Chapter 61 Victory
On the seventh day, Jerry was leisurely playing the song and came out of his latest Pontiac Firebird sports car. He was in a very good mood this morning and had a friendly match with his wife. Although he was a little late, who cares?
Now he is really happy when he encounters happy events, and the horse's hooves are fast. There is nothing else. After half of the schedule, the opponent is not catching up. Victory is already within reach. How can you not be proud and happy?
As soon as he stepped into the company, a clerk ran over in a hurry.
"Hi, Annie, have you burned my office again? Hahaha!" Jerry smiled loudly at Annie who was running over.
"Hey, boss, you hope you will still be in a good mood after seeing this news." Annie handed him the printing paper in her hand.
Jerry looked up and felt the five thunders thunders slamming in an instant, and he wailed: "This is unscientific!"
I saw that what was written on the paper was a fax issued by Laco PET Printing Equipment Company informing him that the ERP custom software of Northern Dynasties Computer Technology Co., Ltd. was completed and asked him to supervise the acceptance process.
"Bastard, what's going on!" Jerry ganged the fax into a ball and tore it to pieces.
He ran to the program development project team and called out Raymond.
"Hurry up, clean up, let's go to Laco Company. Damn it, is this Chinese trick?"
The two got into the car and ran away. In the afternoon, they arrived at the factory department of Laco Company. Not only Johnson, Zhou Shuo and others were present, but many business owners related to circuit printing also appeared here.
"Hey, Mr. Jerry, you're here, we're all waiting for you." Mr. Johnson greeted him from a distance.
Jerry didn't care about politeness at all, and asked when he met: "Damn it, what the hell is this? The Northern Dynasties company cannot complete development so quickly."
Zhou Shuo also came over at this time, and he was not only angry at Jerry's swear words, but said with a smile: "Haha, I'm very sorry, Mr. Jerry, we have indeed completed the customized development of the software."
"This..." Jerry turned his mind desperately, and couldn't think of how he did it. He said incoherently: "It must be fake, fake!"
Zhou Shuo turned his head, shrugged at Mr. Johnson, and said with an innocent expression: "It seems that Mr. Jerry has been greatly stimulated, so let's conduct software acceptance first."
The two of them were about to walk away, when Jerry suddenly came up and grabbed Zhou Shuo's clothes and asked pitifully: "This is impossible. How did you do it? It's not a Chinese spell, right?"
Zhou Shuo pursed his lips and said helplessly: "Okay, since Mr. Jerry wants to know so much, I will tell you reluctantly..."
Before he finished speaking, everyone around him pricked his ears. This matter was indeed a bit amazing. Those who were traveling around had to get things done. Should people who work hard to live?
I heard Zhou Shuo say, "Sir, have you heard of the Internet?"
"Internet?" Jerry was stunned and said, "Of course I have heard of it. Not only did I hear it, I also often use it."
Zhou Shuo laughed and said, "Do you know that in China, Internet access has been achieved this year?"
Jerry shook his head confused. He is not a professional Internet technology journalist. How could he know such a rare thing?
"Actually..." Zhou Shuo patted his shoulder and said with a smile: "I have hundreds of programmers in China. With just one email, they can work 24 hours a day. And their monthly salary is not even as much as your hourly salary..."
Jerry stood there stupidly, breaking his head, and never expected that the subtle changes in a strange country tens of thousands of kilometers away were the real reason for his failure.
He looked at Zhou Shuo's smile and felt that this Chinese man was like a shark. With just a slight smell of blood, he could find the other side of the ocean and cooked himself a big meal. Isn't his smile full of bloodthirst and madness?
As for doubting his software technology level, don’t joke. Even Microsoft hasn’t found any problems. What can he do!
Jerry collapsed on the ground with a loss of thought. What awaited him was ten years of struggle, and he was lost all his life...
Amid the anticipation of many business owners, Laco PET Printing Equipment Company's customized ERP system has begun trial operation.
Enterprise operation information is fully collected, inventory pressure is reduced by 30%, production control is reflected to other departments in real time, and everyone in the entire system can obtain corresponding information based on their own authority...
When an ERP system is running, its advantages are placed in front of business owners so intuitively. This feeling of mastering everything easily conquered them.
The tide of informatization and networking has just shown its power, both in Jerry and in business owners.
"Mr. Zhou, I am the boss of Rachel Electronic Paste Company. I hope you can develop an ERP system for my company. This is my business card."
"I am a supplier of plastic films, and I also hope to use this ERP system..."
"I am from a circuit design company. Is there any design suitable for this ERP system in our company?"
Zhou Shuo was busy collecting business cards with one hand, and while he was also dealing with these people's inquiries. For a moment, he wanted to have eight mouths and twenty-four hands immediately.
