Chapter 3633: Real Cooperation

Ellison's public service advertisement declaration stunned everyone. .

One billion and one billion yuan, plus a fraction of 1 lira, such a huge amount of money was actually used to publish public service advertisements, which was really beyond everyone's expectations. All the presidents were stunned, this is too exaggerated! Let alone 1 billion US dollars, even if it was 100 million US dollars for public service advertisements, these companies would not be willing to spend it. But Ellison is so generous, is he sick!

"Okay, the auction is over today, thank you all for your honor. Of course, here, I personally express my sincere admiration for Mr. Ellison's public welfare behavior. Here, I announce that I will take out 1% of my personal income this year and invest it in public welfare. As Ellison said, there is only one earth, we must treat our mother ball well, which is also the only home for us humans!" Lin Feng said loudly.

Hiss! Many netizens squatting in front of the screen took a deep breath. How much money can Lin Feng make a year? Although there is no accurate estimate from the outside world, it is conservatively estimated that Lin Feng and other companies can bring hundreds of billions of dollars of income to Lin Feng in a year. This one percent is hundreds of millions of dollars. Although it is not as much as Ellison's 1 billion dollars this time, Ellison used the name of the "Oracle" company, while Lin Feng invested personally, and there is a gap between the two.

In an instant, Lin Feng's image became more glorious and more awe-inspiring.

Hum! Many presidents snorted. Lin Feng is sensationalizing again and fooling the world here again. Taking this opportunity, he is promoting his own glorious image and trying to please the public. However, although many presidents cursed in their hearts, they also knew that unless they also took out corresponding funds for charity, today's auction would completely become a platform for Lin Feng and Ellison to establish a glorious image and self-declaration. And they will all become the foils around Lin Feng and Ellison.

They were very unhappy, but helpless. They don't have so much money to make public service advertisements. Businessmen pursue profits. They come to pursue profits, not to be kind and make public service advertisements. Of course, it is not that I don't do public service advertisements, but that is when I make enough money, not like today, when I am so angry that I still do public service.

The auction ended just like that! But the subsequent turmoil did not end.

Ellison invested 1 billion and 1 million US dollars and 1 lira, leading Microsoft and Intel by 1 lira, and won the advertising position of the "Second World" for the next year. This scene made everyone talk about it. Winning with an advantage of 1 lira, this is probably the auction with the smallest advantage among all the dark auctions. Generally speaking, dark auctions with too small an advantage may have insider information. But this auction did not have insider information. Not only was it in full view of the public, but it was also broadcast live around the world. More than 1 billion people around the world witnessed this auction tonight. In this case, how could there be insider information? Especially this dark auction was also a sudden decision made on a whim, so it was even more impossible to cheat.

This can only mean that Ellison was too smart and had calculated the trump cards of Microsoft and Intel, so he could win with an advantage of 1 lira! Naturally, Ellison was praised by most media. After all, the media always likes to beat the downed dog. The ridicule of Microsoft and Intel was almost overwhelming.

"K! K!" Ballmer was furious. He was furious this time. He could accept losing, but he couldn't accept losing at the price of 1 lira. Paul Otellini, the president of Intel, couldn't accept it. This time, the two companies worked together, but they were defeated by Ellison by 1 lira. How could this be accepted?

"They must have colluded, they must have!" Otellini said in a low voice.

"Collusion? How could they collude? This was secretly filmed in public. How could there be collusion?" Ballmer smiled bitterly. He also suspected collusion at first,

but he watched the video carefully and it couldn't be a conspiracy.

"If it wasn't a conspiracy, how could it be 1 lira? Could Ellison have such an accurate estimate and won us by 1 lira!" Otellini's face was ferocious.

Losing to Ellison by 1 lira was a complete shame. He couldn't accept it.

"Paul, you can't say that without evidence. You have to know that Ellison is not a pushover. If he catches us, we will be in trouble." Ballmer shook his head helplessly. Although he was very unwilling, he couldn't say anything without evidence.

"Humph!" Otellini spat helplessly, "Steve, I think our two companies are in a very difficult situation now. Lin Feng's 'Pangu' has occupied an increasing share of the operating system market with the advantage of the 'Second World' game. Although it still can't catch up with 'Microsoft's' operating system market share, it may be surpassed by Lin Feng in the long run. Especially now that 'Oracle' is also fully supporting 'Pangu'. Although Oracle's database software currently supports both systems, judging from the trend, I'm afraid that 'Oracle' will only support 'Pangu' as an operating system in the future. At that time, the situation will not be good!"

