Rebirth of the Wild Age

The launch of DJI's unmanned aerial camera has not attracted much attention from the scientific and technological circles, because there is no similar company in China. As for the well-known foreign colleagues, they are continuing to develop single-rotor aircraft, and they only sell airplanes. They want to play aerial photography and buy their own cameras to install them.

The big news in the tech 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 abroad than the former, and it is boiling even at home. For example, in a software company like Kingsoft, the entire management is paying attention to it, and employees are also discussing this when they are eating.

PeopleSoft is a large multinational software company with offices or branches all over the world, with a market value of billions of dollars. Just last year, PeopleSoft also successfully acquired J.D. Edwards, one of the four largest software companies in the United States, which caused PeopleSoft's stock price to skyrocket and profits soared.

No one thought that PeopleSoft, one of the four major software companies in the United States, was acquired by another “Big Four” (Oracle) only a year after acquiring one of the “Big Four”.

At the very beginning, Oracle Civilization wanted to hostile takeover and wanted to kill the two brands of PeopleSoft and J.D. Edwards.

Of course PeopleSoft did not want to, and soon sued Oracle for violating the fair competition law and the antitrust law. Unfortunately, the public relations were not done well enough, and the US court was on Oracle's side. Subsequently, PeopleSoft pulled out the US Department of Justice and the European Commission to help, and successfully stopped Oracle's hostile takeover.

Oracle was forced to postpone the deadline for acquiring PeopleSoft for the sixth time, and immediately changed its acquisition measures, agreeing to retain PeopleSoft's brand and technical employees in the future, and continuously raising the purchase price, causing PeopleSoft shareholders to shake their will. Faced with the temptation of money, those PeopleSoft shareholders are not even willing to start the "poison pill plan," because although it can keep the company, it will damage the interests of shareholders. In order to sell the company smoothly, PeopleSoft shareholders simply fired the CEO. This is the end of the capital-controlled enterprise.

After 18 months of discussions on the acquisition, Oracle finally acquired PeopleSoft at a cost of 10.3 billion U.S. dollars.

Don’t blame PeopleSoft’s shareholders that only money is in the eyes. If the entire acquisition process is expressed in numbers, it looks like this: 5.1 billion, 6.3 billion, 7.3 billion, 9.4 billion, 7.7 billion, 8.8 billion, 10.3 billion, transactions!

In the middle of the two negotiations, the quotation was lowered because PeopleSoft, whose stock price has been rising, caused its stock price to plummet because of the reverse takeover. The decline has been getting worse, Oracle suddenly raised its offer to more than 10 billion U.S. dollars, and PeopleSoft shareholders immediately sold the company overjoyed.

Although this acquisition cannot change the international software industry, its impact is absolutely far-reaching.

As for China, people are still focusing on Lenovo’s acquisition, while online game players are attracted by another news: Excalibur Network suddenly announced after two postponements that "Shan Hai Jing Zhi Sou Shen Ji" will be held on January 18, 2005. Open the public test without deleting files.

Suddenly, Sohu, Sina, Netease, Yahoo, Sogou, Tianya, 17173... domestic well-known websites, including the enemy station Baidu, were full of "Shan Hai Jing" game advertisements, especially the QQ pop-up window. It pops up several times a day.

Song Weiyang's influence is true, and many paper-based official media "help" promote it, hailing "Shan Hai Jing" as "a banner of national online games."

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

Ninetowns, meeting room.

President Zhu asked anxiously, "Lao Jiang, when can you get ready?"

"You 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 electronic physics, and previously worked as a technical consultant at Hewlett-Packard (China). In order to win the agency rights of "World of Warcraft", Ninetowns deliberately hired Jiang Huanxing as the technical director to ensure that the technology of Ninetowns can meet the rigid requirements put forward by Blizzard and Vivendi.

Mr. Zhu said: "The progress has to be accelerated, and it can't be delayed too long. The "Shan Hai Jing" is about to start its public beta!"

Jiang Huanxing rubbed his face and said, “I’ll go all out. My technical team has been working overtime for the past two months, and everyone’s condition is very exhausted. I wonder if the overtime pay should be increased, otherwise the technicians will raise Can't afford to be passionate."

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

Tian Jian is the founder of another time-space NGA forum, a veteran and die-hard Blizzard fan who was dug by Ninetowns because of the localization of "Warcraft 3". Yilidan's English lines were originally "you are not ready", but Tian Jian translated it into "you are seeking your own dead end". It can be said that it has achieved very good localization.

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

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

Tian Jian smiled and said: "Boss, I don't think you need to worry too much. "World of Warcraft" is an invincible game. It is impossible to beat at this stage. Don't look at the commercials of "Shan Hai Jing" now, and the reputation is good. Very, but it’s hard to tell the results after the actual launch. At the time, "Miracle", "A3", "Endless Mission" were not an overwhelming propaganda offensive, which was not a word-of-mouth and expected high to explode, but few went online. Months will not work."

