Rebirth of the Wild Age

The launch of DJI's unmanned aerial photography all-in-one machine has not attracted the attention of the scientific and technological circles, because there is no similar company in China. As for well-known foreign counterparts, they are continuing to develop single-rotor aircraft, and they only sell aircraft. If they want to play aerial photography, they can buy cameras and install them themselves.

The big news in the technology world was Lenovo's acquisition of IBM's PC business, followed by Oracle's acquisition of PeopleSoft.

The sensation caused by the latter is far greater than that of the former abroad, and even domestically it is full of excitement. For example, in a software company like Kingsoft, the entire management is paying attention, and employees are also discussing this matter during meal breaks.

PeopleSoft is a large multinational software company with offices or subsidiaries all over the world and a market value of billions of dollars. Just last year, PeopleSoft also successfully acquired j.d.edwards, one of the four major software companies in the United States, which caused PeopleSoft's stock price to soar and profits to soar.

No one expected that PeopleSoft, one of the four major software companies in the United States, was actually acquired by another "big four" (Oracle) only one year after acquiring one of the "big four".

At the very beginning, Oracle Bone Civilization wanted to make a hostile takeover, and wanted to kill the two brands of PeopleSoft and j.d.edwards.

Of course PeopleSoft was unwilling, and quickly sued Oracle for violating the fair competition law and anti-monopoly law. Unfortunately, the public relations were not good enough, and the US court sided with Oracle. Subsequently, PeopleSoft actually pulled the US Department of Justice and the European Commission out to help, and successfully stopped Oracle's hostile takeover.

Oracle was forced to postpone the deadline for the acquisition of PeopleSoft for the sixth time, and then changed the acquisition measures, promising to keep PeopleSoft's brand and technical employees in the future, and constantly raising the purchase price, which caused the will of PeopleSoft shareholders to waver. Faced with the temptation of money, PeopleSoft shareholders were not even willing to start the "poison pill plan", because although it could keep the company, it would damage the interests of shareholders. In order to sell the company smoothly, PeopleSoft shareholders simply fired the CEO. This is what happens to capital-controlled companies.

After 18 months of talks about the acquisition, Oracle finally acquired PeopleSoft at a cost of US$10.3 billion.

Don't blame PeopleSoft's shareholders for only having money in their eyes. It is because Oracle paid too much for the acquisition. If the entire acquisition process is expressed in numbers, it would roughly look like this: 5.1 billion, 6.3 billion, 7.3 billion, 9.4 billion, 7.7 billion, 8.8 billion, 10.3 billion, deal!

There were two lower quotations in the middle of the negotiation, because the stock price of PeopleSoft had been rising, and the stock price plummeted because of the anti-takeover. It has been getting worse and worse. Oracle suddenly raised its offer to more than 10 billion US dollars, and PeopleSoft shareholders were overjoyed to sell the company.

Although this acquisition cannot change the world of the international software industry, it will definitely have far-reaching impact.

As for China, people are still focusing on Lenovo's acquisition, while online gamers are attracted by another piece of news: Excalibur Network suddenly announced after two postponements that "Shan Hai Jing: Searching Gods" will be released on January 18, 2005. Open the public beta without deleting files.

All of a sudden, Sohu, Sina, Netease, Yahoo, Sogou, Tianya, 17173... the well-known websites in China, including Baidu, the enemy website, were full of "Shan Hai Jing" game advertisements, and the QQ pop-up windows were even more so. Pops up several times a day.

Song Weiyang's influence is not fake. Many paper-based official media "helped" to promote it, and praised "Shan Hai Jing" as "a banner of national online games".

Faced with this kind of carpet bombing, Mr. Zhu finally couldn't sit still.

Ninetowns, conference room.

Mr. Zhu asked anxiously: "Old Jiang, when will your side be ready?"

"It will have to wait until after the Spring Festival at the earliest." Jiang Huanxing replied.

Jiang Huanxing graduated from Fudan University with a master's degree in Electron Physics, and previously worked as a technical consultant at Hewlett-Packard (China). In order to be able to win the agency rights of "World of Warcraft", Ninetowns deliberately recruited Jiang Huanxing as the technical director to ensure that Ninetowns' technology can meet the rigid requirements put forward by Blizzard and Vivendi.

Mr. Zhu said: "We have to speed up the progress, we can't delay it for too long, the public beta of "Shan Hai Jing" is about to start!"