Ballmer nodded. This is also what 'Microsoft' is extremely afraid of at present. It is also the reason why 'Microsoft' is fully developing the next generation of operating systems for the first time when 'STA' was just launched. In Ballmer's opinion, STA might become the shortest-lived operating system in Microsoft's history. It will end up like nMe, which was once launched on the market.

"What do you want to do?" Ballmer asked.

"Currently, Lin Feng controls the technology of combining computer hardware and software into one. Unless we merge, it will be difficult to beat him in this field." Paul Otellini glanced at Ballmer.

"Otellini, if your company is willing to be acquired by us, we will be happy to do so." Ballmer expressed his attitude of "Microsoft" as soon as he opened his mouth. Merger is not impossible, but it must be led by Microsoft. This is the dignity of ‘Microsoft’ and the pride of ‘Microsoft’.

Otellini just rolled his eyes. 'Microsoft' has the pride of 'Microsoft', then 'Intel' doesn't have the pride of 'Intel'!

"Steve, if our hardware and software cannot be perfectly integrated into one, then our advantages in our respective fields will be equaled by Lin Feng. Coupled with Lin Feng's dominance in the gaming field, we may be Become the one eliminated by the market. Even if it is not eliminated, it will become the weak one," Otellini said with a solemn expression.

He was by no means an alarmist, but told the truth.

The computer market is undergoing rapid changes. In terms of hardware, Intel technology is far ahead, but this does not mean that it will continue to lead. Especially now, the rapid development of "CPU" has been dragged down by the performance of other hardware on the computer. Most of today's CPUs can already meet daily applications. Increasing the speed actually doesn't make much sense. Most of today's computer users' daily applications include watching movies, chatting online, playing games, and occasionally doing word processing. In this case, the current CPU is already sufficient for the application. Users simply don't need to spend more money on the CPU.

What really needs to be improved now is the speed of computer hard drives and the shortcomings in meeting the increasingly huge gaming surname, that is, the demand for graphics cards. In these two items, Lin Feng had the advantage. As time goes by, Lin Feng's advantages will become greater and greater. By then, no matter how great the CPU advantage of Intel is, it will not be able to solve the embarrassing situation of high CPU performance but poor overall machine performance.

At the same time, on the software. At present, the market of 'Microsoft' system is indeed larger, but in terms of ease of use, 'Pangu' is simpler and clearer. Although it lacks many functions, those functions are ones that most users may not use in their lifetime. ‘Microsoft’ relies on the habits of users and the support of most software companies to stay on top. This is also the reason why many companies want to challenge Microsoft but ultimately fail. But Lin Feng is different. He has the ‘Second World’, a sure-fire weapon. ‘Second World’ games perform significantly better under ‘Pangu’ than under ‘Microsoft’ system, allowing players to instinctively choose to support ‘Pangu’.

‘Microsoft’ still has the upper hand now, but what about the future? When players gradually get used to ‘Pangu’, what happens when more software companies start to support ‘Pangu’? what to do?

"Paul, what do you want?" Ballmer said silently.

"It's very simple. Both of us should sit together calmly and discuss how to cooperate. This is what we must do now, unless we want to watch Lin Feng eventually surpass us and use us as a stepping stone." Otellini said.

Ballmer was silent for a long time and finally nodded.

"Does this matter represent the attitude of the board of directors of Intel?" Ballmer asked.

Otellini nodded.

"Before coming here this time, our board of directors has passed a resolution to cooperate with you. Now we are waiting for your reply." Otellini said in a deep voice, "Compared to your slowness, we are more aware of Lin Feng's danger. . If we want to defeat this terrible opponent, we must cooperate, not the alliance!”

"I will convene a board meeting to discuss this matter as soon as possible. Once the results are available, I will give you a reply as soon as possible!" Ballmer said solemnly.

Otellini frowned. Ballmer's attitude is not enough to satisfy him, but he also knows that as the company gets bigger and bigger, the response will always be slower. Just like Intel, there were many opportunities to eradicate Lin Feng in the past, but the price was too high. As a result, when he hesitated, Lin Feng finally acquired Intel and completed its monopoly on the graphics card market technology.

Now, 'Microsoft' isn't enough of a wake-up call. However, Otellini believes that Microsoft will wake up. After all, their founder is Bill Gates. Although he is no longer involved in the management of Microsoft, he is by no means a mortal. (To be continued.)