"You haven't played "Shan Hai Jing" yet?" Mr. Zhu asked.

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

Mr. Zhu couldn't cry without tears in his heart. He said: "I sent someone to participate in the closed beta of "Shan Hai Jing" and also sent someone to play "World of Warcraft". The core gameplay of the two games is similar to more than 80%. , And "Shan Hai Jing" still occupies the advantage of local culture, how can you say I am not worried?"

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

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

"It's a coincidence. Could it be plagiarism?" Tian Jian's first reaction was this. He is a super Blizzard fan and in his heart Blizzard is No. 1 in the world.

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

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

Zhu always has enough reasons to feel depressed. If the gameplay of the two games is not so similar, then even if "Shan Hai Jing" is so fun, he will not have a strong sense of crisis. Just like theaters showing excellent science fiction and romance movies at the same time, movie fans like to watch what they watch because of different audiences. If two excellent sci-fi movies are released at the same time, it would be terrible, and they will definitely play their heads when grabbing the box office.

I also blame Song Weiyang for being too insidious. The few shit-chucking sticks he threw delayed the time for Ninetowns to obtain the agency rights for half a year, and the corresponding technical and localization work was also delayed. Otherwise, facing the pressing propaganda offensive of "Shan Hai Jing", Jiucheng will now be able to launch "World of Warcraft" ahead of schedule.

...

China Normal University.

There are still a few days before the final exam, Doudou is already going crazy and is reciting "Mao Si" frantically in his dormitory. She never listened to this thing in class, and even recorded several times of skipping class, and once even was spotted by the teacher by name.

High mathematics is also easier to take exams 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 it took half an afternoon to sleep.

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

Suddenly the phone rang, Doudou grabbed the phone stupidly: "Hey, who...playing CS online? Boss, have you made a mistake? The final exam will be next week... OK, I'll change it too. Mind, you go to the Internet cafe to turn on the machine first, and I will ride there right away."

After getting up and washing her face with clean water, Doudou was too lazy to take care of her personal image, her hair was tied into a ponytail, and she picked up a backpack and left. She walked out of the bedroom and turned around and asked, "How many sisters, who wants to have supper? I will bring her back tonight!"

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

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

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

Doudou laughed: "There are free midnight snacks, and you still complain so much? It's only 100 kilograms. What kind of fat will be lost. Okay, I'll go now."

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

Doudou grinned and said: "Use it, just use it as you say it, you are still so polite."

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

The Soft School of China Normal University was originally a model college. Just two years after its establishment, the number of students in the school was not large, and the number of girls was even smaller. Therefore, in Doudou’s dormitory, only two are students of the same major, and the others are in other departments.

There are also two computers in the dormitory. Doudou's computer can be used casually, and she even posted the Internet password. Another girl’s computer is very expensive. She usually covers the case and monitor with gauze. Whoever touches her computer is like having her father’s vengeance.

Doudou often brings back food to share. Several girls in the dormitory have been fattened by her, and the girl who said she wants to lose weight eats 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 is incompatible with Doudou.

The two of them are in the same class, and the whole class is just the few girls who are enjoying the treatment of Zhongxing Pengyue. The problem is that Doudou is the most dazzling moon in this round, and he is directly regarded as the class flower by those stinky boys. I don’t know who made the review and when it was made. Anyway, no one is called Doudou’s name. I usually call "Banhua" when I see it.

In addition, Doudou is very generous, not only allows his roommates to play on the computer, but also actively provides the Internet password, which makes it even more stingy for another girl. They become enemies once and for all.

"Just use everything you said, you're still so polite... Tsk tsk tsk," After Doudou had gone far, Zhou Yue of bed two learned Doudou's speech, and said with a look of disdain, "Fake and generous buy people's hearts, who will pay? I don’t have money to buy a computer. I have a Dell brand computer at home. If it weren’t for my mother’s fear of delaying my studies, I would have moved the computer to school a long time ago."

Zhang Nuo was a little bit uncomfortable, and immediately helped Doudou speak: "Zhou Yue, can you stop talking ill of others secretly, just say anything in front of Jing Yan!"

"It's up to you!" Zhou Yue replied.

Zhou Yue is not the girl with a computer, but a major in Chinese language and literature. She should be born in a rich family. She usually likes to make up. She has a lot of famous brands all over her body. She is pretty good. She has good academic performance since childhood.

The contradiction 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 64 polyphonic ringtone phone and took it to the dormitory to brag about how advanced and powerful it was. As a result, Doudou got a new phone in the second week, and when the bell rang, it turned out to be "East Wind Broken".

In recent years, mobile phones with 64 polyphonic ringtones have been regarded as the best, while Doudou's are MP3 ringtone phones, and you can freely edit the ringtones with your computer. This is the flagship phone launched by China Mobile this fall, with a price of up to 3888 yuan!

