Rebirth of the Tech Madman

Chapter 977 Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs

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Don’t forget, Tang it is known as the father of electronic spreadsheets-his first pot of gold was the world’s first electronic spreadsheet software cgrid written by him, and became a killer on the personal computer platform. From the application.

In other words, Tang Huan is also a programmer who compiles code, and in the circle, he is highly skilled and experienced.

Therefore, when he saw the “criminal evidence” on the laptop, the richest man reacted calmly and made a judgment with certainty. This is in the context of the increasingly fierce competition between Netscape and Philosophy. Or some engineers who are sloppy have vented insulting words in the code constants.

Of course, it should not be visible to ordinary users, it only appears during debugging.

For example, the program pops up a dialog box with the prompt message “The philosophical engineer is a shit”-there is reason to believe that no matter if you click the “Yes” or “No” button, you can feel it in the heart of the person involved. The morbid “cool”.

How to put it to say, this kind of thing, if it is applied to the level of personal behavior, is a prank Bojun smiled; if it is raised to the level of company attitude, it will make the corporate relationship stiff.

But the problem is that Netscape, a little bit, has jumped up and down in the same way as philosopher software, so how can you care about one more nasty talk?

Therefore, under this circumstance, Zheru Software really does not deserve to be irritated-if you are serious, you will lose, and it will help the other party to hype popularity.

After Tang Huan quickly cleared his mind, he slowly closed the laptop.

Jin Yan, who is full of momentum, don’t know what the old man is thinking. He stared at his big bright eyes, and eagerly said: “Dad, I just studied the email bomb so clearly-or should I teach these bastards?”

“I don’t know the sky is high and the earth is thick!” Tang Huan snorted, “Besides, the dog bit you, do you want to bite back?”

Jin Yan retorted unconvincedly: “I don’t know if I took a stick and hit it back?”

Tang Huan raised his hand, nodded weakly at his son, and finally turned his head and said to Lin Qingxian, “Look at him, so I won’t cause trouble for me.”

Lin Qingxian rolled her eyes in dissatisfaction, “You patiently explain why the child can be disobedient.”

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The affairs of the richest man are complicated. This kind of unclassified spitting incident means that the left ear goes in and the right ear goes out.

However, the booming Internet has always been a place where the excitement is not too big.

Soon, when scanning files, a computer security expert from Symantec found a “backdoor” with insulting words in the netscape_navigator program of Netscape browser when scanning files. It was regarded as a big gossip and belonged to The technical community of the special small circle spread to a wider range of ordinary users to visit the space, and even attracted the attention of the traditional media.

I don’t know if it’s because the attribute values ​​of the new things on the Internet are too high, so that when there is a slight disturbance, people will be fussing around. The two parties’ Netscape and Philosophy software have not yet spoken out, and the outside world just The emperor was in no hurry and the **** hurriedly started the discussion.

Without commenting on whether the program code is right or wrong with insulting words, what industry observers worry about is whether the irregular behavior of engineers during Netscape’s product development means that there is real truth in the software. “back door”.

For those more entertaining insults, the general view is that Netscape’s insiders, because of their inferior skills, vent their feelings of anger and corruption.

The reason why I sit on the side of philosophical software is not because of the subtle mentality of bullying and fearing hardship, but based on a long-standing fact-the rise of philosopher software is really relying on technology, not unscrupulous commercial oppression. .

Otherwise, Zheru Software will not have a well-recognized reputation in the industry.

Some people in the IT circle who have a competitive relationship with Zheru Software have become more and more intriguing about the disapproving reaction of this incident.

Wen has no first, Wu has no second.

People who rely on technology for food are more concerned about each other’s level.

Competitors who stand at the feet of philosophers and look up, although they are unwilling to admit that they are inferior to others, they are subconsciously convinced, and from this, another subtle psychology arises-you Netscape said, “philosopher engineers are a bunch of Shit”, what are those of us who are at a disadvantage?

There are also people with a broader vision, jumping out of these superficial quarrels, and examining this incident from the height of the entire software industry.

The more Netscape’s engineers are so reluctant to speak, the more it shows how incompetent Netscape is in competing with Zheru Software’s browser products.

Based on the industry dynamics over the years, it is not difficult to infer that not only Netscape, but also more companies in the software industry have been suppressed by the dominant position of Zheru Software.

A vivid analogy, namely “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”, can be used to summarize and explain the current situation of the software industry.

Of course, the strong side of the world is the philosopher software company; the weaker side that is pleasing to the eye and following the same step is represented by Netscape, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, ibm, Microsoft, novell, and seven companies. .

The strong is called the strong because Zheru Software is a well-deserved “all-round champion”. Its product line includes operating systems, office software, enterprise databases, programming development languages, e-mail servers, Web site servers, and browsers. Technical solutions and application implementation solutions for servers, middleware, etc.

The reason why the weak are called the weak is because they are in the process of competing with philosopher software companies. The battle front between the two armies is often only a part of the product.

Among them, Gates, who is known as the ideal of building a software empire, led by Microsoft, and Philosophy Software have the longest battle line, including operating systems, office software, programming development languages, browsers, etc., but this is only part of it.

The enterprise market has always been Microsoft’s shortcoming-for example, large databases. Previously, it had jointly developed a relational database project called “sql_server” with Sybase System, but the two parties had not waited until the completion of the project, and announced their breakup. As a result, Microsoft hasn’t had an enterprise-level database until now.

