Chapter 168: [Joe helps the master]

"We strive to spend about 5.6 billion US dollars in the second half of 2007 and set up three data centers in China's Sioux City, the capital, and Lincheng, and just use the 1 billion US dollars of financing funds brought back this time. The budget is just right. . "Luo Sheng began to make detailed decisions.
Based on the current Internet infrastructure and user scale in China, the establishment of these three data centers is sufficient to meet the current commercial scale. It is not necessary to build too many data centers. The construction and operating costs are too scary.
Once built, it means that several hundred million yuan will be burned steadily every year.
It's been two hours since the meeting lasted, but everyone was very excited, because the blueprint drawn by Luo Sheng was too magnificent.
Luo Sheng went on to say: "Nine large-scale data centers are being constructed overseas, one in Northern Virginia, one in Seattle, two in the California Bay Area, one in Oregon, one in Osaka, one in Dublin, one in Frankfurt, and one in Sydney. "
After hearing what he said, Erin immediately said: "Operating costs are higher overseas, even if 9 data centers are built, plus 3 domestic ... Isn't the 5.6 billion US dollars raised in the IPO financing for the establishment of Is the data center up? "
Luo Sheng nodded and smiled: "Overseas data center operating costs are high, but future revenue will also be high, after all, developed countries. The money raised this time is used to build our cloud computing service projects, otherwise this money will only be Lying on the company's accounts as a cash reserve, the company's current operating profit growth rate has exceeded the growth of operating expenses, and financial revenue and expenditure are very healthy. "
Bowen Zhang said: "In the field of cloud computing services, our competitors are the Amazons."
Wen Sheng Luo Sheng shook his head: "Of course, Amazon is a big competitor, but it won't be long, or even half a year, and more players will soon enter this field. Once the technology giants such as Microsoft and Google realize the cloud, The potential of calculation will definitely speed up the follow-up. Maybe these giants have begun to make secret preparations, and it must be difficult to enter the overseas market, especially the entry qualification of the North American market. And develop a response strategy in advance. "
Everyone could not help but nodded, and Amazon launched a low-profile elastic computing cloud service in March of this year.
However, the current Amazon company is really a younger brother in the eyes of Bluestar Technology Group. Its core business is e-commerce. It can be seen from the market value that it is really a younger brother.
Amazon's current market value is maintained at about $ 15 billion, while Bluestar Technology Group's current market value has been sitting around, sprinting towards $ 80 billion.
In terms of free cash flow, Blue Star Technology is now also completely Amazon.
Even if other companies are already preparing in secret, Luo Sheng is confident that in the future, he will win more than 70% of the cloud computing service market share. There is not much doorway in it, which is a very simple problem of courage.
Luo Sheng dare not to hesitate to blow down five to six billion US dollars this year to next year, which is equivalent to Google ’s total annual revenue last year.
Other companies, such as Google and even Microsoft, are definitely not as crazy as Luo Sheng.
Because cloud computing services are still a new and unfamiliar field at present, they have already had a concept prototype as early as the 1980s and 1990s. After so many years, there has not been much improvement. It is impossible for such a crazy investment. .
The scale of 5 billion to 6 billion US dollars is still in the age of 2006. If you put such a large amount of astronomical figures in a big group company, how dare you break into a new area that is still unclear?
In the event of a loss, if a professional manager is in charge of this company, the financial report will be rolled out tomorrow.
They do not have the advanced vision pattern of Luo Sheng's prophets.
By the time the reaction came, Blue Star Technology had already taken a ride in the field of cloud computing services, and Luo Sheng liked this feeling of throwing people N streets as a tide of the times.
This life depends on the waves!
This highly confidential internal meeting is almost coming to an end. Finally, Luo Sheng looked at Zhang Bowen and said, "Lao Zhang, it's up to you to build the data center. You talk to the people at IBM."
Zhang Bowen nodded: "I understand."
This matter is extremely important for Bluestar Technology Group. It is a strategic vision of the times and spanning more than ten years. It is also the most important task of the group this year. Luo Sheng naturally attaches great importance.
However, he handed it over to Zhang Bowen. On the one hand, he was assured. On the other hand, it was Lao Zhang's ability that was beyond doubt. Moreover, Luo Sheng had to take care of the matters of the Cote d'Azur.