Zhou Yue was instantly robbed of the limelight, and even thought Doudou was deliberately disgusting her. Otherwise, why did she buy a 64 polyphony last week, and Doudou will switch to 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.

Zhang Nuo has a very good relationship with Doudou, and he immediately gets angry and said, "Don't allow others to be rich daughters!"

Zhou Yue smiled straightly: "Just how rich is she? There is no famous brand on her body, but the domestically made Shenzhou mobile phone is used."

Zhang Nuo sarcastically said: "The price of other home-made mobile phones is not cheaper than your Motorola."

"What's so great? Next year I will switch to the Nokia 7610!" Zhou Yue was angry when he mentioned this, and even moved out the Nokia 7610, which was priced at 5,400 yuan when it was first launched and has a built-in digital camera with 1 million pixels. .

"Bang Se." Zhang Nuo didn't bother to speak anymore.

Student Shen Weiran, a foodie who has been shouting to lose weight, suddenly hit a critical attack: "The jacket Jing Yan wore when she went out just now, I seem to have seen it while reading a fashion magazine at my aunt's house. It belongs to Givenchy."

"It must be a fake!" Zhou Yue said.

Shen Weiran laughed and said, "I haven't seen anyone wearing counterfeit brand names and deliberately tore the trademark. I have never heard of anyone who makes counterfeit clothes and hides brand-name trademarks, which are usually very obvious."

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

Doudou's hard-core girlfriend Zhang Nuo became interested, and went over to discuss: "Wei Ran, do you think Doudou is really a wealthy daughter? Then I will have to hug her thighs tightly in the future."

Shen Weiran took out a bag of snacks from somewhere, chewing and said, "How do I know? My parents are both small civil servants, and I have no chance to get in touch with the rich class. Well, would you like to eat some?"

Zhang Nuo grabbed a 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 became more and more vigorous and began to transform into Sherlock Holmes. "Zhu Jingyan, a classmate, has been very mysterious and low-key since the day she entered school. This Shenzhou computer, she said, is only 6000 Many ordinary goods. But once, I copied down various computer parameters and asked a senior in the computer department. Guess what that senior said?"

"How do you say?" Zhang Nuo asked quickly.

Shen Weiran said: "The senior speculated that Jingyan’s computer should be the most expensive model in China. Just don't let people see it!"

"Twelve thousand computers? I can't afford to pay for it!" Li Cui, who was chatting on QQ, instantly shook his hands with fright.

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

Zhang Nuo muttered, "Will Jing Yan's family be multimillionaires, right?"

Shen Weiran has a special detective temperament. He chewed on potato chips and said, "According to my guess, her family is probably a billionaire, so rich that she needs to be deliberately low-key. The Audi A8 mentioned by Zhou Yue, I was at school at the time. I saw it outside. I stopped at one stop from the school gate, for fear of being seen by my classmates, and the driver should be a full-time female driver."

"Can you guess this?" Zhang Nuo didn't believe it.

"That female driver was too diligent, and got off to help Jing Yan carry her bag~www.wuxiamtl.com~ Obviously she wanted to send her into the school gate, but she scolded her back with a few words." Shen Weiran suddenly raised her right hand, "the truth is only One. Our classmate Zhu Jingyan is a super-rich daughter hidden in the crowd, or a full-time female driver!"

...

The super-rich daughter Doudou, is yelling in the Internet cafe, playing CS online with a bunch of rough men.

These are all male classmates in the class, and a few of them circle around Doudou all day. None of them dared to confess. On the one hand, they were afraid of being rejected. On the other hand, whoever confessed became the public enemy of the boys in the class. Therefore, they played games with Doudou and often discussed programming knowledge with Doudou. .

If Doudou sets up an Internet company by herself, it is estimated that half of the boys in the class will be willing to accompany her to start a business. This sister is so popular, she is beautiful, she is outspoken, has a generous personality, and she is very good at programming. She is simply the perfect goddess in the eyes of computer professionals. A beauty who can play games and talk about programming with you is rarer than a panda!

"Sister, there is a sniper ahead, I will use my body to help you find the way! Who will support a few flashers?" a strong man shouted.

Doudou carried the M249 machine gun (B51 in CS) and said: "Which is so troublesome, first come a round of grenade to greet, and then throw flash bombs and smoke bombs to wait, sister, I will kill directly!"

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

"Da da da da da!"

The counter-strike controlled by Doudou, carrying a heavy machine gun, went on a rampage, and was followed by a group of followers licking dogs, and soon staged an extremely perfect group annihilation.

After dying countless times, it's time to get off the phone. Doudou announced: "The Book of Mountains and Seas" is about to be publicly tested. Let's enter the game during the winter vacation. Let's form a gang by ourselves. Who doesn't come is a puppy!"