Jiang Huanxing rubbed his face and said, "I'll do my best. My technical team has been working overtime for the past two months, and everyone is very tired. I wonder if the overtime pay should be raised, otherwise the technicians will pay more. I can't afford passion."

"Increase, directly increase by one-third, let them all cheer me up!" Mr. Zhu asked Tian Jian again, "How about the progress of Sinicization?"

Tian Jian is the founder of another space-time nga forum, a veteran die-hard Blizzard fan, who was recruited by Ninetowns because of the Sinicization of "Warcraft 3". Illidan's English line was originally "You are not ready", but Tian Jian translated it into "You are looking for your own death", which can be said to have achieved a very good localization.

Tian Jian replied: "The Sinicization work has almost been completed, Mr. Zhu has to find some professional dubbing actors, which will take at least ten days and a half months."

"Good job, when the public beta of "World of Warcraft" starts, I will give bonuses to all the members of the Sinicization team!" Mr. Zhu said with satisfaction.

Tian Jian said with a smile: "Boss, I don't think you need to worry too much. "World of Warcraft" is an invincible game, and it is impossible to be defeated at this stage. Don't look at the advertisements of "Shan Hai Jing" now, and its reputation is also very good." Yes, but it’s hard to say what the results will be after the actual launch. At the beginning, games such as “Miracle”, “a3”, and “Ever Quest” were not overwhelming publicity campaigns, and which ones were not too high in word-of-mouth and expectations, but few of them were launched. It won't work in a month."

"You haven't played The Classic of Mountains and Seas yet, have you?" Mr. Zhu asked.

"No, I have been working on the Sinicization of "World of Warcraft" during this time." Tian Jiandao.

Mr. Zhu wanted to cry, he said: "I sent people to participate in the beta test of "Shan Hai Jing", and I sent people to play "World of Warcraft". The core gameplay of these two games is more than 80% similar. , and "Shan Hai Jing" still occupies the local cultural advantage, how can I not worry?"

"The similarity of the core gameplay is as high as 80%?" Tian Jian asked in surprise.

"That's true." Mr. Zhu said.

"This is too coincidental, could it be plagiarism?" Tian Jian's first reaction was this. He is a super Blizzard fan, and in his heart, Blizzard is the number one in the world.

Mr. Zhu asked: "How to copy? When the project of "Shan Hai Jing" was established, the development of "Legend" had not yet started, and Blizzard had not announced the project of "World of Warcraft"!"

Tian Jian scratched his head and said, "That's really a coincidence, just like Newton and Leibniz invented calculus at the same time."

Mr. Zhu has enough reasons to feel depressed. If the gameplay of the two games is not so similar, then even if "Shan Hai Jing" is extremely fun, he will not feel too strong a sense of crisis. Just like excellent sci-fi movies and romance movies are shown in theaters at the same time, movie fans like to watch whatever they want because the audiences are different. If two excellent sci-fi films are released at the same time, it will be terrible, and you will definitely use your brains when grabbing the box office.

I also blame Song Weiyang for being too insidious. The few shit sticks he threw delayed the time for Ninetowns to obtain agency rights for half a year, and the corresponding technical and Sinicization tasks were also delayed. Otherwise, facing the aggressive publicity campaign of "Shan Hai Jing", Ninetowns will be able to launch "World of Warcraft" ahead of schedule.

...

East China Normal University.

A few days before the final exam, Doudou was already going crazy, reciting "Mao Si" frantically in the dormitory. She never listened to this stuff in class, and even had a record of skipping class several times, and was even discovered by the teacher once.

High math is also easier to test than "Mao Si". She studied science in high school, and she had forgotten all about politics.

Lying on the bed with her back on her back, Doudou fell asleep and slept for half the afternoon.

"Who is playing the pipa, a piece of Dongfeng Po..."

Suddenly the phone rang, and Doudou grabbed the phone in a daze: "Hey, who is it... playing cs online? Boss, did you make a mistake, the final exam is next week... okay, I will change it too Brain, you go to the Internet cafe and turn on the machine first, and I will ride there right away."

After getting up, I washed my face with clean water to refresh my mind. Doudou didn't bother to take care of her personal image, so she tied her hair into a ponytail, picked up her backpack and left. She walked out of the dormitory and turned back to ask: "Sisters, who wants to eat supper, I will bring it back for her at night!"

"No need." A roommate named Zhang Nuo said.

