The open source software seminar held by O'Reilly Media was March 26. The location was in San Jose, known as the capital of Silicon Valley. There was no direct flight between Beijing and San Jose, so you had to go to San Francisco first and then drive over. There was a 16-hour time difference between Beijing and San Francisco. Du Qiu and his group set off at 9 pm on March 24. After nearly 12 hours of flight, they arrived on March 24, and it was only 5 pm.

Many of Chen Dayou's classmates at that time received scholarships for further studies in the United States. Some returned to China after graduation, but some stayed in the United States. One of them was a female classmate named Wei Zhiqin who worked in a computer information service company in San Jose. She not only helped arrange her residence, but also drove over to pick her up.

Wei Zhiqin is a short and fat girl, a bit like Wang Huihui, but her makeup is very neutral, with ultra-short hair that is not much longer than a board inch, and wearing a pair of red glasses. After meeting, she punched Chen Dayou like a man and sighed: "Oh, handsome Chen, I haven't seen you for only five or six years. Why are you so fat? I missed you unrequitedly back then!"

Chen Dayou seemed to have a good relationship with her, and opened her arms and said, "Come on, I'll let you throw yourself into your arms and quench your desire that has been suppressed for many years."

"Get out! I'm reading countless people in the United States, and now I have even children. I'm not interested in getting fat pigs like you." Wei Zhiqin and Chen Dayou teased each other for a few words, greeted Du Qiu and Jiang Danfeng and asked carelessly: "I heard you brought a nuclear bomb to the United States?"

This woman is so bold and unrestrained...

If it were put after 911, it might be immediately arrested by the airport security guard...

Wei Zhiqin drove a wide and long dark green convertible to pick up the plane. When she saw the car, Du Qiu and Chen Dayou both said the name of a movie, but Du Qiu said the Chinese name "The End of Flowers", while Chen Dayou said the English name "Thelma-&-Louise".

"The End of the Road" is directed by Ridley Scott, starring Gina Davis and Susan Sarandon, and the soundtrack of Hans Jimo. It tells the story of two women driving a convertible on the road and the desert. After killing the pervert, they escaped from the police's pursuit. It is a classic movie with excellent plot, pictures and music. The 1966 dark green convertible thunderbird in the movie is very impressive.

"You can also see this movie in China?"

"You can't watch the cinema, but the video tape can." Chen Dayou touched the car with his finger and said, "Qinzi, although you were not beautiful before, you had long hair and spoke in a harmonious and feminine way. Why did you become like this when you came to the United States? Don't tell me that you are a feminist now? If that's the case, I will stay away from it."

After getting off the plane, Jiang Danfeng became a little restrained, and at this moment he looked even more confused. Seeing this, Du Qiu explained concisely: "The End of the Road" is a very feminist film. This car is the same as the heroine in the movie, and it has symbolic significance."

Jiang Danfeng said oh, and his expression relaxed a lot. Wei Zhiqin glanced at Du Qiu with some praise, and opened the trunk and said, "Do you think I want this kind of man to be a man or a woman? The gender ratio in the computer industry is seriously out of balance, and Americans do not pay attention to implicitness. If I don't pretend to be a feminist, I will often be harassed in all kinds of ways. Only by dressing up like this, will those stupid nerds not get flirted with me."

"If you don't live well in the United States, you might as well go back to China to develop."

"Let's talk about it later."

The 1966 Thunderbird is a four-seater convertible sports car. Chen Dayou took the co-pilot seat without permission, allowing Du Qiu and Jiang Danfeng to sit in the back. The temperature in California in March was moderate and dry and rainy. He was speeding along the highway under the sunset, which had a romantic and wild taste. Jiang Danfeng quickly fell in love with this feeling and looked left and right with great enthusiasm. Du Qiu asked about the serious matter: "Sister Zhiqin, have you registered my website domain names for me?"

"Register, iView, iCode, iMail, iTalk, iSeek, these five are right?"

"Yes, thank you Sister Zhiqin."

"It's nothing, it's a waste of time." Wei Zhiqin looked up at the rearview mirror and asked, "What are you planning to do when registering these five websites?"

"iView is a browser, iCode is a code management, and the others are placed first and then talk about them later."

Since Du Qiu changed JavaScript to iScript, he became obsessive-compulsive disorder and was preparing to change all products to names starting with the letter "i". The browser originally wanted to plagiarize IE directly, but after checking, he found that Microsoft had registered, so he changed the browser to iView to take the meaning of network scenery. As for the other three, they are all future plans. At present, they just occupy the domain name first to prevent them from being stolen.

Wei Zhiqin did not arrange the three of them in a hotel, but took them to a friend's house. The friend's family went to Europe for a trip. The house was empty and there was a large space. There was three floors, and there was a lawn in front and a swimming pool behind. It was the style of affluent American middle class family common in Hollywood movies.

