Chapter 574 (1/2)
Bill Gates felt that today's meeting with Simon was a complete mistake.
If this young man had not been born, he would have been the richest man in the Federation. Unfortunately, his $10.5 billion fortune on this year's Forbes list, compared with the $120 billion of young people in front of him, can only be looked up to.
The feeling when they get along with each other makes gates think of the contact with jobs in the early development of Microsoft.
At that time, jobs was already a new business star with a fortune of over 100 million, and Microsoft was only the office software supplier of apple. Because of the differences between apple and Microsoft, he and jobs had quarreled more than once.
Or, to be more precise, he was completely reprimanded by jobs at that time.
Now jobs has no light, and the rise of Microsoft is unstoppable.
However, gates found himself head unconsciously appeared a more disgusting guy than jobs.
This young man won't yell at jobs like he used to. He won't even show any emotion in the face of his anger. For gates, this is a more serious contempt.
It seems that the other side is completely standing on another level, looking down at all living beings.
In fact, Bill Gates is not willing to admit it.
The meeting broke up in a bad mood.
About Linux and ie, Simon's conditions are basically that the other party has already made a plan to pay attention to. This meeting did not bring him any room to turn around.
When Bill Gates left, he was already worried.
IE will run on Windows platform after all. It's not difficult to grasp it.
Simon doesn't care what his classmates think. His current attitude is to look on coldly. The specific game is operated by the senior executives of many of his enterprises.
It's actually like raising poisonous insects.
No matter which side wins, the westero system will have a large share of interests in it.
What's more, Simon can probably imagine what kind of tricks gates will play, but if he is in a hurry, igritte's team may really launch a free Linux desktop operating system.
The rise of windows is ahead of time because of the rise of the Internet wave, but there is still a certain gap from the complete monopoly.
Now the free Linux desktop operating system is not without the opportunity to redefine the market structure of the operating system. In the past, Android came from behind when Apple's IOS was launched. The key problem is the software ecology of the operating system. At the present stage, Microsoft also has no absolute advantage. Igritte just has the corresponding strength to coordinate various software manufacturers to develop software for Linux.
Of course, this is definitely a strategy of losing both sides.
The igritte team won't do it unless it has to.
Hit Microsoft hard, Simon, the second largest shareholder will also suffer serious losses.
Returning to Los Angeles on Monday, the heaviest news was that Canada's sigram Group officially announced its acquisition of paramount communications.
Prior to this, the two companies have been secretly negotiating for more than three months.
In fact, it's not too secret.
In recent months, rumors about sigram group's upcoming acquisition of paramount communications have been constantly in the press. Paramount communications's share price has increased by more than 25% compared with the end of May, and its recent market value has reached $5.9 billion.
Now that the news is public, the two sides have basically reached an agreement.
Sigram will buy paramount communications for $66 A share, with a total value of about $8 billion, all in cash. At the same time, sigram group will also bear $1.2 billion debt of paramount communications, with a total transaction amount of $9.2 billion.
On the day of the announcement, Paramount's share price rose again by 11%.
Over the next period of time, as long as there are no other bidders, the deal will be formally concluded after the paramount board votes and the federal authorities approve it.
In the view of many people, the possibility of bidders is already very low.
Compared with the initial negotiation, sigma group's offer of $66 per share is equivalent to a 70% premium. The most important point is that the transaction is completely paid in cash, such as QVC of Barry Diller or Viacom of Sam Redstone. Even if it intends to acquire paramount, it can't offer such a price at all.
With the announcement of the news, the focus of the federal media discussion is again on whether the media industry should be deregulated as soon as possible.
Because of the ban that public television networks are not allowed to merge with large content producers, in recent years, the three old federal television networks, which are strong enough to integrate with major Hollywood film companies, have been unable to participate in the acquisition of Hollywood studios. As a result, Colombia and MGM have successively fallen into the hands of foreign investors, and Universal Pictures has almost been acquired by Panasonic.
Now, another old Hollywood studio, paramount communications, will also become a subsidiary of overseas capital.The New York Times believes that similar acquisitions have threatened the cultural industry in the United States, and the federal government should prohibit sigram from acquiring paramount.
Such an appeal is hardly effective.
Since Sony is able to complete the acquisition of Columbia Pictures and Australian capital has taken MGM, according to the existing law, the federal government has no reason to prevent sigram group from merging paramount communications.
Unless media control is immediately deregulated and three powerful public television network groups are allowed to join the acquisition.
The media giants' lobbying for lifting the industry control ban has been going on, which has become a consensus at the top of the federal level. However, it is not a matter of time to abolish the original bill.
This time, at least, sigram's acquisition of paramount communications is inevitable.
Domay point manor.
It's September 29, Wednesday.
Simon was invited by Robert rem, President of Paramount Pictures, to attend the reception at Beverly Hills' home tonight and left early at more than nine o'clock in the evening.
When she got home, Janet had no rest and was discussing something with girl a in a living room of the villa.
Simon sat down next to Janet and asked the little guy. Janet said that the child was asleep and that girl b was looking after her, so she looked curiously at the document in the woman's hand.
Janet handed the folder directly to Simon and said, ”what about the list you've just sorted out?”
Simon took over the folder, on which was a thick stack of resume materials. He flipped through it at will. They were all 18 to 22-year-old college girls, from North America, Australia and Europe, and they were also the top students from famous universities all over the world.
The most convenient ABCD is gradually leaving her post, and Janet recently began to look for a new batch of maid candidates.
Simon originally thought that there was no need to look for girls who were too smart. However, judging from the ”accidents” of the girls brought out by the housekeeper Alice, the smarter girls are more reliable. The smarter people often know what to do and what not to do.
Looking over, Simon said, ”I think it's better to choose younger ones to start from scratch. They're a little older.”
Janet moved her body, nestled up to Simon and looked at the resume on the file: ”I know it's better to cultivate from childhood, but how do you plan to find a little girl? You can't buy it directly, can you? It's easy to get into trouble. ”
Simon raised his arm around Janet to make her more comfortable. He looked at the paper on his knee with one hand and thought about it. He said, ”it's easy to choose from Latin America or Eastern Europe.”