Doudou said: "Then I'll buy some casually, and you can take them yourself when the time comes."

Shen Weiran, who was lying on the table reviewing the test center, suddenly raised her head to protest: "Zhu Jingyan, are you sincerely not letting me lose weight!"

Doudou laughed loudly: "There is free supper, and you still complain so much? It's only about 100 catties, what kind of weight loss is there. Okay, I'll go first."

"Jingyan, can I use your computer to chat on QQ?" Another girl named Li Cui asked weakly while sitting by the bed.

Doudou said carelessly: "Use it, you can use it as you like, you are so polite."

"Thank you." Li Cui then cautiously turned on the computer.

The soft college of East China Normal University was originally a model college. It was only established two years ago, and the number of students in the whole college was not many, and the number of girls was even smaller. Therefore, in the dormitory where Doudou lives, only two are students of the same major, and the rest are in other departments.

There are also two computers in the dormitory, Doudou's computer is used casually, and she even posted the Internet password. Another girl's computer is very expensive, and she usually covers the case and monitor with gauze. Anyone who touches her computer is like killing her father.

Doudou also often brought food back to share. Several girls in the dormitory were fattened by her, and the girl who said she wanted to lose weight ate the most.

It stands to reason that Doudou should be very popular in the dormitory, but there are too many messes between girls.

First of all, another girl who owns a computer behaves incompatible with Doudou.

The two of them are in the same class, and there are only a few girls in the class, enjoying the treatment of the stars. The problem is that Doudou's moon is the most dazzling this time around, and she is directly rated as the flower of the class by those stinky boys. I don't know who commented and when. Anyway, everyone doesn't call Doudou by name, and usually calls "Banhua" when they see it.

In addition, Doudou is very generous, not only allowing her roommates to play with the computer, but also offering to provide the password to the Internet, which makes the other girl meaner, and they become enemies after coming and going.

"I said you can use it casually, and you are so polite... Tsk tsk tsk," Zhou Yue in the second bed imitated Doudou after Doudou had gone far away, and said with disdain, "Who would buy people's hearts with fake generosity?" I don’t have money to buy a computer. I have a Dell computer at home, if my mother didn’t worry about delaying my studies, I would have brought the computer to school a long time ago.”

Zhang Nuo couldn't understand it, and immediately helped Doudou to speak: "Zhou Yue, can you stop talking bad things about people behind their backs, and say what you want in front of Jing Yan!"

"None of your business!" Zhou Yue retorted.

Zhou Yue is not the girl with a computer, but a Chinese language and literature major. She should have been born in a wealthy family. She usually likes to dress up, wears many famous brands all over her body, and is pretty pretty. She has good academic performance since she was a child, and she has long been used to being pampered and coaxed.

The conflict between Zhou Yue and Doudou is very nonsense.

When they first entered school, the relationship between the two was actually very good. But once, Zhou Yue bought a Motorola mobile phone with 64 polyphonic ringtones and took it to the dormitory to brag about how advanced and powerful it was. As a result, in the second week, Doudou also changed to a new mobile phone, and when the ringtone rang, it was actually "Dongfeng Po".

These days, mobile phones with 64 polyphonic ringtones are considered the best, while Doudou's mobile phone has mp3 ringtones, and you can freely edit ringtones with a computer. This is the flagship phone launched by Shenzhou Mobile this fall, and the price is as high as 3888 yuan!

Zhou Yue was instantly robbed of the limelight, and even felt that Doudou deliberately disgusted her. Otherwise, why did she buy a 64 polyphonic phone last week, and Doudou replaced it with an mp3 ringtone phone next week?

"Yesterday, I heard people say that after the National Day holiday, Zhu Jingyan returned to school in an Audi A8," Zhou Yue sneered, "Tell me, is she being raised by someone... so what?"

The relationship between Zhang Nuo and Doudou is very good, and he was angry immediately: "Don't allow other people to be rich!"

Zhou Yue laughed straight: "She's the only one who is rich? She doesn't have a single famous brand on her body, and she uses a China-made mobile phone."

Zhang Nuo sneered: "The price of their domestic mobile phone is not cheaper than your Motorola."

"What's the big deal? I'll change to a Nokia 7610 next year!" Zhou Yue got angry when he mentioned this, and even moved out the Nokia 7610, which was priced at 5,400 yuan when it first went on the market. It has a built-in digital camera of 1 million pixels .

"Alas." Zhang Nuo didn't bother to speak anymore.

