1991 Starting from the core

"Then why ignore IBM?" Yang Yiwen continued to ask.

Su Yuanshan smiled: "I can't explain it in a few words, but think about it, how does IBM make you feel? In other words, when you think of IBM launching a browser, do you think it is a good match?"

The three of them thought for a moment and shook their heads at the same time.

Carly smiled and said: "IBM is like an aristocratic gentleman. It doesn't have the temperament of the Internet."

"Bingguo!" Su Yuanshan snapped his fingers and praised: "Yes, IBM has always been superior... Even the personal computers they launched are so noble and awkward. So much so that now in the field of personal computers Being beaten by Dell, Compaq and HP...you know, IBM is still the leader in personal computers!"

"This kind of aristocratic gentleman can just be an enterprise-level customer. If he wants to enter the field of browsers for individual users, he should just go to bed sooner or later."

"As for SUN... (the last chapter was written in Oracle)"

The three people looked at him at the same time.

Because Su Yuanshan just said that he would fight SUN to the death.

Everyone wants to know why Su Yuanshan wants to fight against SUN and why he has the confidence to fight against SUN.

As a veteran IT company founded in the 1980s, Sun Microsystems' origins are extremely orthodox - as we all know, the success of Silicon Valley is inseparable from Stanford University.

SUN was founded by elites from Stanford University.

SUN, although it means "day". But it's actually an abbreviation of three words.

Stanford University Network—Stanford University Network.

Just listen to this word and you will know how upright and proud it is.

In the past ten years, it has always taken the route of combining software and hardware, or in other words, Apple's route. But unlike Apple, which focuses on individual users, its direction has always been focused on enterprise users.

In addition to its own processor, the Sparc processor based on the reduced instruction set, it also has its own SunOS semi-open source operating system based on BSD Unix, which was later renamed Solaris, and SunOS was described as the kernel of Solaris - actually It's still Unix.

Operating system on the left, processor on the right - that's very Apple.

It is said that armed with sharp weapons, murderous intention arises from within.

Relying on these two magic weapons, SUN began to compete head-on in the enterprise market with companies specializing in minicomputers and workstations such as DEC - Digital Equipment Corporation (Digital Equipment Corporation), HP (HP), and SGI (Silicon Graphics).

In the old time and space, relying on the success of JAVA, SUN almost defeated these "weak" opponents in a ravaging manner until they met IBM and Microsoft.

After the success of JAVA, SUN also created the Java standard development organization JCP. At the same time, a large number of companies have adopted the Java language, which made SUN so arrogant that it did not realize that as a (tool-based) language, tools are crucial.

So when it came to its senses and began to invest heavily in related development projects through acquisitions such as NetBeans and Forte Software, IBM gave it a head-on blow.

——IBM released the open source Java development environment Eclipse.

As a result, many third-party tools began to use Eclipse as a business platform for their own business, sharing files with other third-party Java tools.

(Of course... In view of the great urine of Big Blue, it is inevitable that Eclipse will eventually be killed by IDEA, a direct relative of JAVA - the full name is IntelliJ IDEA.)

As for facing Microsoft, that goes without saying.

In the late 1990s, when Microsoft attacked SUN, it was to attack its son, the wintel alliance. How could the little Sun be able to resist it?

So when the Internet winter came, SUN, a technology giant with a market value of more than 200 billion US dollars and the second largest market value, collapsed, and was finally sold to Oracle for less than 7.5 billion US dollars.

This is SUN's past life. (If you are interested, you can search for it yourself...I won’t continue to mention the word count.)

…

But now, none of this has happened yet.

Java is not even an infant, let alone open source organizations such as Spring and Apache that have brought it to the throne of the king in later generations. These two organizations are not there yet.

At this time, SUN was just a low-end version of Apple—the one without Steve Jobs.

Or the rising sun.

It's just right to be Yuan Xin's opponent - press it down!

And in the long run, browser fees can or must be given up, databases can be turned into open source projects, and website building tools can be turned into online website building systems - the kind that provide various website building modules to provide A system for users to create personal homepages.

All of these can be lost, but CC language cannot be lost.

Because it is not just a language, but a description language for the vast content of the future Internet. It is the foundation and the carrier. It is the "JAVA" of the new era!

When Su Yuanshan analyzed the future of several major tools and software like a cocoon, and talked about it, Carly's eyes finally lit up like Yang Yiwen's.

She stared closely at Su Yuanshan's thin face, feeling constantly in her heart.

Could this guy really be a child favored by God?

Oh...he doesn't believe in God.

But why does he have God-like vision and can see the future of the entire Internet clearly!

Yes, Carly didn't have the word "prediction" in mind.

Because although Su Yuanshan's analysis is based on "prediction", his logic is thorough and rigorous, and there is nothing that can be overturned - as if he has witnessed it with his own eyes.

What he says will make people unconsciously believe that he is right.

Carly thought of what Su Yuanshan had been saying about Internet thinking—maybe this is Internet thinking?

Just like a science fiction author, he takes himself into that world and then stands in that world and observes the future.

…

Naturally, Su Yuanshan didn't know how much shock he had brought to Carly. He paused and continued to make arrangements.

"Yuanxin is not a small company. It is a small business and does not need to focus on the rice in each bowl. We must take a long-term view, such as staring at the pot, staring at the chopping board, and even staring at the land!"

“If a giant only focuses on the gains and losses of a certain software—of course, provided that this is not its core software—then it can become a giant, but it cannot be called great in any case.”

Su Yuanshan thought of Microsoft as he spoke.

In the previous life, Microsoft's strangulation of Netscape can be said to be Netscape's own suicide - from 1993 to 1995 when it went public, Netscape was the undisputed leader in the browser market, and Microsoft didn't even have the desire to compete with it.

But as Netscape expanded to the point where it tried several web application systems based on browser operations, Microsoft was alarmed and began to hurriedly purchase a browser license from a company called Telescope Entertainment, using which it developed the Internet. Explorer.

In Microsoft's eyes, the browser is just one of the application software based on its operating system.

If the operating system is compared to a shopping mall, then Microsoft is the owner of the shopping mall, other software companies are the merchants, and other software is the products developed by the merchants.

As a mall developer, Microsoft does not need to open a store in its own mall to compete with its own merchants.

This is probably the reason why Microsoft did not choose a browser, but chose website building tools as its commercial software development project.

(Note: It’s just one person’s opinion, but judging from Microsoft’s behavior behind it, Microsoft’s actions and reasons against Netscape make sense. After all, Microsoft is not a certain company... you know)