Rebirth of the Tech Madman

Chapter 30 The 1st Anti-Tang IT Alliance

Tang Huanfare felt that he seemed to suffer from some kind of obsessive-compulsive disorder. The specific manifestation was that in each position of his team, he always wanted to arrange a person with a good face.

But, so far, little progress has been made, and only Simeone is actually included in the account.

As for Wang Xuehong and Wang Xueling, Jian Mingren, they are destined to start their own business with the back of the Nuoda family. What Tang Huan wants is mainly the personal connections, and now that the three of them have already revealed their identities, let alone I am embarrassed to use it uncontrollably.

Fortunately, through a headhunting company, Tang Huan finally discovered a prodigy in company operations that is definitely a potential stock.

This person is John Chambers, born in Charleston, West Virginia, and currently works in IBM’s marketing department. Because he doesn’t adapt to IBM’s rigid work style, he is actively interviewing everywhere and looking for new positions.

After Tang Huan met Chambers with anticipation and confirmed his resume, he finally confirmed that this is the president and CEO of Cisco Systems in the original time and space.

According to the historical development, Chambers worked for three well-known companies.

In 1976, Chambers came to California with a bachelor of business management, a bachelor of law, an MBA in finance and management, and worked for IBM for 7 years.

In 1983, Chambers joined Wang’an Computer Company as the head of marketing and sales, and later rose to senior vice president of the Americas and Asia Pacific. He worked here for 8 years.

In 1991, Chambers was invited to Cisco, and since then began to create a legend.

In 2000, Cisco’s market value was second only to General Electric and Intel, and it surpassed Microsoft for the first time, becoming the most valuable company in the world. It took Microsoft nearly 25 years to climb to this position, while Cisco only took 16 years.

Actually, Tang Huan knew a lot about the little demon who was born in the 1950s and the generals in the 1940s, but he couldn’t just wave his hand to attract his subordinates.

For example, Jeff Immelt, the later chairman and chief executive officer of General Electric, was born in 1956. During his college years, he served as the chairman of a famous brotherhood. He should now be studying for an MBA at Harvard Business School. People mix so well, it’s impossible to come to a small company like Zerone.

Another example is the future CEO of Microsoft, Steve Ballmer, born in 1956. When he was a sophomore at Harvard, he met Bill Gates and became a buddy. Now he should be doing sales at Procter & Gamble. The hope is similarly low.

Therefore, Tang Huan attaches great importance to Chambers, and after some exchanges, he found that this person is indeed very talented in sales and customer service. Together with the technical Simeone, he can share many things for himself.

Chambers was very interested in the vigorous Zerone, and had a good chat with Tang Huan. Since the two sides are very sincere to cooperate, it hit it off. Chambers formally joined Zerone, and Tang Huan acted decisively. It was immediately announced that Chambers became the vice president in charge of operations, and before that, Simeone had served as the vice president in charge of technology.

Tang Huan was very satisfied with the recommendation work of the headhunting company and rewarded the other party with an extra sum of money. At the same time, he asked them to pay attention to American Express to confirm whether there is a person named Louis Gerstner. Undoubtedly, this is Tang. Huan is optimistic about the next goal.

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West Coast of the United States, Monterey County, California, Pacific Grove, a small Victorian building overlooking the waves of Monterey Bay. This is the headquarters of a digital research company that sells the operating system CP?M.

Due to various reasons, the schedule has been changed again and again, and now Tang Huan has finally implemented the plan and visited here in person.

Standing downstairs, Tang Huan looked around. It was a beautiful environment. I have to say that compared to Long Country, which is also known as the vast land but rich in deserts and plateaus in the west, there are more places suitable for human living in the United States.

Most of the people who come in and out here are dressed very casually, barefoot, shorts, hippies, and even a few children run by. This office atmosphere feels a bit funny.

At this time, there was a cry of a baby from the building. Tang Huan, who was about to take a step, couldn’t help but a black line appeared on his forehead. It really made people wonder if Nima is the location of a high-tech company.

But fortunately, Tang Huan quickly found the target person of this trip, the true pioneer of personal computer software development, Gary Kildare with a big beard.

Kildare was born in Seattle in the northwestern United States. He and Gates are hometowns. The two had a good relationship for a while, and they used to drive a sports car together to speed on the highway.

After the Vietnam War began, Kildare enlisted in the army and came to the Naval Graduate School in Monterey to teach computer science until 1972, when the navy service ended. During this period, Kildare mastered a lot of computer technology.

It was also in this year that Kildare came into contact with Intel’s microprocessor 4004 and conducted in-depth research. Intel was also impressed by the various ideas emerging from Kildare, and then hired him as a part-time job. Consultant.

In 1973, Intel’s 8008 microprocessor was successfully developed, and Kildare developed an assembler called PL/M for it.

After that, Kildare replaced paper tape with disks and successfully developed the disk operating system CP/M, and business slowly followed.