The foodie student Shen Weiran, who has been shouting to lose weight, suddenly came to a critical blow: "The coat that Jing Yan was wearing just now, I think I saw it when I was reading a fashion magazine at my aunt's house. It belongs to Givenchy."

"It must be a counterfeit product!" Zhou Yue said.

Shen Weiran laughed and said, "I haven't seen anyone wearing counterfeit famous brands, and deliberately tore off the logos. I haven't heard of any counterfeit clothes that hide the famous brand logos, and usually print them very clearly."

Zhou Yue suddenly didn't know how to refute, so she picked up her textbook and went out to the library.

Doudou's best friend, Zhang Nuo, became interested, and went over to discuss, "Wei Ran, do you think Doudou is really a rich daughter? Then I will hug her thigh tightly from now on."

Shen Weiran took out a bag of snacks from nowhere, chewed and said, "How do I know? My parents are both small civil servants, and I don't have the opportunity to get in touch with the wealthy class. Well, do you want some?"

Zhang Nuo grabbed a piece of snack and put it in his mouth: "Aren't you going to lose weight?"

"How can I lose weight if I don't eat enough?" Shen Weiran ate more and more vigorously, and began to transform into Sherlock Holmes, "Zhu Jingyan, a classmate, has been very mysterious and low-key since the day she entered the school. She said that this Shenzhou computer is only 6000 yuan. A lot of ordinary stuff. But once, I copied down the various parameters of the computer and asked a senior in the computer department. Guess what the senior said?"

"How to say?" Zhang Nuo asked quickly.

Shen Weiran said: "The senior speculates that Jingyan's computer should be the most expensive model in China. It was priced at 12,000 when it was first launched, and it costs more than 9,000 even now. And she deliberately replaced the ordinary case and display screen, Just don't let people see it!"

"A 12,000 computer? I can't afford to pay for it if it breaks down!" Li Cui, who was chatting on QQ, suddenly trembled with fright.

Shen Weiran smiled and said, "Use it, Jingyan doesn't care anyway."

Zhang Nuo muttered, "Could Jingyan's family be multi-millionaires?"

Shen Weiran has a particularly detective temperament, chewing potato chips and said: "According to my speculation, her family is probably a billionaire, so rich that she needs to deliberately keep a low profile. The Audi a8 that Zhou Yue was talking about was also in school at the time. I saw it outside. I stopped one stop away from the school gate, for fear of being seen by my classmates, and the driver should be a full-time female driver."

"You can guess this?" Zhang Nuo didn't believe it.

"That female driver was so attentive, she even got out of the car to help Jingyan carry her bag. She obviously wanted to send her into the school, but she scolded her back with a few words." Shen Weiran suddenly raised his right hand, "There is only one truth. Our classmate Zhu Jingyan , is it the super rich daughter who hides among the crowd, or the kind with a full-time female driver!"

...

Classmate Doudou, the daughter of the super rich, is yelling in an Internet cafe, playing cs online with a bunch of rough old men.

These are all male students in the class, and some of them hang around Doudou all day long. None of them dared to confess. On the one hand, they were afraid of being rejected. On the other hand, whoever confessed would become the public enemy of the whole class. Therefore, they played games with Doudou in different ways, and often discussed programming knowledge with Doudou. .

If Doudou set up an Internet company by herself one day, half of the boys in the class would be willing to accompany her to start a business. This sister is so popular, beautiful, bold, generous, and awesome in programming, she is the perfect goddess in the minds of boys majoring in computer science. A beautiful woman who can accompany you to play games and chat about programming is rarer than a panda!

"Sister, there are snipers ahead, I will use my body to help you find the way! Who will support the flashes?" a strong man shouted.

Doudou held the m249 machine gun (b51 in cs) and said: "It's so troublesome, first greet with a round of grenades, and then throw flash bombs and smoke bombs to serve, sister, I will kill directly!"

Well, under Doudou's strong request, many boys no longer call her class beauty, but respectfully call her "big sister".

"Da da da da da!"

The Counter-Strike elite controlled by Doudou charged forward with a heavy machine gun, followed by a group of followers licking dogs, and soon staged an extremely perfect group annihilation.

After dying countless times, it was time to get off the plane. Doudou announced: ""Shan Hai Jing" is about to be tested, and we will enter the game together during the winter vacation. Let's form a guild ourselves. Anyone who doesn't come is a puppy!"