Rebirth of the Tech Madman

California high-speed rail is a large project costing more than 30 billion U.S. dollars. Even if it is one-third of the funds, a walk around the Bank of America is enough to relieve the Bank of America, which is plagued by non-performing loans.

"Everyone, I said, Tang can bring us the strongest good news." Alden Clausen laughed and looked around at everyone.

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"Tang has always been our highest quality and most important customer."

"If Tang can become our partner, then this difficulty is not a problem at all, and there is no need to sell assets on a large scale."

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"Thank you for your respect." Tang Huan waved his hand with a smile amidst the repeated compliments.

Can the sweet words of the bankers take it seriously?

Moreover, the aura of the richest man in the United States is already dazzling enough, Tang Huan does not want to be outside the IT industry, too much to stir the sensitive nerves of those traditional tycoons.

Therefore, the calculations made by the Bank of America group are far from what Tang Huan thought.

"I have just stated the principles of this cooperation." Tang Huan continued: "Based on this consideration, PeopleSoft should be more suitable to come forward than me personally, and Louis Gerstner is the best candidate to enter the board of directors. ."

The meeting room was completely silent, and the Bank of America side began to ponder Tang Huan's cooperation plan for launching an agent.

"PeopleSoft is an it application provider with outstanding achievements in the field of business management. It has successfully provided solutions for nearly a thousand companies. If you become a partner with Bank of America, you will undoubtedly do many things in one fell swoop." Tang Huan is not slow. To add.

"Neither PeopleSoft nor Tang is fundamentally different. Everyone is in the California system, isn't it?" Alden Clausen took the lead.

"It's true." The others began to echo.

Amidst the discussion, the serious-faced Louis Gerstner's waist straightened. He did not expect that after a frustrated change from American Express to the IT field, he returned to his finances so quickly. It seems that the boss is right, there are endless possibilities in the future!

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Outside of the hostile takeover by First Intercontinental Bank, Bank of America is in the midst of life and death. This group of people, who are related to their vital interests, naturally did not dare to slack in the slightest, and the meeting went on until the night.

In this way, Bank of America was able to hold a press conference as quickly as possible.

The media has long been watching Bank of America's every move, and after being notified, they immediately swarmed to see how it plans to get out of its current predicament.

To people’s surprise, Bank of America CEO Alden Clausen first introduced Louis Gerstner who was sitting next to him before announcing major issues.

The several heavyweight executives under Tang Huan's command are not unknown, and reporters can recognize them at a glance. They can't help but wonder, what is the chairman of PeopleSoft's board of directors sitting here?

Alden Clausen quickly gave the answer, "What I want to tell you is that Bank of America will exchange shares with PeopleSoft and become a strategic partner; while Mr. Louis Gerstner will enter the Bank of America's Board of Directors."

After watching everyone in the audience whispering and whispering in surprise, Alden Clausen smiled triumphantly. He wanted this effect.

Next, the CEO of Bank of America, who had only been in office for a short time, began to announce the second news: "In the next few years, Bank of America will carry out a series of reforms, including administrative reforms, and vigorously adopt the latest advanced technology. , While reducing operating costs, provide customers with the best service. Regarding the plan in this regard, please introduce Mr. Gerstner to everyone."

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This press conference was almost the policy speech of Alden Clausen. There was not even a question link set up, let alone how to counteract the hostile takeover of First Intercontinental Bank.

However, when these reporters left the press conference in a daze, they got the latest news. Bank of America has launched a counter-action. As soon as the New York Stock Exchange opened, it began to repurchase its own stock on a large scale. , That momentum is not a general decisiveness. Obviously, he has received Austrian aid and his confidence has doubled.

Earlier, the stock price of Bank of America fell to as low as $8, which made the First Intercontinental Bank coveted. When it launched a hostile takeover, Bank of America's stock price remained sluggish. However, after Bank of America's funds entered the stock market with great fanfare, it finally gave the stock price a boost and began to slowly rebound under the competition between the two sides.

In fact, First Intercontinental Bank’s hostile takeover of Bank of America was a big bet. You know, Bank of America's plate is not small, and a random increase in price will cause obvious cost pressures on the purchaser.

In the evening, interpretations of the news disclosed at the Bank of America press conference were also released.

Almost all the calibers are: Bank of America was really lucky and found a cash cow with plenty of milk. PeopleSoft, which just went public this year, is holding a lot of cash in his hands.

Of course, this is a superficial analysis result.

The deeper significance is that PeopleSoft, a supplier of business applications, enterprise resource planning solutions and independent software, through this strategic cooperation, the breadth and depth of its product coverage is very likely to take a leap; and Bank of America can use it. PeopleSoft has approached the companies it serves from another angle, and further caught up with Tang Huan and the upcoming California high-speed rail project to open up a vibrant business area for itself.

In this case, the first Intercontinental Bank, which was supposed to take a risk, might have to go home.

Sure enough, as the market digested the good news, the stock price of Bank of America rebounded further, and the acquisition of First Intercontinental Bank became more and more difficult. It seemed that it was close to the target, but it was out of reach and could only announce the abandonment of the plan.

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This result was expected by Tang Huan. After all, Bank of America was only suffering from a serious illness, and its physical foundation was quite solid.

Seeing that the critics did not praise himself, Tang Huan was relieved to stop paying attention and continued to read the report from Yongtong Electronics.

This company that operates telecommunications equipment was listed on the Nasdaq in early October. Relying on technologies such as adsl and cable modem, it has become a very popular newcomer in the telecommunication equipment industry full of great powers.

For this reason, some people have also linked Yongtong Electronics’ ipo with the "Forbes 400 Rich List of the United States"-if the time to market is moved forward, so that it can be counted, the richest man’s $36.6 billion net worth will definitely go up. Long section.

