Reborn Tech Maniac

Chapter 895 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
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Don't forget, Tang IT is known as the father of the spreadsheet - his first pot of gold was by writing the world's first spreadsheet software, CGrid, which became an instant hit and became a killer on the personal computer platform. Derived from application.

In other words, Tang Huan is also a programmer who writes codes, and in the circle, he can be regarded as highly skilled and experienced.

Therefore, when he saw the "criminal evidence" on his laptop, Mr. Richest Man reacted calmly, but he also made a judgment with certainty—this was against the background of the increasingly fierce competition between Netscape and Zheru software. Or some out-of-the-ordinary engineer vented and compiled insulting words into code constants.

Of course, it should not be visible to normal users, only appearing when debugging.

For example, a dialog box pops up from the program, and the prompt message is "Philosophy and Confucianism Engineers are a piece of shit" - there is reason to believe that no matter whether you click the "Yes" or "No" button, the person concerned can feel a kind of Morbid "cool".

How to put it this way, if this kind of thing is considered at the level of personal behavior, it is just a prank by Bojun Yixiao; if it is elevated to the level of company attitude, it will stalemate corporate relations.

But the problem is that Netscape, a little guy who is already jumping up and down with Zheru Software, cares about one more bad word?
Therefore, in this case, Zheru Software is really not worth getting angry-if it is serious, it will lose, and it will help the other party to hype their popularity for nothing.

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

Jinyan, who is full of drive, doesn't know what his father thinks.He stared at the big bright eyes, gearing up his fists and said: "Dad, I just studied the email bomb clearly—how about I go and teach these bastards a lesson?"

"I don't know how high the sky is!" Tang Huan snorted, "Besides, if the dog bites you, do you want to bite back?"

Jin Yan retorted unconvinced: "Isn't it obvious that I picked up a stick and beat him back?"

Tang Huan raised his hand, nodded his son feebly, and finally turned to Lin Qingxia and said, "You keep an eye on him, so don't cause trouble for me."

Lin Qingxia rolled her eyes dissatisfied, "Please patiently explain how the child can be disobedient."

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The affairs of the richest man are complicated, and this kind of unclassy spitting incident goes in one ear and comes out the other.

But the booming Internet has always been a place where watching the excitement is not a big deal.

Soon, Symantec's computer security experts inadvertently discovered a "backdoor" with insulting words in the Netscape browser program Netscape_Navigator while scanning files. This was regarded as a big gossip and belonged to The technical community of a special small circle has spread to a wider space accessible to ordinary users, and has become so popular that it has even attracted the attention of traditional media.

I don’t know if it’s because the attribute value of new things on the Internet is too high, so that even the slightest sign of disturbance will be surrounded by people making a fuss—the Netscape and Zheru software of both parties involved have not yet spoken, and the outside world The emperor was not in a hurry and the eunuch started discussing anxiously.

Regardless of whether the program code contains insulting words or not, what industry observers are worried about is whether the irregular behavior of engineers during the product development process of Netscape Company means that there are real flaws in its software. "back door".

As for the more entertaining insults, the prevailing view is that the people inside Netscape, because they are not good enough, vent their frustrations with acid.

The reason why Zheru software sits on the side of Zheru software is not because of the subtle psychology of bullying the weak and fearing the hard, but based on a fact that has been formed for a long time-the rise of Zheru software really depends on technology, not unscrupulous commercial squeeze .

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

The disapproving reaction of some people in the IT circle who have a competitive relationship with Zheru Software to this incident is even more intriguing.

Wen has no first, Wu has no second.

People who rely on technology for a living are more concerned about each other's level.

The competitors who stood at Zheru's feet and looked up to him, although they were unwilling to admit that their skills were inferior to others, were subconsciously convinced, and this gave rise to another subtle psychology - you Netscape said, "Zheru Engineer is a piece of shit." Shit", then those of us who are at a disadvantage, what are we?
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 unscrupulous the Netscape engineers are, the more it shows how powerless Netscape is in competing with Zheru Software's browser products.

According to the industry dynamics in these years, it is not difficult to deduce that in the software industry, not only Netscape, but also many other companies are suppressed by Zheru Software’s dominant position.

We can use a vivid metaphor, that is, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", to summarize and explain the current situation of the software industry.

Of course, Zheru Software is the strong party that walks like a dragon and looks down on the world; the weaker party that is pleasing to the eye and following the pace is Netscape, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, IBM, Microsoft, Novell, and Borland. represent.

The reason why the strong is called the strong is that Zheru Software is a well-deserved "all-round champion". Technical solutions and application implementation solutions such as servers, middleware, etc.

The reason why the weak are called weak is because, in the process of their competition with Zheru Software, the battle front between the two armies is often only a part of the products.

Among them, Microsoft, led by Gates, who has the ideal of building a software empire, and Zheru Software have the longest front, including operating systems, office software, programming development languages, browsers, etc., but this is only a part.

The enterprise market has always been Microsoft's shortcoming - such as large databases.It had previously jointly developed a relational database project called "SQL_Server" with Sybase, but the two parties announced their breakup before it was completed. As a result, Microsoft still has no enterprise-level database that it can produce.

