The reason why Du Qiu looked for Chen Dayou as a partner was not because he was interested in his family background or his management ability, but because he was interested in his social circle.

As we all know, all walks of life in China have their own small circles. If it weren't for people in the circle, it would be difficult to get along with them. After Chen Dayou went abroad in 1989, he gave up his computer major and went to study theoretical physics. He was not idle before in the Institute of Quantum Physics, but studied for a doctorate with an academician from Chinese scientific research. He has two halos of top universities and top scientific research institutions in China. He naturally belongs to the core members of the academic circle.

As the saying goes, literati are inferior to each other, and the academic circle is one of the most noble and particular circles. If you do not get the recognition of people in the circle, it will be difficult to recruit suitable high-end technical talents. Therefore, as a time travel party who does not even have a primary school diploma, Du Qiu needs a guide and a recommender to let him get into that circle.

Without Chen Dayou's help, Du Qiu might not have been able to recruit a fresh graduate from Beijing University or Qingcheng University even if he had been struggling in Beijing for a month, let alone high-end and high-quality talents like Qin Mu and Xiao Wu who lacked skills and experience. You should know that starting a business is like playing "The Three Kingdoms". It is not the same as when you start a business, and it is not the same as when you start a useless military general like Ji Ling and Wu Anguo, and it is a super military general like Guan Yu and Zhang Fei at the beginning...

In fact, Chen Dayou did better than Du Qiu expected. This guy looked lifeless and lonely in Yuncheng, but he was lively and lively in the capital, and had a wide range of social interactions. From arriving in the capital on March 19 and leaving the capital on March 24, he helped Du Qiu introduce more than 30 talents from all walks of life in just 5 days.

None of these more than 30 people was a mediocre person, but because the company had too little funds at that time and could not afford to support too many talents, Du Qiu carefully selected and recruited only six elites who were very suitable for the company's future development needs. Therefore, before leaving Beijing to go to the United States, although he did not give specific tasks, in fact, he had roughly predicted what program they would write - even if the prediction was wrong, he would send an email to force correction.

Du Qiu spent a morning checking the work results of the five programmers for two months. He was very satisfied with their performance, and also had a further understanding of each person's abilities and personality.

Among the five people, He Lixing has the best work. He wrote a driver for the Mach64 graphics card released by ATI in 1994, which increased the performance by about 4%. Mach64 is the world's first graphics card that supports image acceleration. With it, the computer can get rid of the performance limitations of the CPU and have the MPEG video acceleration function. In simple terms, it can finally watch VCD smoothly and without lag on master machines like 486...

Although ATI has been known for driving garbage since its establishment, in the domestic environment in 1995, it was a very amazing thing that single-handed drivers could improve their performance so much. Du Qiu was both admired and curious and asked: "He Gong, how did you get these hardware-related information?"

He Lixing, as his name is, is slow to speak but quick to act, and answers briefly: "I have a college classmate working at ATI."

"No wonder."

Next was Qin Mu and Xiao Wu. One barely completed the work, but the functions were very simple and there were many bugs that could not be put into actual use. The other only completed about one-third of the content, and even the basic prototype had not been completed. However, Du Qiu also had a high evaluation of the two because they were doing something extremely innovative and commercially valuable. It was impossible for one person to solve it within two months. It was already very outstanding to be able to do it like this.

Li Jianhua's work is not well evaluated, because the improvement and improvement of pinyin input involves not only computer science, but also knowledge in linguistics, sociology, statistics, etc. Before the support of Internet big data, he could only use water to grind it slowly.

As for Xu Yongrui, he is a software testing engineer who specializes in discovering and fixing bugs and improving user experience. He does not need to do independent and pioneering work. Therefore, in the past two months, he has only used some open source software to optimize it without making any trouble. After his modifications, the stability and ease of use have been greatly improved. He is a very self-aware expert.

At noon, Du Qiu invited six employees to have a big meal and cultivated their feelings. When he returned to the office after eating, he asked Jiang Danfeng to buy a whiteboard and two different colored water pens to come back, hang them on the wall, and start to arrange the real work content.

