If the PC software market is compared to a chess game, the operating system is equivalent to "cool", and the office software is equivalent to "car", which is the most effective tool for charging and is indispensable. Although Qin Mu's work does not involve the operating system itself, it is extremely important. Therefore, Du Qiu not only gave him 10 recruitment places, but also arranged for Li Jianhua and Xu Yongrui to assist.

After arranging the development plan for the PC market, Du Qiu began to talk about the server market and said: "Just Xiao Wu predicted, with the development of the Internet, more and more small and medium-sized enterprises will inevitably build their own websites. There must be servers to build websites, and servers must have three things: operating system, web server software and database software."

He drew a red line in the circle with the three words "Server", painted one side red, wrote down the name of Linux, and said: "The commercial operating systems of large companies such as IBM, SUN, Microsoft have no competition with us. The only thing we need to compete with is Linux..."

Xiao Wu raised his hand and reminded: "There is also a fellow senior brother FreeBSD."

"FreeBSD is not a competitor, but an ally, because the BSD license is much more relaxed than the GPL license used by Linux, so we can directly use the code from them." Du Qiu smiled and made an analogy, saying: "We are now equivalent to Liu Bei during the Battle of Chibi. They are Sun Quan. Although their family is not rich, they can still compete with Linux if they join forces."

When Xiao Wu thought about it, he smiled with a pursed lips and signaled him to continue.

"There is a scientific research institution in the United States called NCSA, the full name is the National Supercomputer Application Center. In 1993, it was developed by everyone. This is familiar to everyone and later evolved into Netscape. In fact, in addition to Masic, they also developed a web server software called NCSA-HTTPd, which is free and open source software and is very popular on the Internet. When I left the United States, it was time for a research and development team to release a web server software running on Linux based on this, called Apache."

Du Qiu wrote down Apache's name on the whiteboard and said: "If I had a correct expectation, this would be a killer application software that could greatly promote the development and growth of Linux."

This is a fact. Linux was just a toy in the hands of hackers before 1.0. In 1993, there were only about 20,000 users. After the release of 1.0 in 1994, it began to develop towards commercial applications. However, due to the lack of killer application software, it was still calm. Until Apache appeared in April 1995. Apache swept the world in just one year and became the web server software with the highest market share, promoting the explosive growth of Linux users, from 20,000 to 500,000, which established its position as the leader of open source operating systems.

In order to emphasize, Du Qiu specially used a fountain pen to draw several circles on Apache, warning: "Everyone must remember that the business rules in the Internet era are winner-takes all, and for open source operating systems, there is only one way to win, that is, to form a scale as soon as possible, gather the most programmers and manufacturers, and form a benign ecosystem. Therefore, if we want to make a difference, we must have our own web server software and database software as soon as possible, so that we can have the capital to compete with Linux."

He Lixing, who has not spoken much, said: "Since this Apache is open source, we can port it to BSD."

"We don't need to do this by ourselves. Someone will soon transplant it. You can just use it directly, so the key is not Apache, but database software." Du Qiu pointed to Xiao Wu like he asked Qin Mu just now, and asked: "How many people do you need to do this database in half a year?"

"If Mr. Du participates in the development, I only need three people. If I don't participate, I will need at least 10 people, and I will not need inexperienced fresh graduates."

"I will participate in the whole process and give you 8 recruitment quotas, only recruit fresh graduates, and reserve talents for the future. The salary standards are the same as those of Qin Mu."

After two months of email communication, Xiao Wu knew very well that Du Qiu was better than himself in the database. He was very excited when he heard this. He picked up the coffee cup, made a toast through the monitor, and said, "Mr. Du, I wish us a happy cooperation."

Du Qiu responded to her greeting gesture, then used a fountain pen to circle the three letters of BSD, and assigned the last thing: "He Gong, the work of integrating 4.4BSD and FreeBSD will be handed over to you."

When recruiting, Chen Dayou asked Du Qiu what his friends were. Du Qiu said that they had first-class talents but no first-class opportunities, so they were wasted. This is not a false statement. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the domestic IT industry was almost poor and lax. From education to business, from system to culture, everything was not formed. Qin Mu and others were not lacking in talent or diligence. If they were raised in the sea, they would become whales, but if they stayed in a small pond, they could only be a crucian carp.

