Mass-connected collaboration software is the main reason why Kurian made a business report to Boss Zhou today.

He was previously Oracle's vice president, in charge of product and research and development. As a software giant, this type of office software is certainly within Oracle's business scope.

However, Oracle did not take off.

One of the directions that Kurian is very optimistic about is the online collaboration tool of Volkswagen Connection. He has established 2 R&D teams for this purpose and has acquired 4 start-up companies. He wanted to make a breakthrough in this field, but he failed.

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In this market, there is a very powerful stumbling block - webex.

Webex is a video conferencing product that can accommodate hundreds of people for online meetings at the same time. It was later acquired by the technology giant Cisco. With money, resources and technology, it firmly occupied this market.

So much so that Kurian tried to break into this market several times when he was at Oracle, but failed.

After joining Ziweixing, he still misses it!

He wants to make this happen!

In fact, Weishu also has the function of online video conferencing. It can also have dozens or hundreds of people online at the same time. It is even more powerful than Webex. It can store the content of the video conference online in the cloud to facilitate users to watch it repeatedly after the meeting.

However, Weishu’s mass connectivity is not strong.

Weishu is a purely enterprise-level b-end product. It is a small circle, and there is no product logic for cross-circle connections. For example, Ziweixing’s employees should communicate in the circle of Ziweixing and Ziweixing’s partners through Weishu.

When connecting, you cannot connect to Baidu, Alibaba and other companies.

This kind of enterprise office product involves the transmission of many internal company documents and business secrets, and the product concept does not encourage cross-circle connections.

However, Weishu employees sometimes need to communicate online with Baidu or Alibaba employees. Of course, this can be achieved, but under normal circumstances both parties are relatively opposed to this, and there must be taboos.

Mass-connected office products are for the masses and do not exist in every small circle. Even if there is a small circle, you can break through the circle without restrictions.

This requires that when designing this product, as many company secrets as possible should be avoided.

Just like webex, the function is very simple, that is, online meetings and multi-person videos. Users cannot have more work contacts through this product like Weishu. Such product logic can allow

Webex has public attributes and has the possibility to target more users.

Kurian therefore said: "Weishu's product functions are very powerful, but the product design is very complicated. This means that the market space is relatively small, and most companies and institutions cannot use so many functions. If you want to have more

To reach more users and cover more industry fields, there must be product designs with relatively simple functionality for popular connections, such as webex.”

Zhou Buqi felt like a mirror in his heart.

Although they didn't get along for a long time, he got to know the working style of Indians through multiple channels. They are strong in ability, but their shortcomings are also obvious. They love to show off, love to be in the limelight, and love to grab credit.

In fact, it is the externalization of inner inferiority, asking for what is lacking.

Indians are an ethnic minority. If they don't show off, compete or compete, how can they become masters step by step in a foreign country?

This is actually correct.

Just like black people and Mexicans, power is earned through hard work. In China, Japan and South Korea... Korea is actually not bad. Koreans are very fierce. In 1992, a fierce gun battle broke out in Los Angeles. Koreans used guns on the street.

Charge and make the black group stupid.

Chinese and Japanese expatriates are very miserable. They are too self-sufficient. They think that as long as they are good enough and decent enough, they will be respected and have the rights they deserve.

This is related to national memory. South Korea was ruled by a dark military government. The Koreans couldn't stand it anymore, so they used sticks and homemade petrol bombs to fight the military's bullets with their own flesh and blood. Then South Korea's system changed.

It has surpassed North Korea in all fields. Japan cannot do that. Everything in Japan is a gift from the United States. The Japanese people have become accustomed to kneeling and waiting for rewards. They can only endure when they are bullied.

Kurian's idea is actually simple, he just wants to be in the limelight and win credit.

No matter how Weishu is revised, it is a product developed and designed by a domestic team, and is simply handed over to Kurian to operate the overseas market.

Of course he was not willing to do this.

I just want to launch an office collaboration software on my own and show my abilities!

Zhou Buqi is happy to see this phenomenon. He knows about the webex product, but he is very skeptical, "webex? I seem to have seen some data. The market share of this product seems to be more than 75%, right? Except for a few Silicon Valley giants

, almost all schools, research institutions and companies in the United States are using this product.”

Kurian smiled and said: "Weishu's market is unknown and needs to be verified. The video conferencing market is different. Webex has proven the demand for this market. Now, more and more companies need to hold remote meetings

, more and more schools are opening online courses, and there are many training institutions, as well as cross-regional collaboration between research institutions, all of which require online meetings."

