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Simon spent a week on the east coast, spent a weekend, and returned to San Francisco on the west coast on January 25.

Failing to reach a cooperation agreement with Microsoft on the pre-installation of the ie browser, Igreat has recently made contacts with pc manufacturers such as Apple, Hewlett-Packard and Compaq.

Compared with the original browser software installed by service providers for users, pre-installation directly on the operating system can greatly increase the income of IE browser software.

Due to population restrictions, once the number of Internet access users reaches a certain scale, it is impossible to continue to rapidly increase. Personal computers, as a consumable item, need to be continuously updated, and sales will continue to increase in the next ten years.

Moreover, adopting the software pre-installation model can also completely consolidate the market position of ie browser software, which is actually a monopoly position and avoid any opportunity for competitors.

In the past, Microsoft used this trick to defeat dozens of browser patent licensees, including Netscape.

Igreit holds most of the core patents of the World Wide Web technology, and it stands to reason that there is no need to worry about the monopoly of the IE browser. However, it has to be avoided.

Mainly antitrust.

If the federal government conducts an antitrust investigation of the Internet Explorer browser, which sounded like this last year, Igret may have to license the technology out.

At that time, as long as the pre-installed mode of the IE browser has become an established fact, even if there are competitors, the threat will not be too great.

Therefore, Igreit attaches great importance to this plan.

"Apple and ibm both rejected our cooperation plan. Apple believes that doing so will increase the purchase cost of users. IBM thinks that since the software is to be pre-installed in the other party's machine, we should pay the other party's fees, not It should be charged. Several other manufacturers, such as HP, Compaq, and Dell, are still negotiating, and basically they can reach a cooperation agreement, but they have not yet reached an agreement on the pre-installation price. I think these manufacturers should have privately Contact, we have reached an alliance of advancing and retreating together.”

In the conference room, Jeff Bezos introduced the general progress of the pre-installation plan.

In fact, Simon is also more interested in the market advantages brought by the pre-installation plan to the IE browser software. It is the most important to ensure the absolute Internet portal status of this operating software. As for the software pre-installation benefits, he originally planned to gradually promote IE browsing. The free software makes this software a free 'service' of Igreit, reducing the possibility of monopoly charges, so it doesn't matter if the price is lower.

Of course, it is unlikely that it will be free in the short term.

Igreit is still very dependent on the IE browser's easy income of hundreds of millions of dollars per year.

Simon is actually very resistant to this kind of dependence, but he has to admit that the income of the IE browser can not only reduce the large demand for funds of Igret, but also improve the development of the Internet industry in Igret and even the entire new technology field. confidence in the future.

For emerging industries, only when they can obtain practical benefits can they attract more people to participate.

While listening to Bezos' introduction, Simon flipped through a more detailed document in his hand. After a while, he raised his head and said, "Is there any possibility of continuing negotiations on Apple's side?"

Jeff Bezos shook his head and said: "I personally talked to John Sculley three times, and the other party refused. Apple's performance in recent years has been very good, and their operating system has not been widely licensed to the outside world. Not worried about competitors, so don't want to incur additional software pre-installation costs."

After the Gulf War, the U.S. stock market recovered, and the PC market grew rapidly. Whether it is capital or actual performance, Apple has been quite nourishing in recent years. Not only has its market value climbed, but it still maintains a high level of more than 7 billion U.S. dollars. Its market share The rate is also stable at above 20%.

Moreover, unlike the Microsoft camp, Apple's Macintosh system is not licensed, so there is no compatible competitor.

John Sculley probably decided that Igreit could not give up the 20% of the PC market occupied by Apple, and did not want to bear the additional cost of software procurement.

It is impossible for Igreit to give up the Apple computer market.

Otherwise, Simon would not have specifically asked about the possibility that there was no negotiation.

It's just that Apple CEO John Sculley apparently forgot that while Igreit couldn't give up the Apple computer market, it could slow down the development of the Macintosh version of the IE browser.

The internet will only become more important to PC users in the coming years.

If the web browser software of Apple's Macintosh operating system platform is always not as easy to use as Microsoft's platform, the negative word of mouth will accumulate over time, and it will be enough for Apple to feel uncomfortable.

What's more, there are pre-installed plans.

Different from Apple's arrogance and ibm's arrogance, the reason why manufacturers such as HP and Compaq are willing to cooperate is obviously because of the promotion of this plan to them.

When users access the World Wide Web, they can indeed obtain software installations from service providers, but the cost is actually clearly marked.

If there is a problem with the software in the follow-up, or the computer needs to be replaced, the IE browser must be reinstalled, which is definitely not suitable for continuing to trouble the operator.

As we all know, labor in the United States is very expensive.

$10 IE browser software, if someone installs it, service fee

There may be more than this number.

Of course, there are also retail versions of Internet Explorer, including online software stores, but doing so will eventually bring all kinds of inconveniences.

At this time, if a machine itself is pre-installed with the IE browser, users will show a tendency unknowingly. The machine can be used directly after buying it. If there is a failure, you may only need to restore the factory system, which is obviously much more convenient than those computers without pre-installed browsers.

Commercial competition is often a competition in the details accumulated bit by bit.

Apple is unwilling to cooperate, and the loss will only be the other party itself.

Simon didn't put too much thought into tripping the opponent. In a long-distance race, if a person stopped and tried to trip a competitor, he would only slow down his progress.

As for the future.

Thinking about the rapid decline of Apple after the release of Windows 95, if the other party wants to recover, it will definitely not work without paying the price.

Continuing to discuss the pre-installation plan, the topic ended, and Carol Bartz proposed another project.

