On August 7, Zhou Buqi went to the airport in person.

Wang Jian and Wang Xing’s study tour to the United States is back and has achieved fruitful results!

At the end of last month, 37 top students studying in the United States returned to China and joined Ziweixing. Their technical ability has reached the T7 level, and the two with the highest management level are M5.

This time I returned to China and brought back 6 high-level talents. In addition, there are seven or eight people in the United States who have already agreed to return to China, and a dozen more are under consideration.

This wave of trips to the United States brought back nearly 50 technical talents to Ziweixing.

Half of them are fresh graduates, and the other half... are engaged in technical research and development-related work in Silicon Valley and have accumulated a lot of experience.

From this group of people, Wang Jianhui selected about 40 people, plus the team he brought from Microsoft Research Institute, to form his core team for the cloud computing business.

The remaining people will be added to the Ziweixing Engineering Academy. Among them, Zhao Xiaoping, the technical director poached from Yahoo, was appointed as the vice president of the Engineering Academy, level m5.

Talent is only one aspect. Wang Jian went to the United States with a clear purpose this time, for cloud computing technology!

In the first stage, Ziwei Cloud's business is infrastructure as a service. To implement this set of services, there are three main aspects -

First, software, develop a cloud computing operating system.

Second, for hardware, we develop modular servers that are easy to disassemble and replace.

Third, build a building and build a cloud computing data center.

The biggest difficulty is to build a building, which requires tens of billions of dollars to be poured into it.

The first two technical issues are not simple either.

Cloud computing operating system is a new thing... The model is different from that of computer operating systems and mobile operating systems. The core is to build a virtual machine.

Starting from scratch is definitely not possible.

It can only be developed based on Linux system.

The Linux system is an open source project, which is equivalent to a rough house in the field of operating systems.

Whoever can decorate this rough house in the most stable, safe, smooth and beautiful way will win in this field.

The iOS system and the Android system are both refined decoration based on the Linux system.

In recent years, some computer operating systems based on Linux have also been launched in China, claiming to be independently developed... In fact, they are simple modifications and simple decoration. The rough houses are laid on the floor and furnished with furniture to realize basic life functions. They are simple and simple.

And rough.

Ziweixing has great ambitions in cloud computing, and of course it cannot be satisfied with simple decoration.

Simple decoration is easy, just lay the floor and put up the furniture. But how can such a house be attractive? Of course, transforming the rough house into a luxurious villa can make it more attractive and better meet the living needs and enjoyment of the residents.

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This is too difficult.

For this reason, Wang Jian went to the United States this time to reach a cooperation with Palm Company and ACCESS, spending US$16 million to buy the source code of their Palmos system, which contains more than 50 million lines.

The reason why the cooperation was successfully reached was because Palm Company could not survive.

Palm is a company that makes handheld computers. It was very successful in the early years. Relying on the synchronization function between handheld computers and handheld computers, it surpassed Apple's product Newton as soon as it was launched.

However, things have not been easy in the past few years.

In 2005, in order to alleviate operational pressure, Palm sold the copyright of its most proud Palmos system to Japan's ACCESS. Based on this, ACCESS continued research and development and planned to transform into tablet and mobile phone operating systems.

The Palmos system is very famous in the industry and once beat Apple.

You know, Apple is the god in the field of operating systems. From the PC era to the mobile era, Apple is leading the trend. Windows and Android are both imitated by Apple.

The price of $16 million is definitely expensive.

But the price is not important, the key is that you can buy it. Many times you can’t buy it even if you want to spend money. It happens that Palm Company is not doing well and ACCESS lacks funds, so the opportunity is rare. Palm Company got 6 million US dollars out of 16 million US dollars.

ACCESS received US$10 million.

With Palmos, a luxury villa, and Android, an open-source, well-decorated apartment, as references, two-phase arguments were made, and omissions were checked to fill in the gaps. Wang Jian led the team to develop his own cloud computing operating system, and he felt confident.

Domestic independent research and development is basically like this. It is almost impossible to write code from scratch.

If it is a simple project like "Interest Circle", just find the code of a similar project and modify it. If it is a high-end project such as a cloud computing operating system, there is no ready-made code, and you have to spend money to buy similar code in the United States.

project, and then take it back and practice it in seclusion.