However, Yongtong Electronics cannot be compared with Renke, which develops software services. It is similar to Fangyuan Computer Company. During its operation, it squeezes funds quite a bit, so the money from the ipo circle really can't be moved.

"Competition in this field has not really started yet." Tang Huangang sighed, and Zhou Mi called from Xiangjiang and said: "HSBC secretly messed up and sent people to the Hong Kong government to propose that the franchise of Xiangjiang Telecom should be revoked and the license should be released. Let more people share this cake."

HeungKong Telecom's franchise period for local local calls is 1995, and the franchise period for long-distance calls will have to wait until the beginning of the next century. The time is by no means short, and no one can casually give up the opportunity to enjoy this delicious cake. Naturally, Tang Huan is no exception.

"Shen Bi, this old guy will really pick the key points." Tang Huan sneered, "It just so happens that I also prepared some cakes for HSBC, so let's tear it apart."

"In the past few years, Xiangjiang Telecom has spared no effort in infrastructure construction and other aspects, forcibly recovering the losses caused by the franchise, who will pay the bill?"

"Take this opportunity to take a good look at the account book and let everyone see what HeungKong Telecom has done after it fell into our hands."

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After giving this tit-for-tat instruction, Tang Huan couldn’t pay attention to it anymore. Gein ibm’s new generation of personal system, personalsystem/2, or ps/2, has been disclosed more and more, and the momentum is getting stronger and stronger. Obviously, it is about to come out, and he must have a meeting immediately and be ready for it.

The strength of the blue giant is beyond doubt, not to mention that it still has the energy to do its best to fight back.

Judging from the current intelligence, the biggest feature of ps/2 is to summarize the gains and losses of all the previous ibm-pc series, and draw lessons from the success of Fangyuan personal computers, and take a higher and broader overall perspective. The thorough, brand-new design is very similar to Tang Huan’s high-profile and overall overview when he first launched the Fangyuan personal computer.

Strictly authorized ps/2, supports intel8086 and intel80286 two old-fashioned microprocessors, which can replace the previous full-line products such as ibm-pc, ibm-pc/xt, ibm-pc/at, etc., as if to replace all current ibm-pc, ibm-pc/xt, ibm-pc/at and other products. The PC-compatible machine manufacturer has been killed, which can be seen from the release of more than a dozen product models in this direction alone.

Of course, Intel’s latest generation of microprocessor intel80386, ibm will not forget, ps/2 has a model that uses this cpu, although it is late compared to competitors such as Fangyuan personal computers and ibm-pc compatible machines, but it is therefore more For maturity.

On the eve of the opening of Las Vegas comdex this fall, Cupertino in Silicon Valley suddenly became lively. Luxury cars gathered in the parking lot of Zheru's US headquarters, and helicopters occasionally took off and landed.

Local residents, colleagues such as Apple Inc., and interested media professionals, after seeing this grand occasion, all understood that this is Tang Huan's various people who sowed like dandelion seeds. They were summoned from Mountain View. , Redwood City and other places gathered in Cupertino to hold the entire group meeting.

The fact is like this. In the huge Cupertino Center conference room, hundreds of attendees were sitting watching the slides while listening to the analysis of the current market situation, especially the new products of the main rival ibm.

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"Ibm not only launched a series of new products, but also established a new personal computer standard. The micro-channel architecture used by ps/2 is the most powerful proof."

"This is a brand-new and powerful system bus architecture. It adopts some technologies of mainframes such as system/360 in the design, so it is different from the previous ibm-pc, ibm-pc/xt, ibm-pc/at Free mode, any company that wants to use it needs to pay an authorization fee."

"The operating system that supports ps/2 is os/2 jointly developed by ibm and Microsoft. In short, in addition to not having a graphical user interface function, it supports all the most advanced mainstream functions such as protected mode and multitasking. It replaces the PC-DOS developed by Microsoft for ibm-pc, or ms-dos."

"What we need to pay special attention to is that with the launch of ps/2, ibm also introduced an ambitious plan called-System Application Architecture or SAA."

"As we all know, we have launched a series of applications in the fields of underlying system calls, network communications, video acceleration, etc.-application programming interfaces are APIs. The response is very good, and they are very popular, and have won the support and support of a large number of third-party vendors. Our products occupy more market share. It plays a pivotal role."

"Ibm's saa, similar to our ~www.wuxiaspot.com~, will provide a mainframe interface on a personal computer platform. This is of little significance for a computer for completely personal use, but it is different for a commercial computer. We know Ibm still dominates the mainframe market."

"The main reason that ibm launched in the 1960s-system/360, is so successful, one of the main reasons is that all hardware platforms have consistent software interfaces." ⑧☆miào⑧☆bi(.*)gé⑧☆.＄.

"Now, ibm intends to replicate this successful experience through saa, so that all products from mainframes to personal computers have a unified interface."

"It can be said that we have realized this vision of ibm to a certain extent in advance. But don’t forget that our Fangyuan PC, Fangyuan Workstation, Fangyuan Server, and Fangyuan Supercomputer are brand-new products in the 1980s. They were designed at the beginning of the design. Taking into account the needs of the same interface, and then leave room."

"And after ibm has enjoyed the huge profits brought by mainframes for decades, it has also invisibly carried a heavy burden. If saa wants to integrate all the old products and the latest products into a unified architecture, it is like It is almost impossible to pursue 100% perfection."

"However, as long as SAA achieves most of its goals, its threat is large enough."

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When the slide screen dimmed, Tang Huan turned on the microphone in front of him and slowly said, "You should feel it, the elephant is really angry."

In the roar of laughter, Tang Huan’s expression became more serious, "You should be able to imagine how cruel the next market competition is. This will be the ultimate battle for personal computer standards. In the next 18 months, you will be able to separate. The result comes."