However, this evaluation is not suitable for He Lixing, because after he finished his master's degree in the United States, he worked there for two years. He returned to China only in 1994 due to family reasons. His skills and vision are not bad. He is the highest among the five. He nodded and said, "I know two friends who have participated in FreeBSD development and can be recruited."

"Can."

"One of them is American, and the other is an international student studying in Canada." He Lixing grabbed his hair in a bit crampedly and said, "The salary requirements for Americans may be relatively high, and international students will have to wait until August to return to China."

Du Qiu was unwilling to destroy the company's salary structure and said, "You can contact me first. If that American friend is willing to come to China, he will give him the same salary as you. If he doesn't want to come, it's all right. The same is true for international students. It's not a problem to come back in August. Our project will take a long time."

"I'll send an email to ask."

After Du Qiu divided everyone's work, he handed the pen to Jiang Danfeng and said, "I'll give you a week to prepare. I'll go to Yuncheng before May 4 to report that Qin Mu and Xiao Wu have recruitment tasks, which can be postponed by one week. Are there any problems?"

When he signed the contract, he explained that his future work location would be in Yuncheng. Among the few people, except for Li Jianhua and children, the rest were not married. They had already arranged the matter of leaving Beijing in the past two months, so they all said that there was no problem.

Jiang Danfeng was probably born with computer insulated. She was the first person in this time and space to come into contact with the four open source articles, but she still couldn't understand the business model. Seeing that Du Qiu finished speaking, she took a bottle of pure water to him and asked: "Mr. Du, can you make money by advertising when you make a browser? How can you make money by working as a server?"

"The product is free, but it does not mean that the service is free." Du Qiu raised the plastic bottle in his hand and explained: "The water in nature is free. Some people have the strength to drill wells and carry water to drink, some people have money to pay the water fee to buy tap water to drink, and some people are extravagant to go to the supermarket to buy bottled mineral water to drink. We can be a pure water merchant, providing high-end services to enterprises, such as customized products, technical support and employee training."

Zhou Yuan also took a bottle of pure water from the cardboard box and smiled and complimented: "Mr. Du's metaphor is a good one. I talked to those reporters before, but I couldn't explain the company's profit model clearly. I can finally explain it clearly in the future."

“Can service make a lot of money?”

Xu Yongrui seemed to be very interested in Jiang Danfeng. He pretended to look at the potted plants on the balcony, his eyes turned on her face, and then asked loudly: "Xiao Wu, you used to work in the bank. Do you know how much money the bank has to pay to IBM or Oracle every year to buy technical support?"

Xiao Wu, who was typing on the screen, did not say how much it was, but just revealed an order of magnitude: "Astronomical figures are at least in millions of dollars, and the specific amount depends on the business needs."

This number was shocking enough. Jiang Danfeng finally understood how to make money, but he still didn't understand why he needed to open source. She looked at the letters on the whiteboard and asked again: "Since that Apache can be ported from Linux to BSD, after we have done the database, will it be ported to Linux by others?"

The charm of beauty is different. Even Qin Mu, who has a girlfriend, has shown diligence and explained: "The transplant takes time, and there will be various bugs or performance and function losses due to compatibility issues. We are originally free. Those companies do not need to put the original version and do not use it, so they have to use the transplanted second-hand goods."

Jiang Danfeng finally understood, so he took a few bottles of pure water and gave thanks one by one with a smile. Du Qiu, who was watching coldly, admired her ability to dance.

On the afternoon of April 26, Du Qiu took a plane to leave the capital and returned to Yuncheng, which had been away for more than two months. When he opened the door, looked at the familiar furniture and smelled the familiar smell of food, it was like a long journey in the desert and finally saw tourists from the oasis, and almost knelt down and shouted long live.

"Uncle! You are finally back. If you don't come back, I will forget you!"

Du Qiu dropped his backpack, rushed forward two steps, picked up Lin Jinyan who was running over the TV, held it high above his head, and said, "Jinyan, has my uncle become handsome?"

"Uncle, you are so handsome!"

Du Chunhua walked out of the kitchen in an apron, looked at him with a smile, and said, "He's much more handsome."
Chapter completed!