This matter is more important.
This year is 2006, a year of changing the world. Lansi Semiconductor and the Cote d'Azur laboratory are blooming. The core technologies are constantly breaking through under the leadership of Luo Sheng.
The first real smartphone will be available this year, and it must be released before Apple's iPhone.
The company that has been immersed in the Cote d'Azur for several years, if it does not sing, it will be shocking.
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Zhang Bowen began to implement Luo Sheng's new task for Bluestar Technology, and the group company entered the field of cloud computing services without hesitation.
This is a very large and long-term project, more than any previous project of Bluestar Technology Group.
In fact, Zhang Bowen was also very stressed. In the following days, he began to make active preparations, and was planning to travel to North America to meet with IBM executives to discuss business cooperation issues before the end of the month.
In the other business segments of the Blue Star Technology Group, the heads of the major subsidiaries also perform their duties. More than 10,000 employees of this huge technology group perform their duties. The major business segments are also steadily advancing, and users continue increase.
The company completed the spin-off and reorganization at the end of last year. The first head of each subsidiary has been in office for almost a quarter. So far, Luo Sheng is satisfied with their performance, and no major problems have occurred.
In the next few days, Luo Sheng himself will undoubtedly focus on the [Azure] project plan of the Cote d'Azur company. Preparations for this autumn conference will also be on schedule.
I chose to release it in September, no matter what, because whether it is domestic or foreign, the sales season will be after September. For example, domestic companies just have a small holiday in October, and other companies will basically choose to sell new products at this time.
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Two days later, when Luo Sheng was focusing on the [Azure] plan, he didn't know that a big coffee from the tech industry had crossed the ocean from North America to Hua Guo for the first time, and he came directly to him.
This is Jobs, the founder of Apple.
That morning, Qiao Bangzhu, who had arrived on a special plane, got off the plane in Shencheng. He left the terminal and looked around and sighed: "I never thought that there would be a mysterious oriental country one day. I am here to ask someone to ensure a new The product was born. "
This will start from last year. Another thing happened in the North American technology circle, which is related to Apple.
Last year, Apple entered the mobile phone industry for the first time, and cooperated with Motorola to launch an iTunes phone-Rockr.
Qiao Bangzhu this phone and Motorola's Razr released in 2004 also belong to the 4LTR product line.
The main model is V3.
In 2004, Razr was arguably one of the best-selling mobile phones in the world.
At that time, Apple, the iPod, had just ruled the digital music industry, and MusicSpace had not yet been launched.
Apple saw the potential in Razr. Coincidentally, the head of Motorola's airdrop at the time was an old friend of Joe's gang.
After being fooled by the old man, Qiao helped the master get into the "thief ship" of his old friend for many years.
The cooperation between Apple and Motorola is of course natural.
That's how Rockr was born. This is Apple's first mobile phone.
However, this phone was laughed at by the media after it went on sale. Sure enough, the Rockr, which was launched last year, has been so cool this year. It really can't die anymore.
In fact, when Rockr was not yet on the market, Joe's gang owner knew that this phone would be cool, so the iPhone was also being developed in secret.
It's just that Joe helped the main circle, but the iPhone encountered a big trouble by accident.
Because many key patented technologies are stuck in the neck, for example, the most critical multi-touch patent has been applied for registration on March 22 last year.
This investigation found that ~ EbookFREE.me ~ is the mysterious oriental country from the other side of the Pacific that has just joined the WTO for five years.
Many technologies can't be beaten by Apple, but the terrible thing is that patent barriers can't get around you.
The Cote d'Azur has not only mastered multi-touch patents, but also dozens of related patents that are urgently needed by the iPhone.
To a certain extent, without the patent authorization of the Cote d'Azur company, the iPhone basically has to die.
Unless you find another way.
But the most perfect technology and industrial design patents are already in the hands of the Cote d'Azur. If you abandon these, Joe firmly believes that the iPhone will definitely face the same defeat as Rockr.
It is for this reason that there is now a scene in which we have to come to the Cote d'Azur.
Without him, Joe intends to obtain a patent license for this trip.
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