"I know there is potential in this direction, but..." Zhou Buqi looked at him deeply, "Do you really think we can build this market? I remember that Google also made a similar product, but the market didn't respond at all.

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Kurian is full of confidence, "Google can't do it, Microsoft can't do it, Adobe, IBM can't do it, and my old club Oracle can't do it either. But I think MSI can do it."

"Oh?" Zhou Buqi was very interested, "How do you judge?"

Kurian smiled and said: "Because of you."

"Me?" Zhou Buqi was amused by him and waved his hands repeatedly, "I can still control the situation at home, but when I came to the United States, I am unfamiliar with the place and I am powerless in many things."

Kurian said seriously: "No, I think you can really do it!"

Zhou Buqi looked suspicious.

It doesn't feel like this person is deliberately flattering, he really thinks so.

Kurian explained: "That's right, webex was started in 1996, and Eric was the core person in charge of project development. He led webex to grow from a small company of 10 people to a large company of 800 people, with annual revenue

From 0 to 800 million US dollars. Later, Cisco spent 3.2 billion US dollars to acquire webex, and Eric was promoted to Cisco’s vice president of products.”

"Eric..."

Zhou Buqi vaguely heard what Kurian meant.

This Eric is the key figure in the success of webex!

Dig him up?

This is not very realistic!

Kurian was previously the vice president of product at Oracle, and Eric was the vice president of product at Cisco. From a level perspective, the two are equal. Is Eric poached to help Kurian? Can anyone agree?

A somewhat mysterious smile appeared on Kurian's face, "Eric is an English name, and his Chinese name is Yuan Zheng."

Zhou Buqi was stunned, "Chinese?"

"right."

"That's it..."

This time, Zhou Buqi was confident and motivated.

The Chinese are the base camp of Ziweixing!

Regardless of whether Yuan Zheng changes his nationality or not, his Chinese nature will not change, and he should join Ziweixing as a matter of course. In the past year or so, a very unfriendly trend towards Chinese people has emerged in Silicon Valley.

When many technology companies promote senior executives, they place great restrictions on Chinese people and have extremely high requirements. The main reason is that the domestic technology industry has developed. Domestic companies have come to Silicon Valley and poached too many Chinese executives back to China, resulting in

The talent that Silicon Valley technology companies have worked so hard to cultivate has become a wedding dress for others, which has aroused collective vigilance.

When many world-class companies divide their world sectors, they will have the Asia-Pacific region. Under the Asia-Pacific region, there will be China, Japan and South Korea, Southeast Asia, India, etc.

In the past, the president of Greater China was often also the president of the Asia-Pacific region, and the Chinese dominated the Asia-Pacific market. But after the subprime mortgage crisis broke out, the situation began to change. The president of Greater China was still Chinese, and the president of the Asia-Pacific region became more

Many places have become Indian.

A more typical example is Hulu. People from the parent company Comcast even said a lot of politically incorrect things, and the Chinese senior management team resigned en masse.

It is conceivable that under this trend, Yuan Zheng, as the vice president of products of Cisco, must also be thinking of a way out. Joining Ziweixing International is of course the best choice.

Ziweixing International is the base camp for Chinese elites working in Silicon Valley.

Kurian said: "Webex was started by Eric Yuan, and he was very successful. But there is no perfect product in this world. If there is one person in the world who knows the shortcomings of webex best, it must be him.

If we can invite him to come over and lead the development of a similar product to compete with Webex, and use our strengths and avoid weaknesses, we are very likely to succeed! Google can't do it, Microsoft can't do it, Adobe can't do it, and Oracle can't do it, but I believe he can do it!"

"Um."

Zhou Buqi nodded, basically accepting this idea.

Next, the two exchanged some opinions on this idea.

If Ziwei Cloud wants to develop, in the short term, it will rely on cloud data centers around the world with enough servers and storage space. In the longer term, it still needs to provide better and higher-quality services.

"Cloud computing software" is the direction of SaaS. Whether it is micro-notes, impression ledger, impression cloud disk, Weishu and this video conferencing product being prepared, they are all SaaS products and services.

Relying on the backend cloud computing platform to provide support for these cloud products.

If these products are developed, it will show that Ziweiyun has strong infrastructure capabilities and will attract more cloud products to Ziweiyun.

Microsoft Cloud's later efforts have been able to narrow the gap with Amazon Cloud step by step. The fundamental reason is that Microsoft is a software giant and has the richest software products and services on Microsoft Cloud.
Chapter completed!