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Because the smog was too serious, I was supposed to go to Shanghai that night, but the flight was cancelled. By the morning of the next day, it still didn't work, and it wasn't until noon that we finally took off.

On the plane, I happened to receive a call from Suning’s boss Zhang.

"Mr. Zhang, how are you?"

Zhou Buqi smiled, his tone relaxed and casual.

Boss Zhang was a little embarrassed and remained silent before sighing, "Mr. Zhou, I misunderstood you."

"Oh?" Zhou Buqi pretended not to understand, "What is this word?"

Boss Zhang said sincerely: "I didn't expect that IBM's technology in this field would be so poor. It was my misjudgment this time. Thinking of the sincerity and persuasion shown by Ziweixing some time ago, but on my side... Oh, it's really troublesome. What a big joke. Mr. Zhou, I want to thank you and apologize to you this time."

"You're welcome."

Zhou Buqi didn't take the score.

When Suning cooperated with Xiaonei.com, it paid a total of 25 million yuan in pit fees and 40 million yuan in liquidated damages, totaling 65 million yuan. Now that the money has arrived, I don’t have to worry about them too much.

It's okay to make mistakes, as long as you wake up in time, correct them in time, apologize with real money, and then fall into the right embrace of Ziweixing.

Boss Zhang said earnestly: "In the past few days, our senior executives have been meeting and repeatedly discussed the mistakes of rashness, rashness, blindness, and lack of information made in this cooperation with IBM. Fortunately, this time we cooperated with Xiaonei.com The cooperation exposed IBM's background. Without this cooperation, Suning.com might have been tied to IBM for many years, which would have caused immeasurable losses."

Zhou Buqi smiled and said, "It's not too late to make amends."

Boss Zhang said: "However, Suning.com's core strategy will not change. It will still focus on the market. At the technical level, Ziweixing's engineering institute will help."

Zhou Buqi assured: "No problem! If Ziweixing's team takes over, the technical problems can be completely solved. During the next five years of the contract, Ziweixing will also try its best to help Suning.com cultivate a capable team." The technical team came out."

"Thank you! Thank you!" Boss Zhang was very touched, regretful and helpless, and said with emotion, "At the critical moment, our own people are more reliable. The Americans are doing some conspiracy behind the scenes to deceive people. In e-commerce, In the outsourcing case, Suning.com spent a total of US$200 million on purchasing IBM systems, software, hardware and other fields."

It's really a trap.

Cheng Binghao took people to Suning.com and sent a detailed report email to Zhou Buqi.

The strategic cooperation agreement Suning signed with IBM last year is also for a period of five years.

Then, IBM was not polite at all.

For example, IBM software.

Many software applications for e-commerce are actually of little significance. Domestic digital offices are different from those in the United States. But IBM ignored this and asked Suning to pay for it.

And once you buy it, it has a five-year term, hundreds or even thousands of units.

The purchase of this genuine software alone cost US$15 million.

This is crazy!

Among all the domestic Internet companies, who can use 100% genuine software? It must be a mixture of genuine and pirated copies. Not to mention software, even operating systems, databases, and office suites can all be mixed together.

For example, if the demand is 1,000 sets, then buy 300-400 genuine sets and use them in the most critical positions. For the remaining less important positions, just work on pirated software.

Many genuine software in the United States are very expensive, especially B-side business software, which often costs thousands of dollars per set. Who can afford it?

Suning.com has a lot of money and is transforming into an e-commerce company. It doesn’t understand the Internet model at all. In addition, it is completely tied up by IBM... so it can only let it go and buy a lot of things at high prices.

Although I bought IBM's architecture, systems, software, databases, etc., they were all useless. After the team from Ziweixing Engineering Academy takes over, they will throw away all these products.

For example, for collaborative office software, IBM uses its famous Lotus_Notes, which was once the best online collaborative office software in the world. Suningyi purchased 1,000 upgraded and customized versions for a period of 5 years, spending a total of US$3.5 million.

Ziweixing’s outsourcing team will definitely not use this thing and will promote its own WeChat account in Suning.com.

Still, the hardware offerings are pretty good.

IBM's servers are the best in the world. The only drawback is that they are expensive.

Of the US$200 million investment, US$160 million was used to buy servers. Ziweixing can continue to use these servers after taking over.

Cheng Binghao was very happy about this.

It is now popular in the Internet industry to use low-end servers to maintain operational stability through the system's fault-tolerant mechanism. The high-end server itself will be more stable and smoother, which will make it easier for the outsourcing team he sends out to work.

Just like Musk's rockets, traditional rockets are expensive and very high-end. He adopts the Internet idea and creates a bunch of low-end materials to maintain stability through the system's fault-tolerant mechanism, which can greatly reduce costs. But if there are high-end materials, that would of course be better.

Zhou Buqi spoke highly of IBM's server quality.

