Chapter 525 (2/2)

”This is a set of open source operating system kernel released by a Finnish programmer named Linus tovatz last year. After it was released through the world wide web platform, many programmers around the world are volunteering to carry out follow-up development for this system. We think this system is very suitable to replace the UNIX system currently used in the company's data center, so we intend to set up a team to be responsible for this project. ”

Carol Bartz just gave a general introduction. Simon actually saw the detailed planning of the project in advance on the plane to San Francisco.

At present, the data center of igritte company is still using UNIX system, and the licensing fee of UNIX system is very expensive. Moreover, the openness of this system is still not up to the degree that igritte technical team can modify the lowest level according to their own needs.

Completely open source and free Linux, no doubt to solve this problem.

In my memory, because of the free and open source properties, the share of Linux system in the server market reached more than 90%.

Of course, it is not easy to develop an operating system.

It has been nearly 20 years since Microsoft was founded in 1975. There are still various problems in the latest Windows 3.1 system.

Simon appreciates that Carol Bartz discovered the potential value of this operating system shortly after the birth of Linux, but it will be a long-term project if it is really put into development.

If you want to develop a brand new operating system, it's just a technical team, no one or two hundred people can't do it, and you must be the top software engineer.

At the same time, it is also unrealistic to expect an operating system to be completed in a year or two.

Finally, when the project is completed, it is still not easy to replace the existing UNIX system.

Igrit's cloud computing technology is now developed based on UNIX system.

However, no matter how difficult it is, Simon knows that it is absolutely right to replace UNIX with a free and open source Linux system.

Now that we are on the right path, no matter how much investment we need in the process, it is worth it.

After more than half an hour's discussion, although Jeff Bezos had some complaints about the plan that might occupy a lot of funds and resources of igritte, he didn't object to it, so he quickly finalized it.

Time is already noon unconsciously.

After lunch, they returned to the company and discussed with Steve case, who is still in New York, about the cooperation between igritte and AOL.

At the beginning, AOL moved its headquarters to San Francisco, because the business scale of the follow-up company on the east coast was much larger than that on the west coast, Steve Case spent much more time in the east coast headquarters in New York than that on the west coast, and the operation team gradually tilted to the East. Now the West Coast headquarters is more focused on technology research and development.

ADSL technology is to finalize the scheme and complete the test on the west coast.

At the end of igritt's trip, Simon took time to visit dincobail, a company run by c-girl Claire Gaines.

With the rise of the Internet, the demand for ICAM digital cameras has been increasing.

In 1992, the shipment volume of ICAM unknowingly increased to about 50000 units per month, and the annual shipment volume reached 610000 units, and the sales volume was close to US $300 million.For a start-up electronic products company, it is a pioneering undertaking when a large number of well-established manufacturers with strong technology enter the market one after another.

Because of the rapid rise of the Internet concept, Wall Street's recent valuation of ICAM has reached as high as $1 billion.

After another round of financing, westero's stake in tincobail has risen to 70%, and the two founders' stake has shrunk from 25% to 15%.

However, according to the recent valuation of $1 billion, only the 15% shares are worth $150 million.

As a result, Claire Geithner has become another billionaire out of the westero system. Moreover, compared with the executives of the westero system, the identity of C girl is more imaginative: Simon westero's maid.

More and more people in the outside world know the information of the four ”ABCD” girls around Simon westero, full of all kinds of ambiguous curiosity.

The third generation icam-30 will still be released on Easter.

At the same time, tincobail has quietly started to develop digital music players, and the trademarks have already been registered, including iPlayer.

The player will be mainly based on the MP3 audio format and micro hard disk storage technology provided by igrit.

It is also a product that appears almost ten years in advance. However, due to the accumulation of related technologies for many years, there are no big obstacles in product development.

As long as the next USB is completed and promoted, and AOL's ADSL network is completed, the digital music player can create a complete set of online music ecosystem.

After a day's work, Simon stayed in Woodside's mountain villa for one night with his female assistant, and returned to Los Angeles the next day.

This year's Golden Globe awards are held on Thursday, January 28.

The location is still the Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills.

Denise entertainment has a lot of nominations in film and TV, and it's still the hot one tonight.

The company also started to prepare the celebration party after the Golden Globe ceremony one week in advance.

Whether or not she can win the prize, there are more than 30 nominations in film and TV, which is enough for danilisi to celebrate.

Simon was not in the mood to sit in the banquet hall of the Hilton Hotel for a few hours. In the afternoon, he still worked until six o'clock and returned to domay point manor to have dinner with Janet. They arrived at the activity center on the second floor of Denise studios in advance.

Tonight's celebration party is still here.

Many company executives and some stars who did not participate in the award ceremony arrived ahead of time. After the award ceremony, it was even more lively here.

The live broadcast of the Golden Globe Awards was broadcast on the projection screen in the hall of the activity center. Simon, Amy Pascal and others said hello and discussed the plan of ”evoking the universe” with Denny Morris.

”In 1980, Mr. and Mrs. Warren co published a biography with a writer named” Mr. and Mrs. Warren, the goblins ”. At that time, they also signed an exclusive license agreement with each other, and the Warren couple could no longer license the relevant experience to others. This is the most troublesome point. We contacted the writer and they offered us $5 million. It was a joke. However, the news has spread recently, and now several other Hollywood film companies are interested in the right to adapt the book. ”