Michael Dell considered this for more than a month, and patience is really okay! !
However, Henry and others are not in a hurry. You can think about it as long as you like. As long as you don't develop your own servers, Dell's servers are very impressive... In the past life, the brand share of Dell servers ranked first in the world, and it can be compared with IBM. It's not easy to compete against each other! Henry hoped that through the binding of interests, the big ship of Dell would be tied together, and Noah's Ark would develop more smoothly!
In the past life, Cisco also worked as a server, and it was pretty good. Now, if the two companies join forces, it will be incredible that they have a strong background, and I am afraid they will lose a lot of IBM!
During this period, Henry often went to the Isearch company to assist them in research and development. Under Henry's very clear instructions, a web crawler program was quickly made according to the requirements, but the "crawling" speed was too slow, and it took N long to crawl the web page. Henry expressed his dissatisfaction! Order them to continue to modify.
Even web crawlers can't do it, so what do you do for searching!
You must know that the real difficulty of search engines is to analyze and process tens of millions of billions of information in the network, so much information is extremely demanding on algorithms! When users search for a word, you have to find the most accurate one from countless messy information, and the speed is even faster!
The algorithm does not work, so it is sad. One is that it takes a long time, and the other is that the information returned may not be accurate!
It's not a big deal now, and the amount of information in the future will be hundreds of billions. The search technology is so impressive that it is reflected in the algorithm!
While Henry was still tossing the group of Isearch, Dell finally couldn't help but call Henry!
"Henry, I have considered it clearly!"
"Oh, how did you think about it?" Henry asked nervously. He didn't want to push Dell into the server side.
"Henry, I cannot agree to your terms!"
what? ! disagree!
Henry touched his forehead and felt a headache. Is Dell going to go with Noah's Ark?
"Michael, don't rush to make a decision, or you can think about it..." Henry persuaded.
"Dell hardware diversification development, server is indispensable. However, if you want to give up 30% of the shares, I would rather let Dell do research and development from scratch!" Michael Dell said categorically.
Henry was silent for a moment, and shook his head secretly in his heart. Michael Dell took the shares very seriously. It is really difficult for Dell to give up 30% of the shares!
Forget it, Noah's Ark is not afraid of any corporate challenges!
Noah's Ark will be stepped under Noah's Ark like IBM and Dell. !
Henry suddenly felt a sense of war in his heart!
At this moment, he no longer forced Dell to join the Noah's Ark camp. Anyone who sells assembled computers can make a good server. Henry couldn't believe it. Noah's Ark, the most professional server leader, would be no better than Dell! !
Henry hung up the phone, and an emergency meeting was held at Noah's Ark that same day. At the meeting, Henry informed Bob Gallagher, Gilli Hurt and John Chambers of Dell's refusal to exchange shares. !
"Dell has refused to exchange shares and decided to build its own server! Here, I don't have much to say, I only have one requirement for Noah's Ark! Always innovate and ride the dust!! I don't want any company. Can surpass Noah's Ark in the server industry!!"
"Chairman, please rest assured!! I, Bob, promise that the boat is there, and if Noah's Ark lags behind, Bob will be the first to take the blame and resign!!" Bob Gallacher made a military order with a firm expression on his face. .
There is no eternal sun never setting empire. How can this kind of thing be settled? Bob Gallach is a very good professional manager who manages Noah's Ark very well. Henry doesn't want to lose such a good talent. So he waved his hand and said, "You don't have to take the blame and resign. As long as you work hard, I won't blame you!"
"Yes!!!" Bob Gallagher nodded a little moved!
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Not long after, Dell held a press conference to announce that it would enter the server industry!
"Dell will set up a server department and vigorously develop the company's diversified hardware route! This time, we have prepared 50 million US dollars, and we must make the server business bigger and stronger, and make it the world's top server!!" Michael Dell At the press conference, he was energetic and announced loudly.
As soon as the news came out, Dell's stock price rose by $1.7 on the same day.
Dell is not just talking about fun, its actions are very big! Within a week, Dell bought three server vendors, at an amazing speed. Henry only learned of the situation when he finally negotiated the acquisition. Obviously, Michael Dell had planned for a long time. He had contacted three server vendors and had some negotiations secretly!
After the negotiation was concluded, Dell pretended to formally propose the acquisition. As a result, the two parties signed the agreement before the negotiation took place a few minutes.
Henry is almost in the dark by Michael Delmon!
Henry has nothing to say about Michael Dell's unkind approach. Anyway, Dell's stock will be sold sooner or later, whatever he can do!
After Henry returned to the company, Helen told him that AOL was preparing to go public. Henry asked carefully. It turned out that AOL was burning a lot this year. In addition to making websites, they also provide users with Internet access services, that is, dial-up services. AOL is really useless, at first they just wanted to provide users with Internet access services, and then promote the AOL website. But I did not expect that with the acceleration of the National Science Foundation Network and the increase in network coverage, the number of users connecting to the Internet has increased sharply, so Internet access services are actually very "rich"! AOL does not lay down its own network, but it can rent other people's network channels and a large number of local telephone lines to provide network access services for local users!
The AOL website has been losing money, but the dial-up service has made AOL a lot of money, and the financial statements are very good-looking. And with the increase in the volume of dial-up Internet services, the traffic of AOL websites has also increased! With so many favorable conditions, and AOL is not yet listed, Sequoia Capital should scold the mother: you know how to burn money, and when will you earn it back!
It's just that good-looking financial statements are good-looking, but AOL is under great financial pressure. Should I burn money when opening a website? Do you want to burn money for renting network channels and a lot of telephone lines? In order to enable the company to develop faster, financing is necessary! The listing is the best way!
With the help of Sequoia Capital, AOL's request for listing on NASDAQ was quickly passed.
Steve Case also started roadshows in major cities in the United States.
Henry had to frown again after hearing the news.
This time, AOL took advantage of the loopholes, and it was going to be listed. After the listing, wouldn't it be more difficult to deal with? !