Boss Zhang is not very interested. He does not understand technology. He is more concerned about the market. His strategic design for Suning.com is actually the sales route of the market. "Mr. Zhou, the cooperation between Suning.com and Xiaonei.com is not very successful. But that was caused by IBM. After your technical team took over Tesco, the cooperation between the two parties..."

Zhou Buqi had already prepared for this and interrupted him, "I'm afraid this won't work. Xiaonei.com has issued a formal statement and will no longer provide product links to third-party platforms."

"Can't it be changed?"

"cannot."

"Mr. Zhou..."

Boss Zhang is very disappointed. He has deeply felt the strong appeal of the school network among college students. If Suning.com can cooperate with Xiaonei.com for a long time, it will be difficult not to take off.

Zhou Buqi smiled and said: "The cooperation on campus group buying is really dead. You should have heard that the college students are angry this time, and the campus network cannot stand up to them. However, Ziweixing can cooperate with Suning.com on This level adopts a new way of cooperation.”

"oh?"

Boss Zhang felt his hope rekindled when he heard his friendly attitude.

Zhou Buqi said: "In addition to on-campus group buying, Ziweixing also has an online shopping business called 'Taobao Preferred Channel.' We will upgrade and revamp this business and turn it into a 'Preferred Channel.' In other words, in the future, not only Taobao's Products can be selected, and products from any other e-commerce platform have a chance to be selected.”

Boss Zhang had never heard of it, but thought it was very powerful, "Will it have the same effect as the school network?"

Zhou Buqi said calmly: "The turnover of the 'Taobao Preferred Channel' this year will reach 4 billion. At the same time, we are planning to launch a high-level strategic promotion business project."

Boss Zhang was very interested, "What does this do?"

Zhou Buqi smiled and said: "Ziweixing will use all its resources to help partners with marketing. Whether it is the number of views, registered users, or active users, there will be a significant increase. If Suning is interested, You can consult, cooperate, and become the first customer of this new business.”

Boss Zhang was more cautious about this, "Is it okay with Tesco?"

Zhou Buqi said: "Anyone can do it. Competition is competition, and cooperation is cooperation. Ziweixing has always advocated fairness, justice, openness and transparency. It will not block all promotion business of competitors because of the existence of competition like many companies do. ."

"good!"

Boss Zhang took a deep breath.

He was quite worried before.

Behind JD.com is Ziweixing. JD.com has developed so well in recent years because it has had a relatively deep cooperative relationship with Xiaonei.com in the past few years.

If Ziweixing can really maintain an equal footing and not suppress Suning.com because of its relationship with JD.com, it will really be a well-established and ambitious company.

…

The smog in the capital was so great that Zhou Buqi summoned Aunt Xue, Baoshan, Yaxian, Sun Wanran, Ning Lu, Sister Wu, Yang Mi, Dili Reya and many others to go south together.

Also, it’s winter and it’s too cold in the north.

After finishing the phone call, Zhou Buqi walked around on the plane. Some were reading, some were watching movies, some were chatting, some were surfing the Internet, and some were playing games...

Only Aunt Xue was different. She ran to the bedroom, laid out a yoga mat, and was doing yoga.

You work really hard to stay in shape.

Zhou Buqi stood at the door and said with a smile: "Auntie, in our family, you have the best figure, the sexiest and most enchanting one."

Aunt Xue glared at him and didn't want to talk to him.

"By the way, what are your plans for the beauty salon?"

"I haven't thought about it yet."

"It's up to you!" Zhou Buqi was speechless. He felt that the person with the worst business skills in the family was Aunt Xue, who was very indecisive. "I heard from Sister Bao that your eyes were red last night. Did you cry?"

"Where is it?"

Aunt Xue's face changed slightly, and she stopped doing yoga.

Zhou Buqi sighed, "If you have anything, just tell me, I can take care of you, you have to believe me."

Aunt Xue sat on the bed and gently wiped her sweat with a towel, "It's okay, I just remembered some things from the past."

"I thought I was lonely and cold."

"Stop talking nonsense!"

"I'll go to your room tonight. Let's talk about what's on our mind? Can I help you enlighten me?"

"Don't come here!" Aunt Xue rolled her eyes, not giving him a chance. "If you have this intention, hurry up and take care of Linlin's family affairs."

When he mentioned this, Zhou Buqi had a headache, "It's very frustrating to get divorced at such an old age. I have no experience in this."

Aunt Xue asked: "Will the family property be divided?"

Zhou Buqi said: "The division of family property is one thing, the key is to leave this home. Not just this home, my old father-in-law seems to be really in love and trapped in an emotional whirlpool. He has several homes, and not only must he leave This family also wants to cut off all contact with other families, and from now on I will only be devoted to that little wife."

Aunt Xue suddenly understood and said: "Every family has to share money, is that what it means?"

Zhou Buqi said: "Maybe, he seems to have two sons outside. Anyway, I will go over and help them control the situation. Just don't make things worse and affect the company's growth."