Because the hardware architecture of personal computers from different manufacturers is different, it is necessary to customize and modify the CP/M for each customer separately. In order to reduce these boring tasks, Kildare invented an interface that separates the hardware layer from the software layer—BIOS.

In 1976, at the encouragement of his wife Dolucy, Kildare left the Naval Graduate School and formally founded a digital research company. And it is run by Dolucy.

In 1977, Seymour Rubinstein of IMSAI directed a classic business negotiation and purchased a volume license for the CP/M operating system for $25,000.

With more and more personal computers using Intel CPUs, the sales of CP/M have also risen. The Kildares naturally have sufficient funds, so they began to recruit employees and move the office to the current location.

It’s just that the management of the company really doesn’t dare to be complimented. You can’t play with personality like that. No wonder Gates calculated it later, and Tang Hu secretly shook his head.

Kildare is indeed like a legend, very kind, more like a scholar in temperament than a businessman who is skilled in calculations.

After the greeting, Kildare smiled and said, “I heard Rubinstein mentioned you.”

Tang Huan heard this, and his heart sank, “Symour Rubinstein from MicroPro?”

“Yes, that’s him. He just came two days ago.” Kildare nodded and said without any concealment: “Rubinstein believes that your software makes Apple computers occupy the CP/M computer market and harm It’s in everyone’s interest, so he hopes to join hands with me to confront the threat from you.”

paralyzed, this Rubinstein is indeed an old traitor, unable to support the competitiveness of the product, so he began to play a series of commercial methods to deal with himself.

It seems that after Rubinstein got in the way, this trip is going to be a waste of time, and it is even more impossible to reach a cooperation intention.

Although he was annoyed, Tang Huan still hoped to have a frank exchange with Kildare.

“The prerequisite for Rubinstein’s statement to be established is that the personal computer market has reached saturation. But obviously, this is a joke. The development of personal computers is in the ascendant. It can be easily digested. Therefore, those of us who make software have too much room for survival. There is no conflict of interest competing for market share. Instead, we should strengthen cooperation to promote the prosperity of this industry. , CP/M is an important platform for CGrid and WordEasy. Everyone is a partner, so how could it be an opponent. As for which kind of computer sells well, the key depends on the research and development capabilities of those computer manufacturers. Of course, it is undeniable that Rubin recently Stan’s WordStar is indeed competing for WordEasy orders through a low-price strategy.”

Kildare nodded, “What you said makes sense. In fact, I am not interested in what you said about how to operate. I only know that when the product is done, users will naturally like it.”

“It’s a book business.” Although Tang Huan thought so in his heart, he expressed his approval on the surface.

was talking when a young man with glasses walked in.

“My student, Gordon Eubanks, this is Tang Huan who developed CGrid.” Kildare introduced in the middle.

It turned out that this was Eubanks, the genius who developed another kind of BASIC. This man later achieved a lot. He is the co-founder of Symantec, a well-known security solution provider, and Norton is the company’s product.

“You are the anti-Tang alliance established by Rubinstein and the person you want to target.” Eubanks looked at Tang Huan curiously.

“Anti-Tang Alliance? What happened?” Hearing such a lethal word, Tang Huan couldn’t help the spine chill.

“We are going to surf. If you want to know, wait for us to come back or go with us.” Kildare stood up like a naughty child and walked out regardless.

Tang Huan couldn’t help smiling, Nima, he came here in a formal suit, but he was really nervous about the so-called anti-Tang alliance. The name was so scary that he could only bite the bullet and follow.

The feeling of surfing on the sea is really wonderful. UU Reading www.uukanshu.com is no wonder that so many people, especially the rich, are obsessed with this sport. Tang Huan’s previous concerns about gains and losses, unknowingly, disappeared.

Various conspiracies are not the norm in the market.

IBM has staged a good show of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”. An IBM will respond to the collective attack of the seven companies of GE, Honeywell, NCR, RCA, Bourrogh, CDC, and Univac. In previous lives, Microsoft has also mocked the NOICE group composed of Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun Microsystems and other competitors.

What happened later, IBM and Microsoft are still living a very moist life.

Compared with these big scenes, Rubinstein’s tricks are not enough.

“Let the storm come harder.” Tang Huan roared frantically in response to the waves coming.

Seeing Tang Huan playing so happily, Kildare and Eubanks also yelled.

After returning to land, Kildare did not break his promise. As far as he knew, he talked about Rubinstein’s recent developments. It is said that a financial software company named Taoshu has been brought in to deal with CGrid.

Tang Huan looked at Kildare’s posture. The most optimistic situation was standing on one side and holding his shoulders watching the excitement. He couldn’t say anything about cooperating with each other. He simply stopped wasting time and left.

However, Tang Huan is also guessing in his heart, who will be the next target of the anti-Tang IT alliance that Rubinstein is tossing about.