian would never think that this old man was a billionaire!The old man Ken Olsen sitting opposite Jia Hongjian was wearing a non-branded cotton checked shirt, a pair of jeans, and a big general belly, with a fisherman hat on his head to hide the Mediterranean Sea, to be honest , Let alone in the United States, if it is put in China, it is just a common old man in a community in the 21st century!

This Olsen is worth billions, but the watches, ties, tie buckles, belts, and even leather shoes, etc., do not look like famous brands, as if they are cheap clothes bought casually in supermarkets in later generations. "Okay, young man, what do you want to know?" The ordinary-looking old man asked Jia Hongjian with a smile.

"Hehe, I just want to ask you what kind of business this ams company is now..." Jia Hongjian said with a smile.As soon as he uttered this question, Olsen was a little surprised, "Huh? You didn't ask me what I think of dec? Not bad! You're not like a reporter. After the reporters came, they knew to ask me about dec one by one. I don't want to talk about dec. And I still maintain my opinion on pc decades ago, pc will lead to the decline of the computer market! Real pc doesn't exist at all!"

Hearing what the old man said, Jia Hongjian was a little confused!This old man Olsen, wouldn't that lead to the decline of the computer market?If he is not optimistic about PC, why does he want to do this business?And according to Bill Gates, the old man is still working in the computer business.So is this old man an idiot?While despising the computer industry, he is working hard in the computer industry at the same time - you must know that he is not a dick, nor is he short and poor!He has a family of billions of dollars, a beautiful wife and a beautiful family, and a lot of children and grandchildren. Such an old man doesn't like the computer industry and insists on entering and developing. Isn't that awkward?

But at this moment, I only heard the old man Olson say, "PC is now a group of profiteers manipulating the market. It's like changing the rhythm of left hand for right hand. This is completely wrong. The real PC should be sold to users by our manufacturers. After that, users don't need to change their computers for 20 years to meet their needs! But now look at it. Those pc manufacturers sell expensive machines to consumers. But consumers can't meet their needs with their machines .Even hardware vendors and software vendors have joined forces to continuously push up the threshold, causing consumers to change their computers every few years. This is simply shit..."

Yo?The old man's words... are interesting!Of course Jia Hongjian understood the meaning of the old man's words. The old man was obviously criticizing "Andy Bill's game" - Andy is the boss of Intel, and Bill is Bill Gates, which means that Bill Gates developed a new system, Raise the entry threshold of the system, and then Andy can sell new CPUs smoothly, and then Bill will upgrade again, and Andy will also upgrade again.

This kind of game is very cost-effective for both hardware manufacturers and software manufacturers-no one is a philanthropist, and it is not good for anyone to make an "unbreakable bowl".After all, no matter whether it is a hardware manufacturer or a software manufacturer, it is best to do the best at one time, ensuring that consumers will not update within 20 years. Consumers are happy, and manufacturers sell their products immediately, but what about after it is fully popularized?For example, Intel and Microsoft have developed something that will not need to be replaced within 20 years.Then after selling it all over the world and making a lot of money, what will they do in the next 20 years?What are you selling?Will there always be huge new markets being developed every year?

So for many manufacturers, selling some controllable defective products is the best way to ensure that they can make money every year!Just like Jia Hongjian once heard about the electronic products made by Sony, the warranty is two years, and after two years, it will be broken, so that consumers will need to upgrade and spend money, and then Sony will have another A small amount of money came in!

From this point of view, Jia Hongjian can clearly find that this old man Olsen is probably a die-hard technical expert, or to put it more "humanly", that is, this old man is a stubborn technician !Although he may have a good technical level, he definitely doesn't understand business!

Even this old man may have been thinking all his life to make a product that will not need to be updated for 20 years, but he probably never thought that if he made this product, what would his company rely on for the next 20 years!

Just when Jia Hongjian was judging who the old man was, the old man continued to talk, "The current PC is a short-lived, not cheap, and not so accurate machine. Actually, I really don't want to call them computers. A real computer should be used to connect people together, and then everyone can use the machine to work for the organization. The current PC is just an interesting entertainment machine. So now I have established ams, and what I want to do is a company-customized computer without any entertainment functions. With this computer, it can give full play to the Internet function and connect everyone's machines like dec in the 80s. work together……"

Hearing this, why did Jia Hongjian suddenly realize that this idea sounds like a diskless workstation?Diskless workstations are the most common thing on the Internet in later generations-in fact, there is no hard disk in each computer on the Internet. At most, it is just a small C disk for installing the system. Games and the like are all installed in the server of the Internet.When a certain machine needs to play some game, the machine is temporarily transferred from the service station.

Such a workstation, in fact, Huaxia Gaoke has built a similar thing in the company, but due to the slow development of network cards in this era, and the hard disk speed and capacity are too small, it is still necessary to make a diskless workstation. Install some basic data and software on each machine, while the workstations are mostly used for information transmission and internal communication.

In Jia Hongjian's view, a real diskless workstation can really be achieved to the point of science fiction - just a monitor, plus something like a set-top box, that's enough.In other words, it is actually similar to the so-called cloud computing. Everything is calculated and responded on the server, and finally returned to the display, and what the set-top box does is to upload some local operation requests!

By this time, Jia Hongjian understood what Olsen's "Advanced Modular Solutions" company was researching. To put it bluntly, wasn't it researching diskless workstations?To put it bluntly, don’t you just want to further purify the mainframe with the first network interconnection work coordination function in 80, and make it into a diskless workstation to customize it for corporate users!If the hardware for this kind of thing is complete, to be honest, a network administrator of a network in the future will be able to do it.But now, after all, there is no corresponding hardware. It can be said that this old man Olsen needs to design and manufacture everything from scratch.From this point of view, the so-called "modular solution" of this diskless workstation is quite worth investing in!

So, in the middle of the old man's narration, while the old man was drinking coffee, Jia Hongjian simply interjected, "I sound like your idea is quite interesting, hey, Olsen, do you need investment?" ?”

"Investment?" Olson was stunned.His ams company has been here for four or five years, but it has been losing money.It can be said that he is spending his own savings every moment of every day, but he is a billionaire himself, so he doesn't care about this.But if there is a personal stake, people will start to care about this issue? "Well, to be honest, this company is still losing money, so if I were you, I would take back the idea of ​​investing, hehe..."

Ouch, this old man is quite interesting!He rejected Jia Hongjian's investment in this way, which made Jia Hongjian more interested in learning about this company! "Really? I heard that your company's plan is very interesting. There should be more market in the future. Why are you still losing money now? Is it because of technical problems with personnel? Do you hire college students? Not enough technology?"

"No, no, those who followed me were all loyal veterans in dec. I wanted to start a company here. After more than 80 of them found out, they resigned and came to me to start a business with me. Their technology is absolutely No problem, the main thing is the market. When our company was still a small company, it was obviously not so easy to sell our products. But I have money, so I don’t have to worry about losing money. I can wait for the sales to come out. ..."

"Well, I have a feeling, Olsen, you're a mad scientist, and what you've come up with is very interesting, but if you're going to sell it, I think you need a partner, someone who knows what it is. A partner who can help you sell. And it just so happens that I happen to be such a person... Besides, whether you agree to let me invest or not, I have one business... No, I want to give you two , that is Huaxia Hi-Tech and Sherlock Holmes, the diskless workstation systems of these two companies are built, I need you to design and manufacture the required hardware from scratch..."

Jia Hongjian said with a smile, and across from him was Ken Olsen who was stunned. (To be continued..)