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Chapter 614 Warm water boiled frog

The stock price of the Telephone and Telegraph Group also began to rise. Many analysts believed that, without the burden of Bell Labs, the Telephone and Telegraph Group's profits could increase by at least a large amount.

Not to mention that he also got a 2% stake in American Telecom, which is not a loss, or even a small profit.

It's just that compared to the glorious WorldCom, the news of the Telephone and Telegraph Group is a bit inconspicuous, even though the Telephone and Telegraph Group earns much more than WorldCom!
Most of the attention of the media and the telecommunications industry is on WorldCom. The acquisition of more than US$100 billion seems to be just a "not worth mentioning" small acquisition on WorldCom.

There are also rumors that Bernard Ebbes wants to swallow elephants and let WorldCom take MCI into his pocket. You know, MCI, which is mainly engaged in long-distance calls, can earn 185 billion dollars a year, while WorldCom only has Less than 80 billion US dollars, just like that, Bernard Ebes even dared to shout to eat MCI.

Before Bernard Ebes, British Telecom was flirting with MCI. British Telecom had already offered MCI a price of 190 billion U.S. dollars and wanted to merge with MCI. Already frighteningly high.

However, Bernard Ebes, knowing that British Telecom had already offered MCI an offer, dared to make an offer for MCI. Obviously, the amount of money he was going to offer for MCI was probably more than he imagined. many!

"If WorldCom can acquire MCI, then WorldCom will become America, the second telecommunications company to provide long-distance and local call services after Telephone and Telegraph, and also include broadband, mobile Internet and other services. The real emperor of the industry!"

The editor-in-chief of "Communication World" commented on the rumors of WorldCom. If WorldCom can buy MCI, then WorldCom will really have the strength to compete with telecom giants such as Telephone and Telegraph and Verizon. up.

But inside the telecommunications industry, including many analysts on Wall Street, some were intimidated by Bernard Ebbes, and he was given the title of "Mad King".

The news that WorldCom bought MFS with a lot of money and got involved in MCI Telecom, made headlines in America, and many technology and financial media are also rushing to reprint and report the news of WorldCom, Bernard Ebes "Telecom Emperor" The title also began to resound in America.

On the other hand, the news of the change of ownership of Bell Labs is not so conspicuous. On the one hand, the Telephone and Telegraph Group does not want to publicize it with great fanfare. After all, this is not a good thing. Except for people, the rest of the people will not pay too much attention, most people still care more about news like Hollywood stars.

The change of hands of Bell Labs is nothing less than a big news in the scientific research industry. The name and status of Bell Labs are there. Many top scientific research experts are paying attention to the situation of Bell Labs.

When they heard that the new funder was Song Yang, many big cows in the technology industry were quite surprised. What is the difference between the Bell Labs in your hand and the Bell Labs in the era of the Telephone and Telegraph Group!
For these rumors, Song Yang didn't care too much, but sent another research and development fee to Bell Labs.

Only when Bell Labs starts to operate again, those in the scientific research industry will see the changes in Bell Labs, and only when Bell Labs continues to add new experimental equipment and new research and development results can it attract more people Influx into Bell Labs.

However, with Song Yang pouring money in, Bell Labs no longer needs to worry about the sudden food shortage one day. Stay in the lab and watch.

As a "sacred place" in the scientific research industry, as long as Bell Labs doesn't engage in showy operations and has stable experimental funds, Bell Labs will be able to slowly recover in a few years.

Song Yang doesn't expect Bell Labs to be able to reach the peak state. Winning the Nobel Prize is like finding something out of a bag. Don't lose money!
"Java is the most useful programming language in the world. Now the world's mainstream systems have introduced Java technology, from Microsoft to Apple to IBM, as well as the Symbian system of Alcatel mobile phones, and of course the SUN system. Within, Java can support cross-platform!"

"Java is not just a programming language, it is a passport to the computer world!"

In a video, McNealy was standing in the center of the stage, shouting to the densely packed engineers from all over the world, which caused thunderous applause from the scene.

Bill Gates, who was watching the video, snorted and turned off the video on his computer. This video is from the segment of the Java Worldwide Developers Conference being held in San Francisco, and it is McNealy's opening speech.

In McNealy's words, one Java is enough for Microsoft, Apple, Linux, UNIX, Symbian, etc. As long as a set of software is developed using Java, it can be transplanted across platforms, and there is no need to look at it in the future. No matter what Microsoft looks like, as long as there is Java, it is enough.