"Don't sleep in the master bedroom, don't make Chinese food, don't rummage around, the rest is casual, it's more comfortable than staying in a hotel." Wei Zhiqin took the three of them to visit the house, pointed to a few cardboard boxes in the living room and said, "This is a new computer I bought as you ask. You can install it yourself. The account number and password of the Internet and the phone number for ordering takeaway are posted in the refrigerator. Qiqi is alone at home, and I'm not very relieved. I'll go back first, have dinner together tomorrow and have a good gathering."

"I will not thank you for your kindness. I will visit your house tomorrow."

"Bring more gifts, the more expensive the better. I am a poor man now and hungry."

Wei Zhiqin was very straightforward and left as soon as he left. Du Qiu asked Jiang Danfeng to pack his luggage and order takeaway. Chen Dayou assembled two computers together, then logged into the network, downloaded the browser's installation program and source code from the company server just built in China, and conducted the last test before the public offering.

The flight for more than ten hours was very exhausting. Jiang Danfeng ordered two boxes of pizza. After eating, the three of them quickly rested and had nothing to say. The next morning, they got up and rented a car and went to Shanjing City for a walk. While they were going to the birthplace of Silicon Valley culture, they chose the office location of the American branch.

In 1955, William Shockley, the father of transistors and Nobel Prize winner, founded Shockley Laboratory in Mountain View. Two years later, eight of his generals defected and established Fairchild Semiconductor Company. Fairchild Semiconductor split again in the 1960s and established companies or investment companies that are important in the IT industry such as Intel, AMD, and Sequoia Capital. In 2014, a rioter made a relationship diagram and found that there were 92 listed companies in Silicon Valley that had a connection with Fairchild, including Apple, Google, Oracle, Yahoo, and eBay, with a total market value of up to 2.1 trillion US dollars.

Mountain View is a satellite city in San Jose. It is very small, with a population of only 31.7 square kilometers and a population of only 50,000 or 60,000. However, it brings together famous companies such as Intuit, SGI, Symantec and Netscape. Although they are just wandering around outside, Du Qiu and Chen Dayou are very satisfied and feel that the trip is worth it. Only Jiang Danfeng, who has only a little knowledge of the IT industry, was puzzled secretly, not knowing what they were doing in a small town with neither scenery nor historical sites.

"Du Qiu, why don't we go to the inside of Netscape Company today?"

"I'd better not have it anymore. We are here to play the club. It's easy to have misunderstandings when we go to peep so blatantly. We'll go to visit us after the seminar tomorrow." Du Qiu took a few photos in front of the office building where Netscape's headquarters is located and suggested: "Let's go to the headquarters of Intuit."

"Intuit? That's a personal financial software, it has nothing to do with the Internet. What do they do?"

"Aren't it rumored that Microsoft is going to buy them for $2 billion? Maybe it will disappear in a few days." Du Qiu fiddled with the camera and said in an inadvertent tone: "2 billion US dollars can catch up with a super-large state-owned enterprise in China. Take a few photos as a souvenir."

In the 1980s and 1990s, Microsoft was strong and powerful, wielding the dragon-slaying sword of the operating system, galloping around and destroying countless opponents. The only one seemingly weak competitor could not handle it, that is Intuit.

Intuit is a personal finance and financial software. In the late 1980s, it had only 50 employees and annual sales of less than 20 million US dollars. Microsoft had 4,000 employees and annual sales of up to 800 million US dollars. At that time, Microsoft used office to defeat lotus 1-2-3 and entered the financial software field. As a result, it was defeated by Intuit. It was Microsoft's usual behavior that could not be defeated. So at the end of 1994, it announced that it would spend $2 billion to acquire Intuit, which has a market value of only $1 billion. However, this decision attracted the attention of the US Department of Justice. They believed that this was a monopoly behavior. Therefore, the acquisition plan had been tossed for several months, but it could not be completed for a long time. It is still arguing.

This incident was a hot topic in the IT industry from the end of 1994 to the beginning of 1995. Even some domestic technology media reported it. Chen Dayou was not unfamiliar with it. Hearing the words, "Then go and have a look."

Du Qiu went to the door of Netscape to take a photo. It was a real pilgrimage, because Netscape is equivalent to the King of Chu in the Internet industry. It is majestic and arrogant, but it soon died in a very tragic form. He went to the door of Intuit to take a photo with the purpose of taking a photo at Wanguo Securities in Pujiang last month, but it was just because he could make money from it. Under pressure from the US Department of Justice, Microsoft will announce in April that it will give up the acquisition of Intuit, which will not only cancel the acquisition, but will also lose tens of millions of dollars. After the news came out, Intuit's stock price will immediately soar.

The six employees will have to spend 60,000 yuan in salary every month. They will spend money on renting houses, water, electricity, equipment, etc., while the company only has 1.5 million yuan in funds. If they do not open up their wealth, they will soon be finished...
Chapter completed!