Chapter 142 Standardization

Chapter 142 Standardization

Chapter 142 Standardization

In the conference room on the third floor of NGN Company, more than a dozen blond-haired and blue-eyed Russian programmers gathered together.

The curtains in the conference room were closed, and in the dim light, the huge projection screen appeared unusually clear, even a little dazzling.

At this moment, what is displayed on the screen is a PPT that is so simple that it makes people speechless. As for the content of this PPT, it is so novel that it makes people astonished, because what it introduces is an operating system called "Android" that was just announced to be open source by Google the day before yesterday.

Today, the source code of this operating system has been placed on the Apache server, and any computer in the world can access and use it without worrying about copyright issues, because Google uploads the open source license at the same time as uploading the source code.

In order to promote this new operating system, Google has made a huge investment, not only investment, but also paid a huge price. On the day of launching "Android", Google announced that it would establish a global organization with the nature of an alliance in order to come up with a common standard.

However, despite the huge fanfare Google has created, with an attitude of "I can do it, I can do it, I can do it", the global market is generally not optimistic about it, believing that Google's investment in this operating system is completely a loss of money for publicity, and their efforts will not have any effect.

why?
The answer is simple. In today's world, the king of systems in the field of mobile communication equipment is the "Symbian system" that everyone needs to look up to. Last year, the number of mobile phones using the Symbian system exceeded 1 million worldwide. The key is that Nokia, the king of the mobile phone field, strongly supports the Symbian system. There are even rumors that Nokia is preparing to acquire Symbian.

Let's not talk about anything else. Among the mobile phone brands in the world today, which one does not use the Symbian system? There are only BlackBerry and Apple, which just emerged this year. And how much market share do the mobile phones of these two brands occupy?
The world's mobile phone operating program market is completely dominated by Symbian, and the market generally believes that this pattern is unlikely to change in the short term.

In other words, Google's jumping out to stir up trouble at this time is completely nonsense and has no future.

Furthermore, Google spent a lot of money when it acquired the Android team, and in the following two years, it also invested a lot in this project. Now that it has finally come up with something, it does not want to recover its investment by charging licensing fees, or even make a fortune, but suddenly announced that it would open source the source code and uploaded it to the Internet.

What's going on? Google is no longer involved in IT and is now doing charity? How is this possible?

To put it bluntly, the reason why Google promotes the open source of the Android operating system is, on the one hand, because it has its own business layout considerations, and on the other hand, because in the field of mobile operating systems, it faces a crushing advantage from Symbian.

Google has brought together so many mobile phone manufacturers and software vendors around the world to form a so-called mobile alliance, and the condition it has set is that the Android system is open source and does not charge mobile phone manufacturers system licensing fees. With Symbian having an absolute advantage, Google can only attract partners by offering free services. If it also charges, Android will probably not be able to survive in a situation where Symbian almost dominates the market.

Even so, there are not many companies in the global Internet market, or even in the entire IT industry, that are truly optimistic about the prospects of Android. The reason why so many companies have joined the alliance created by Google is mainly because the Android system does have its merits, and it is free.

However, no matter what the outside world thinks of the Android system, as a time traveler, An Rushong is indeed very optimistic about it. In fact, the reason why he created such an NGN software was not to compete with instant messaging software such as Tencent, ICQ or MSN on the PC side. The direction he was directly targeting has always been the mobile side.

Therefore, when the Android system was just launched, An Rushong gathered more than a dozen Russian programmers in the company. In the next four to six months, the secondary task of these Russian programmers was to move the PC-side NGN software to the Android system, that is, to develop an Android version of the NGN software.

Under the condition that the Android operating system is open source, it is not that difficult to achieve this task goal. For An Rushong today, the most important thing is to wait for the birth of the first Android phone.

As for why the task of porting NGN software to the Android system is a secondary task for the Russian programmers, the only reason is that the Russian programmers already have a very critical task being carried out. This task is closely related to a subsequent major version update of the NGN software. An Rushong attaches great importance to it. The most important thing is that this task has made certain progress.