McNealy didn't say he wanted to challenge the Microsoft system, but he aimed at Microsoft almost everywhere. Bill Gates really wanted to slap this kind of person who pushes his nose and face and jumps repeatedly.

Bill Gates propped his cheeks with his hands. He didn't know why so many people like to regard Microsoft as their opponent. It hasn't stopped for so many years. Obviously no one has ever defeated him, but there are still so many people rushing to die .

It would be great if they were all like Song Yang, Bill Gates couldn't help but think that although Song Yang did not make little trouble for Microsoft, and supported Netscape in private, Bill Gates saw all these small actions. In his eyes, but Song Yang has never touched Microsoft's bottom line. In terms of PC operating system, Song Yang is very interesting and has never tried it.

As for the mobile phone system, Bill Gates does not blame Song Yang. Microsoft has been in the mobile phone system industry for so many years, but it has not come up with anything famous. As a result, the Symbian system occupies half of the mobile phone system. Microsoft can only launch The WP system is not as skilled as others, and Bill Gates has nothing to say.

And Song Yang also sent good things to Microsoft. The Hotmail mailbox saved Microsoft’s life and allowed Microsoft to enter the Internet industry. Sega consoles allowed Microsoft to enter the game console market they dreamed of. Gates has no opinion on Song Yang.

On the contrary, like Netscape, and McNealy's repeated horizontal jumps, Bill Gates is really impulsive, and it all jumped on his face. No matter how good the rich man is, he can't bear it!

The office door was pushed open, Microsoft Chief Technology Officer Myhrvold entered, and put a freshly released newspaper in front of Bill Gates, "You should read this, Bruno Song, it's really luck Well, with Bell Labs, the Telephone and Telegraph Group is really crazy, and Bell Labs can sell it!"

Myhrvold doesn't care about WorldCom, Telephone and Telegraph Group, and those tens of billions of dollars in mergers and acquisitions, Myhrvold is not interested, but as a technician, seeing Song Yang's acquisition of Bell Labs , Myhrvold is a bit greedy...

If Microsoft can take down Bell Labs, then Myhrvold is sure that Microsoft Research will become the number one among all company-level laboratories in the world, and even the federal-level laboratories in the United States may not be untouched. It's possible!

Bill Gates picked up the newspaper and glanced at it. He also understood that Song Yang's research and development capabilities were about to soar a lot, but it's really hard to say how much it will be useful.

Microsoft has its own research institute, and spends a lot of money on R&D every year, but for so many years, it has developed all kinds of so-called black technologies, and very few of them can be used, but they can't stop, because if you don't develop them, others may develop them. , took the opportunity to jam your neck, disgusting you with patents.

Bell Labs is well-known, but how much benefit it can bring to Song Yang, Bill Gates feels that it will take a while before he can see it slowly. For Song Yang, Bill Gates is not too much. Worry.

"Now is not the time to care about Bruno Song, Bruno Song is not Microsoft's current opponent!"

Bill Gates flipped through the newspaper and said to Myhrvold, "Now it's SUN and McNealy, Java has threatened the Microsoft system!"

Today, Bill Gates asked Myhrvold, the technical president of Microsoft, to clean up McNealy.

When McNealy heard what Bill Gates said, he couldn't help hesitating. To be honest, Java is indeed convenient to use. Whether it is Microsoft itself or those developers, it is much more convenient and less costly to have a set of general programming. many.

"If Microsoft refuses to use Java, I'm afraid there will be trouble on the side of Microsoft's software developers, and most importantly, on the side of Sun Corporation..."

"You don't need to think about SUN and McNeely!" Bill Gates said decisively, and he was never soft when dealing with his opponents.

"Microsoft is going to promote its own programming language, you should be ready for it?!"

Myhrvold paused for a moment, but still nodded. Microsoft has been guarding against Sun for a long time, and has prepared a set of its own programming language, which is ready to replace Java at any time.

"Microsoft expands the Java on the system, so that these programs written in Java can run on the Microsoft system, but cannot run on other platforms, and finally introduce Microsoft's own programming language to completely replace Java!"

Bill Gates said to Myhrvold that he was going to slowly kick Java out of the Microsoft system by boiling frogs in warm water. By the time McNealy reacted, the day lily was already cold, and the rest were just left and right. It's a lawsuit, which is too familiar to Microsoft. There are dozens of states in America, and there is no Microsoft who doesn't know which way the federal courts of these states are opening!
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