Reborn as a tycoon in Hong Kong

"Start entering the hotel's daily revenue and calculate the revenue data for the entire month."

"Deduct all expenses and calculate the profit for the month and the average daily profit."

In an extremely simple office software, as the relevant data is entered, the desired relevant results are quickly calculated.

On the other side, the manual team that specially hired accountants to conduct comparative statistics is still calculating.

"I declare that the development of office software has been successful!"

Lin Baicheng clapped his hands and announced loudly. For verification, this is not the first time for similar comparisons. The data processing function of office software is more convenient and faster than manual processing.

"Great!" "YES!" "Ouch~~".

R\u0026D staff such as Edyn Sherland and Peter Roslin cheered loudly. After several months of hard work, the goal was achieved and the results appeared.

This office software is actually very simple. It has only three main functions, namely word processing, data processing and database. There is nothing that can be done about it. After all, it is 1978, and functions such as image processing and video processing are simply impossible to implement.

Word processing is mainly used for text editing, typesetting, proofreading, etc. It allows office workers to quickly and easily organize various needs, improve office quality and efficiency, and achieve paperless office.

The main function of data processing is to process various data. The typical representative is the spreadsheet. The spreadsheet can calculate data from all walks of life. It is not only efficient, but also accurate and less error-prone.

The database is a place used to store data. The amount of data that the database can store is related to the computer's memory. The retained data can be easily viewed at any time.

Isabella clapped her hands and said: "BOSS has decided to hold a celebration party at the company tonight. No one is allowed to be absent. Let's have fun then."

"Wow!!"

There was a burst of howling like ghosts and wolves in the office.

Various parties have become a culture in the United States, so when Isabella asked Lin Baicheng for instructions on holding a celebration party, Lin Baicheng had no objection. If you want to make money in this country, you have to blend in instead of being out of place.

The company's office software has been developed, but for the company, this is only the first step. The next step is to sell the software. If the software cannot bring profits to the company, then there is no point in using the software no matter how useful it is.

However, the software has just been developed today, and there will be a celebration party tonight. Now is not the time to discuss this.

Those who attended the celebration party that night were all employees of New Century Software Company.

Lin Baicheng also participated. Except for a few female employees at New Century Software Company, all of them were men, so they specially invited some models to come tonight. These models are just here to drink and have fun, but if the employees have the ability to take the models back to spend the night, the company will not care.

The next day, a meeting was held to discuss how to sell office software.

Regarding sales, Lin Baicheng and Isabella already had ideas. The meeting and discussion were just to convey their ideas and let the management know what they were thinking. After all, they are the company's management, and it is impossible for them to know nothing about this kind of thing.

Office software is used on computers, but in this era, the personal computer market has just opened, and large computers are the mainstream.

Those who buy large computers are usually official administrative departments, banks, hospitals, schools, large enterprises, etc. These institutions purchase computers for office use, so office software can be sold to these units and enterprises in a targeted manner.

Of course, the personal computer market cannot be given up. Those who can afford personal computers these days are wealthy families, so most of them also have office needs and are potential customers.

After the sales meeting ended, Lin Baicheng called Edwin Sherland and Peter Rosling into the office. Although Adern Sherland is the head of the R\u0026D department, Peter Roslin is also very capable, so of course Peter Roslin must be brought with him when it comes to software development.

"Adern, Peter."

Looking at the two people, Lin Baicheng said: "Now that the office software has been developed, the task of your software R\u0026D department in the future, in addition to upgrading the existing office software and developing more functions, is to develop new other software. "

After hearing this, Adern Sherland asked: "BOSS, do you have any ideas about the development direction of the new software?"

"It already exists, it's the database function of office software."

Lin Baicheng nodded. He had already had an idea about this and said it immediately: "I hope you can expand the database functions, conduct independent research and development, and organize, store, and manage the data through divided structures to form a data warehouse. .”

"It is a collection of large amounts of data that is stored in a computer for a long time, is organized, shareable, and unified management. It has a large storage space and can store millions, tens of millions, hundreds of millions or even more The data."

"The database does not store data arbitrarily, but has certain rules, which is the division structure I mentioned earlier to form an organization, so that query efficiency will be higher."

"As for the data sources in the database, we can collect them slowly. There is no rush. After all, the software has not been developed yet."

Lin Baicheng expressed the concept of database in his mind. He believed that the future of this software would be great, because the development of the Internet is inseparable from data.

Adern Sherland couldn't help but said: "BOSS, to store so much data, the server needs to be much larger."

Peter Roslin also said: "This kind of large server can only be purchased from IBM, and the price is not cheap."

Lin Baicheng said with a smile: "It's not like buying now, develop the software first, and don't worry about the company not having money to buy servers."

The boss Lin Baicheng said so. Of course Edn Sherland would not say anything on this point, but said: "Boss, regarding the development of software, I may need your guidance at that time."

"This time I will only give you guidance when you encounter difficulties. I will leave the usual research and development work to you."

It is certainly impossible for Lin Baicheng to stay at New Century Software Company every day. After all, he has many careers. At most, he can provide solutions when R\u0026D encounters problems, instead of immersing himself in software development like an engineer.

Although Adern Sherland and Peter Roslin were a little regretful when they heard this, they had no choice but to ask Lin Baicheng to be the boss. They could never ask the boss to do the same thing as them, or even do it better than them. Then What else does the company want them to do?