Contrary to the situation with Microsoft, ibm, which has lost outright by personal computer standards. It is fighting endlessly with philosopher software in the enterprise-level market.

Or take the large-scale database, Big Blue has a series of database products represented by the relational database db2, which have been tested and tested for long-term reliability, and the relational database ebase of Zheru Software, which is an important competitor to each other.

Especially after the successful acquisition of Lotus Software last year, Big Blue and Zheru Software have another place to compete, that is, the collaborative office software market.

The competition between Sun Microsystems and Zheru Software is basically reflected in the enterprise-level market. Workstations and servers supported by risc microprocessor sparc and operating systems, as well as the programming language java, which has been hot recently, also reveal a little extra. The meaning of the battle between platforms and standards.

Compared with Netscape in the browser field and Oracle in the field of large-scale relational databases, it has a high-profile competition with Zheru Software for fear that others may not know it. Novell competes with Zheru Software in the field of network operating systems and in the field of programming and development languages. The relationship is a lot more “old-fashioned”.

This is the story of the current it version of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”!

Because this associative metaphor inspired by Netscape’s internal technical staff who could not bear the heavy competitive pressure and vent their “exports as dirty” vividly outlines the current software industry and even the power pattern in the IT field, so just Presented in front of the world, it quickly became popular and became a popular allusion of “if you don’t know it, then old-fashioned”.

In this regard, although the outside world talks about it, the industry’s response has been much colder.

In front of the fact that Philosopher Software’s current status is undisputedly relying on its own technical strength and dignifiedly won back, they said to Netscape’s programmers that “philosopher engineers are shit” and let those in competition. Among the weaker people, even with the general discomfort of “Where shall I swing”, the it version of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” makes the frustrated have to look at an embarrassing situation awkwardly—— It turned out that I played the role of foil so well!

No one wants to be uncovered, not to mention that this is also about the dignity of standing still.

It is no exaggeration to say that the it version of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” allows people outside the circle to understand the current industry pattern intuitively and vividly, and at the same time, it also intensifies and clarifies the conflict of interests in the circle. .

The following industry trends also seem to confirm the escalation of the contradiction in the IT field-everyone’s anger has been hooked up consciously or unconsciously.

The Spring Developer Conference of Philosophers, which has a history of more than ten years, is about to arrive once a year.

The authority of this event in the industry and the significance of the weather vane attracted almost all the attention of the IT circle, which in turn made similar activities tacitly avoid the edge.

But since last year, this situation has changed-for example, Oracle tried to spoil the stage.

By this year, the Oracle-led nc alliance conference and the Sun Microsystems-led java development conference are even more two-line attacks, quite an attempt to push the philosophers spring developer conference into a situation where they are under the enemy.

The intention of this kind of group fight is second. The key problem is that compared with the past, the nc alliance conference and java development conference have received unexpected responses, and the momentum has been catching up with the philosopher spring developer conference.

For example, ibm has made it clear that it is developing computers under the nc specification and is also writing new software products in java.

Not to mention the activity of Netscape. While advocating the status of its own browser as the nc platform operating system, it also handed over the powerful functions of scripting language execution in the browser to java, and even reached agreement with Sun Microsystems. Agreement, plans to use java to write a new browser program.

However, at present, Netscape CEO Jim Barksdale first needs to solve a few thorny issues.

The layman sees the excitement and the insider sees the doorway-“The philosophical engineer is a pile of shit”, this sentence is really cool, but it does not mean that there is no responsibility afterwards.

No matter how fierce the competitive relationship is, the company level must abide by the minimum ethics and cannot condone such “inconsistent” behavior.

The most valuable corporate users have always had a “stable” attitude first, and they have reason to believe that-Netscape will definitely not allow the use of “philosophical engineers is a shit” in its main products. Things with meaningless functions, but this situation still occurs, which means that Netscape’s products, under non-standard management, may have more real “back doors.”

This public relations crisis has made another real problem more prominent, and that is Netscape’s profitability.

The single product line of Netscape is a superficially experienced Netscape, and it is inherently flawed. However, it has to die with the extremely powerful Philosopher software in the browser market-it is strange to make a lot of money!

Jim Barksdale, the CEO of Netscape founder Jim Clark, who specially dug from AT&T , still has two brushes. After careful consideration, he came up with a solution. Plan, and held a huge press conference.

Without waiting for reporters to fan the flames, Jim Barksdale first clarified the “philosopher engineer is a shit” incident, “We have already noticed the protest from the philosopher software company. I regret this – this is Personal behavior is definitely not instructed by the company.”

After flipping this controversial topic lightly, Jim Barksdale excitedly talked about Netscape’s new product plans.

“Our browser product will usher in the most important update.”

“In order to better express the extraordinary effect of this update, we decided to change the product name from the original netscape_navigator-Netscape navigator, to netscape_communicator-Netscape communicator, and divide it into two versions. , Namely standard_-standard version and gold_-gold version, the difference is that the latter has more functions than the former, and requires an upgrade fee.”

As soon as this statement came out, everyone in the audience immediately whispered. Because of the mode of operation of netscape_communicator, he inevitably picked up the wisdom of others and learned from Zheru Software.

It seems that Netscape is so crazy that it began to deliberately find excuses for charging.

Jim Barksdale ignored such criticisms and continued to point the country: “At the same time, Netscape plans to expand its business tentacles into a new field with unlimited prospects.”