"I have already said before that I plan to build our own operating system based on 4.4BSD." Du Qiu first wrote down the three letters of BSD in the middle of the whiteboard, then drew a circle on the left and right sides, and said: "The operating system has two development directions, one is to build the server market, and the other is to build the PC market."

He put down the black fountain pen, picked up the red fountain pen, drew a line in the circle with two letters written on PC, and said: "BSD started too late in the PC market and was far inferior to Windows in terms of ease of use. It lacked the support of software and hardware manufacturers and could not compete with Microsoft for the time being, so we listed it as a long-term strategic goal and prepared for a protracted war."

In 1990, Microsoft released Windows 3.0, which sold 10 million units in just two years. Since then, it has established its dominant position in the field of PC operating systems. Moreover, with August approaching, various news about Windows 95 is overwhelming, and even the official version has not been released yet. The industry media that have obtained the preview version have already spoken out and called it a revolutionary product, with a very impressive momentum.

Whether an operating system can be successful is in addition to its own quality, it also requires the support of a prosperous ecological environment. After more than ten years of accumulation and development, Microsoft has supported giants such as Intel, ATI, and HP in terms of hardware. In terms of software, in addition to its own Visual-Studio and Office, millions of companies around the world have developed application software and electronic games for it. BSD is almost blank in this regard, there is nothing, and it is impossible to compete with it at all. Therefore, Xiao Wu raised his hand and said, "Mr. Du, I think it's better to give up the PC market and work wholeheartedly on the server."

"No, this field cannot be given up, because the market is very large, and you can survive by eating a small piece." Du Qiu painted most of the circles with the letters of PC in red, and then wrote the word "government" in a small white area, saying: "Windows are too expensive, and the copyright requirements are strict. Ordinary users can use pirated copies, but government departments cannot. If we can tailor the operating system for it, it should be very popular."

"Mr. Du, BSD doesn't even have a graphical user interface. Those officials from government departments are fools and can't use them at all!"

"So I said I wanted to fight a protracted war." Du Qiu smiled and knocked on the whiteboard and said, "The official is stupid, but there are also benefits, that is, the requirements are low and easy to be perfunctory. You only need two things to pass it off. First, the graphical user interface, and second, the office software."

He pointed at Qin Mu with a pen and said, "Qin Mu, I'll solve the graphical user interface. If you go to work on office software, Is it possible to create text and report processing software within one year?"

Qin Mu thought carefully for a while and asked, "I need manpower."

"several?"

"Five...six or seven."

"Yes, the company is rich now, and you will be given 8 places to recruit people, but only fresh graduates are allowed to recruit, with a monthly salary of 2,000. If you are very outstanding talents, you can double it."

Qin Mu didn't expect that he was just a fresh graduate and was slightly stunned. It was the end of April now, and almost all fresh graduates had signed a job contract, which was difficult to recruit, but he didn't complain, just nodded and said, "If there are 8 people helping, it should be done in a year, and it is guaranteed not worse than WPS."

"WPS is not our competitor, Microsoft's word is." Du Qiu said this, suddenly remembered something and asked: "Have the Pangu office software of Kingsoft been released?"

"It was released a few days ago and is currently advertising." Zhou Yuan is the most familiar with this aspect and said with a smile: "The advertising is a bit inexplicable, and I guess the effect is not very good."

Of course it's not good. It is said that more than half a month after Pangu's office software was released, someone called to ask what it was...

Pangu office software is Kingsoft's Waterloo, and since then it has lost its dominant position in the domestic word processing software market, making Word pick up a big advantage...

After the sales are bleak, there will inevitably be major layoffs, which is a good opportunity to poach people. However, Du Qiu doesn't want to recruit old programmers whose thinking has been solidified. After thinking for a while, he said, "Qin Mu, I'll give you two more places to recruit. Pay more attention to the situation of Kingsoft. If there are suitable talents, dig them up."

"OK."
Chapter completed!