It's like building a car.

Shell design, wheels, seats, etc., just master the principles and imitate them. There is no need to start from scratch. Only core components such as bearings and engines cannot be easily imitated, so they require top-notch engineers to develop them.

The development of cloud computing operating systems is a complete ecosystem, which also requires distribution, firewalls, storage and reading systems, databases, task scheduling, graphical interfaces, etc., which is not easy.

In comparison, self-developed servers are very simple.

When building a cloud computing data center, it is designed according to standards. A building is a data center module with 20,000 servers in it.

Of course, these 20,000 servers cannot be purchased off-the-shelf servers.

Need to customize it yourself.

Hardware, systems, and software must be matched to achieve the best compatibility.

If you want the best experience on the cloud computing platform, you need the server to comply with the standards of your own operating system. Just like Apple's mobile phone procurement hardware, it needs to be adapted one by one and specially customized. The Android system is because there are too many mobile phone manufacturers and spare parts

It's too messy, and the software and hardware are not compatible, so it affects performance.

There is a more important point, the server will be damaged during use.

This requires that the server be modularized during design. The server is composed of abcdef and other modules. If any module is broken, just replace it.

This requires a special server inspection system to locate the damaged location and then replace it in time.

This technology is relatively mature in China.

Ziweixing only needs to cooperate with companies such as Inspur, Sugon, Lenovo, Founder, and Great Wall for research and development. If their technical level cannot meet Ziweixing's requirements, they can also cooperate with IBM for development.

This technique is not difficult.

It is equivalent to working together to design the blueprints for the Ziwei Nebula server.

Just make the drawings and then find someone else to produce them.

Overall, the success of the first step of the Ziwei Nebula plan strategy lies mainly in two difficulties - the operating system and building the building.

Zhou Buqi can solve the problem of building a building. No matter how much money it costs, he will invest.

There is only one left.

Develop cloud computing operating systems.

That afternoon, the good news came.

Zhou Buqi saw it when he was checking his email. It was an email from NetEase's boss Ding. The content was concise and concise, with only two words: "Congratulations!"

Zhou Buqi immediately realized that Zhou Feng had made the choice.

I immediately called Boss Ding and confirmed this guess.

Zhou Feng officially submitted his resignation to NetEase.

He wants to join Ziweixing!

Boss Ding smiled bitterly and said: "Zhou Buqi, Zhou Buqi, I have never seen you poaching people like this. You are not taking the usual path!"

"What's going on?"

"The lady's route is so fun!"

Zhou Buqi laughed.

Speaking of this, Boss Ding was also very angry and funny, "How did you come up with this bad idea? Can you teach me? You even wrote a script and sent it to my wife, and said you wanted to make a movie... You are really

Personal talent.”

Zhou Buqi said seriously: "I heard about their love story and felt very moved."

"Yes, once this script comes out, which girl won't be moved?"

"What a coincidence."

Boss Ding was not interested in making jokes with him. One of his subordinates was about to leave. He was also very distressed. He sighed, "I am confident that I can keep Zhou Feng. I...Oh, I didn't expect that you wouldn't be able to handle Zhou Feng."

Feng, but he got his wife, this wave of pillow wind made me dizzy."

Zhou Buqi was amused by him, "Okay, Old Ding, I want to do something big. It's not like you don't know. With Dr. Wang Jian, and now Zhou Feng... Crouching Dragon and Phoenix are in place, Zi Weiyun is going to

Lifted off."

"What position did you give him?"

"m6... is equivalent to the level of vice president of the group, deputy chief engineer of Ziweiyun, and project leader of Ziweiyun operating system."

"The chief engineer is Dr. Wang Jian?"

"Yes." Zhou Buqi paused and added, "But the doctor is a technical talent and doesn't know much about business and interpersonal relationships. In the future, we will still have to rely on Zhou Feng for external business cooperation and business operations."

In other words, during the research and development stage, Dr. Wang Jian was the first person in charge of Ziweiyun. After the research and development was successful, Zhou Feng became the president of Ziweiyun.

Boss Ding was stunned for a moment and said, "Slaying the mill and killing the donkey?"
To be continued...