A task briefing lasted nearly two hours and ended near noon. Before the meeting was officially declared over, An Rushong also announced a decision: considering the huge success of NGN software so far, the company plans to give a raise to all Russian programmers and increase everyone's salary by 20% at one time.

In addition, An Rusong also announced that the company has begun to consider accepting financing in exchange for shares. In order to protect the interests of every employee of the company, he plans to take out 2% to 5% of all the company's shares to build an equity pool. The company's veterans will all receive a portion of the equity in the equity pool.

The two resolutions he announced naturally drew collective cheers from the Russian programmers. However, An Rusong was not doing charity, he was just trying to win over these programmers. To put it in a more pleasant way, he was increasing the cohesion of the company. After driving the group of cheering Russians out of the conference room, An Rusong simply cleaned up the podium and took his laptop back to the office.

It was already half past eleven, and most of the company's employees had gone to lunch. Only the Russian programmers who had just adjourned the meeting were still packing up their things at their workstations.

Today, the company's operations are completely on track, and even the general affairs work has someone specifically responsible for it. Jiang Xiuyuan, the assistant to the president, currently serves as the director of the general affairs office.

In order to support his mistress, An Rushong made a decision after Jiang Xiuyuan joined the company. The latter signed a catering contract with several nearby catering companies. All employees living in the company dormitory will be provided with three meals a day free of charge by the company.

Of course, An Rushong himself rarely eats in the company. Mainly because he has been very busy in recent days and has not spent much time in the company, let alone eating in the company.

Today was the same. He had already agreed with Han Meiyan that he would go to Sacred Heart Hospital to accompany her at noon today. As a man, he must keep his word, so he simply packed up his things in the office and then went out.

Also in the past few days, An Rushong and Han Meiyan have been in frequent contact. Ever since Liu Taiming became paralyzed, this woman has completely let herself go. She really rejected the suggestion from the Sacred Heart Hospital to perform nerve recovery surgery on Liu Taiming. The reason was that she could not let her husband take that kind of risk. After all, the success rate of the operation was only 70%.

Han Meiyan's decision to refuse the hospital's decision to perform surgery on her husband naturally brought her some criticism from the outside world, especially from within the Liu family. However, these accusations mainly believed that she refused the surgery because she was worried that Liu Taiming would die during the surgery, which would result in her not being able to share Liu Taimin's inheritance. However, no one attributed the cause of Liu Taiming's death to her.

At present, the biggest suspect in the murder of Liu Taiming is still Liu Taihe. The injury on his leg does not hinder his movements, but in order to avoid being summoned by the prosecution, this guy has been staying in the hospital and refused to come out. At the same time, he has used various means to calm the situation, including compromising with Han Meiyan.

In the past few days, Han Meiyan has been negotiating with Liu Taihe, and the two parties have reached a final settlement on the equity issue of Damusan Holdings. In addition to these shares, it is said that Han Meiyan will also be able to obtain more than ten properties donated by Liu Taihe.

Of course, An Rusong didn't know the details, because although Han Meiyan let him sleep with her and even agreed to any shameful postures and requests, she refused to tell An Rusong anything about money. Even now, An Rusong didn't know how much money this woman had made from Apple's stock.

At the entrance of Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital, An Rushong drove his Mercedes-Benz into the main gate. When he was about to enter the ground parking lot, he saw several people walking towards him from the direction of Building D inpatient building, and their target was obviously the parking lot.

At this time, there were many people in the hospital compound, so An Rushong didn't pay attention to those people. He just found a parking space and parked the car.

Just as he got off the car, the group of people happened to walk to the entrance of the parking lot and the two sides walked towards each other.

Even at this time, An Rushong did not notice this group of people. He fiddled with the car keys in his hand and walked quickly with his head down.

"Hey! Mr. An!" Just as the two parties were about to pass each other, a woman in the opposite group suddenly spoke up.

An Rushong still didn't stop. He didn't realize that the other party was talking to him at all.

"Mr. An," the woman called him again. This time, not only the woman spoke, but a young man following him also stretched out his hand to block An Rushong.

An Rusong stopped only after the young man reached out his hand to stop him. He looked up at the young man, then turned to look at the woman, and asked in surprise: "Are you talking to me?"

(End of this chapter)