About a brand new computer operating system.

linux.

"This is a set of open source operating system kernels released by a Finnish programmer named Linus Torvac last year. After it was released through the World Wide Web platform, many programmers around the world are now volunteering for this system. Follow-up development. We think this system is suitable to replace the unix system currently used in the company's data center, so we plan to set up a team to be responsible for this project."

Carol Bartz just introduced a rough idea, Simon actually had seen the detailed planning of this project in advance on the plane to San Francisco.

The data center of Igretech is still using the Unix system. The licensing fee of the Unix system is very expensive, and the degree of openness of this system is still not up to the Igretech technical team can arbitrarily according to their own needs. The extent to which the lowest level of modification is made.

Completely open source and free linux, no doubt solve this problem.

In my memory, because of the free and open source attributes, the share of the Linux system in the later server market reached more than 90%.

Of course, it is not easy to develop an operating system.

Microsoft was established in 1975, and it has been nearly 20 years now. The latest Windows 3.1 system still has various problems.

Simon appreciates that Carol Bartz and several others discovered the potential value of this operating system shortly after the Linux system was born, but if it is really put into development, it will be a protracted project.

If you want to develop a brand new operating system, it is only a technical team, and it is impossible to have one or two hundred people, and it must be the top software engineer.

At the same time, it is also unrealistic to expect an operating system to be completed in one or two years.

Finally, when the project is completed, it is still not an easy task to replace the existing unix system.

The cloud computing technology of Igreit is currently developed based on the Unix system.

However, no matter how difficult it is, Simon understands that it is absolutely correct to use a free and open source Linux system instead of a closed and paid Unix.

Now that you're sure you're on the right path, no matter how much you put in the process, it's worth it.

Everyone discussed it for more than half an hour. Although Jeff Bezos had some criticisms about this plan, which may take up a lot of funds and resources of Igret, he did not object, so it was quickly finalized.

Time unknowingly is noon.

Everyone had lunch together, returned to the company, and discussed some of the future cooperation between Igret and AOL through a conference call with Steve Case who was still in New York.

AOL's headquarters was moved to San Francisco at first, because the business scale of subsequent companies on the east coast far exceeded that of the west coast, and Steve Case's time in the New York headquarters on the east coast far exceeded the time on the west coast, and the operation team gradually tilted eastward. The West Coast headquarters is now more focused on technology research and development.

Adsl technology is to finalize the plan and complete the test on the west coast.

After finishing the trip to the Igret company, Simon took the time to go to the Tincober company run by C-girl Claire Gein.

With the rise of the Internet, the demand for icam digital cameras has been increasing.

In 1992, icam's shipments had grown to about 50,000 units per month, with annual shipments reaching 610,000 units, with sales approaching $300 million.

For a start-up electronic product company, this is already a pioneering work when a large number of veteran manufacturers with strong technology have entered the market.

Because of keeping up with the rapidly emerging concept of the Internet, Wall Street has recently valued icam as high as $1 billion.

After another round of financing, Westeros's stake in Tinkerbell rose to 70%, and the two founders' holdings were compressed from 25% to 15%.

However, according to the recent valuation of 1 billion US dollars, only this 15% stake is also worth 150 million US dollars.

Claire Gein has also become another billionaire out of the Westeros system, and, compared to the executives of the Westeros system, the identity of the C girl is more provocative

Reverie: Simon Westeros' Maid.

There are also more and more people in the outside world who know the information of the four girls "abcd" around Simon Westeros, full of all kinds of ambiguous curiosity.

The third-generation icam-30 will still be released at Easter.

At the same time, Tinkobeier has quietly started to develop digital music players, and the trademarks have already been registered, iplayer.

The player will be mainly based on the mp3 audio format and micro-hard disk storage technology provided by Igreat.

It is also a product that appeared almost ten years in advance. However, because the related technologies have been accumulated for many years, there is also no major obstacle to product development.

As long as the next usb is completed and promoted, and AOL's adsl network is completed, the digital music player can create a complete set of online music ecosystem.

At the end of the day's work, Simon stayed one night at the mountain villa in Woodside with the female assistant who came quietly, and returned to Los Angeles the next day.

This year's American Film and Television Golden Globe Awards will be held on Thursday, January 28.

The location is still the Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills.

Daenerys Entertainment has a plethora of nominations for both film and TV, and as usual it was a hit of the night.

The company also started preparations for the celebration party after the Golden Globes ceremony a week in advance.

Winning or not, with more than 30 nominations in film and television, Daenerys Entertainment has plenty to celebrate.

Simon didn't have the heart to sit in the banquet hall of the Hilton Hotel for a few hours. He still worked until six o'clock in the afternoon, and returned to Dumay Cape Manor to have dinner with Janet. The two rushed to the second floor of Daenerys Studios ahead of schedule. activity center.

Tonight's celebration party is still held here.

Many company executives and some stars who did not participate in the award ceremony came early. After the award ceremony, it was even more lively here.

The live broadcast of the Golden Globe Awards was played on the projection screen in the lobby of the event center. Simon and Amy Pascal and others greeted them and discussed the plan of the "Conjuring Universe" with Danny Morris.

"The Warrens collaborated with a writer to publish a biography in 1980 called 'The Warrens and Psychologists', and signed an exclusive licensing agreement with them, and the Warrens were no longer allowed to share their experiences. Licensing to other people. This is the most troublesome bit. We approached the writer and they made a $5 million offer, which was a joke. But recently word has spread and now several other studios in Hollywood are The rights to adapt that book generated interest."

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