In contrast to Microsoft's battles, IBM, which is losing by PC standards, is a total loser.It is fighting endlessly with Zheru software in the enterprise market.

Still taking large-scale databases as an example, Big Blue has a series of database products that have been tested and tested for reliability, represented by the relational database DB2, and Zheru Software's relational database EBase, which are important competitors to each other.

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

The competition between Sun Microsystems and Zheru Software is also basically reflected in the enterprise market. The workstations and servers supported by the RISC microprocessor SPARC and the operating system Solaris, as well as the recently popular programming language Java, are also extraordinarily impressive. A little bit of platform and standard wars.

Compared with Netscape in the field of browsers, Oracle in the field of large-scale relational databases, and Zheru Software’s high-profile competition, Novell is in the field of network operating systems, Borland is in the field of programming development languages, and Zheru Software’s high-profile competition. The competitive relationship is much more "sophisticated".

This is the current IT version of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" story!

Because this associative metaphor inspired by Netscape’s internal technicians who vented their “dirty exports” under the heavy pressure of competition, vividly and vividly outlines the power structure of the current software industry and even the IT field. Presented in front of the world, it quickly became popular and became a popular allusion of "if you don't know it, you're old-fashioned".

Although the outside world is talking about this, the response from the industry is much colder.

In the face of the fact that Zheru Software's current status is undisputedly relying on its own technical strength to win back openly, it tells Netscape programmers that "Zheru engineers are a piece of shit", and let those who are competing The disadvantaged group of people among them, together with the general discomfort of "where should I put it?", the IT version of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" made the frustrated have to look at an embarrassing situation embarrassingly—— It turned out that I played the role of foil so well!
No one wants to be exposed, not to mention that it is related to the dignity of settling down.

It is no exaggeration to say that the IT version of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" not only allows people outside the circle to intuitively and vividly understand the current industry structure, but also intensifies and makes the interest disputes in the circle clearer. .

The following industry trends also seem to confirm that the contradictions in the IT field have escalated—everyone's anger has been aroused consciously or unconsciously.

Zheru Spring Developers Conference, which has a history of more than ten years, will soon be held once a year as scheduled.

The authoritative status and weathervane significance of this event in the industry has attracted almost all the attention of the IT circle, and thus made similar activities tacitly avoided the edge.

But since last year, this situation has changed - for example, Oracle tried to disrupt the situation with a confrontation.

This year, the NC Alliance Conference led by Oracle and the Java Development Conference led by Sun Microsystems are attacking on two fronts. They seem to be trying to push the Zheru Spring Developers Conference into a situation where there are enemies from both sides.

This kind of group fighting intention is secondary. The key issue is that, compared to the past, the NC Alliance Conference and the Java Development Conference have received unexpected responses, and the momentum is catching up with the Zheru Spring Developers Conference.

For example, IBM 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 level of activity of Netscape. While promoting the status of its own browser as an NC platform operating system, it also handed over the powerful function of script language execution in the browser to Java, and even reached an agreement with Sun Microsystems protocol, plans to write a new browser program in Java.

For now, though, Netscape CEO Jim Barksdale has a few thorny issues to tackle first.

A layman can watch the excitement, but an expert can watch the door - "Philosophical and Confucian engineers are a piece of shit". This sentence is indeed very refreshing, but it does not mean that there is no need to be responsible afterwards.

No matter how tense the competition relationship is, the company must abide by the minimum ethical norms and cannot condone such "out of tune" behavior.

The most valuable enterprise users have always put "steadiness" first, and there is reason to believe that Netscape will definitely not allow its main products to be mixed with such anti-use as "philosophical engineers are a piece of shit". Functions are meaningless, but this situation still happens, which means that Netscape products are under irregular management, and there may be more real "back doors".

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

The single product line is Netscape, which has a shallow qualifications and inherent defects, but it has to compete with the extremely powerful Philosopher software in the browser market-it is no wonder that it can make a fortune!

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

Without waiting for the reporter to fan the flames, Jim Barksdale first clarified the incident of "Zheru engineer is a piece of shit", "We have noticed that the protest from Zheru software company, I regret it-this is Personal behavior is definitely not the company's instigation."

After brushing off this controversial topic lightly, Jim Barksdale picked up his spirits and spoke impassionedly about Netscape's new product plans.

"Our browser product will usher in the most important update."

"In order to better express the extraordinary significance of this update, we decided to change the product name from the original Netscape_Navigator to Netscape_Communicator, and divided it into two versions. , namely Standard_Edition - Standard Edition and Gold_Edition - Gold Edition, the difference is that the latter has more and more powerful functions than the former, and requires an upgrade fee."

As soon as this remark came out, everyone in the audience whispered immediately, because of the operation mode of Netscape_Communicator, it was inevitable that they learned from Zheru software.

It seems that Netscape was so poor and crazy that it began to deliberately find excuses for charging fees.

Jim Barksdale ignored such criticisms and continued to point Jiang Shandao: "At the same time, Netscape plans to extend its business tentacles into a new field with unlimited prospects."

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(End of this chapter)