Looking at that side, Jerry is no longer visible. This is often the case in the software market. Once you have mastered the first-mover advantage, the latecomers often don’t even have to do second place.
For Microsoft, as soon as Windows 95 was released, no one could shake its position as the leader in the market for decades. Why? To put it bluntly, it is not a problem of data format. If Linux can use Windows system software or even read data from Windows software documents, it will not be the only one.
In the software market, it is often only a zero-sum game. In terms of ERP systems, because as long as a wedge is inserted into an industry, later manufacturers must use the same system in order to meet the needs of the supply chain to achieve the purpose of information sharing. In the end, whoever enters first will be able to master the blockbuster market. The market standard is established by these systems with the largest number of users.
In the software industry, accumulation is often very important. Once the accumulation of resources, talent accumulation and source code accumulation, once this advantage is established, it is difficult to catch up with it by the late-release method. Among them, the accumulation of source code is most suitable for the enterprise's customized software industry to form advantages. Compared with the technical content and talent needs of commodity software, the entry door frame of enterprise software is relatively low, but the profit is also relatively meager because of the dedicated sales target.
At this time, a software service provider with rich source code accumulation can rely on this resource advantage to improve the utilization rate of source code, shorten the development cycle, and thus reduce costs and increase profits.
This is also the reason why Zhou Shuo dared to launch a customization business of 100,000 US dollars and completed software development earlier than Burkebu. After all, compared with Raymond and others' preparation time in less than a month, Zhou Shuo's Northern Dynasties has the advantages of developing complete sets of ERP software and rich source code accumulation.
Under such conditions, victory is the only possibility.
After returning from Laco PET Printing Equipment Company, Zhou Shuo put a lot of business cards into Pang Zhou's hands and plunged into the office.
Soon, the Northern Dynasties Computer Company entered a period of rapid expansion.
Bunches of engineers and professional sales personnel were recruited, and then they were dispatched to various manufacturing centers in the United States like sprinkling pepper, New York, Chicago, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Silicon Valley...
The Northern Dynasties were active everywhere.
Under Microsoft's vigorous promotion and the personal demonstration of several Fortune 500 companies in the world, Zhou Shuo's low-price strategy quickly attracted a lot of attention. In developed countries like the United States, if small companies want to survive fierce competition, they must pursue high-value-added industries. Such small and medium-sized high-tech enterprises pay more attention to lean production and agile manufacturing. The rapid transformation and careful cost make low-priced ERP customized systems very popular.
Orders increased at a slow but firm rate, and the entire floor of the office space of the Northern Dynasties Computer Company gradually became crowded, from empty to crowded, forming congestion...
“MerryChristmas!”
Pang Zhou smiled happily and cleaned the beer in his hand, and said excitedly: "Master, this is life. Thinking about my past days, I was so confused and wasted my life."
Zhou Shuo held up the beer but didn't drink it. Looking at the sumptuous Christmas dinner, he was stunned for a while. Suddenly, he said, "I'm going to return to China. After leaving, I'll give you a task. I want you to go to Stanford University to find a Baodao person named Jerry Yang. This will be our first venture capital project."
"Don't worry, Master, I've been waiting for this day for a long time!" Pang Zhou patted his chest and said, "But I should go back to see my parents too. Speaking of which, I haven't seen their two elders for almost half a year. Master, please go back first, and then I will go back to China once, okay?"
Zhou Shuo shook his head and said, "This time I return to China, I don't plan to come to the United States again in a short period of time."
"Hey?" Pang Zhou said in confusion: "Master, now our business is on the right track, and we have made a lot of dollars in. Why are you still staying in China? Is it not good for us to do a career in the United States?"
Zhou Shuo pinched the cup, drank all the wine in one sip, and said, "My heart has also been shaken. How good is it to be a rich man in the United States like now? Don't have to endure hardships or face endless despair."
He put down his cup and said lonely: "It's a pity that I can't. When I think that our Chinese people's salary is not as good as these Americans earn more in a day, when I think that our compatriots are still struggling on the survival line, and when I think that our electronics industry is falling further and further by Americans..."
"I know the gap between us and Americans is too far, but I still want to give it a try. Some people say that my ambitions in this life are a bit 'naive', but isn't it too sad if people still have to keep a petty heart when they are in YY? In this virtual world, I have no scruples. Why do I still have to live so tiring? I will never believe that my life can only be satisfied through money and women. I don't believe that it is unhappy to do a great thing with many people. At least in this world, I hope I am a stubborn idealist."
"I am not the Virgin, I will have bad intentions. I just want to make this life more meaningful."
"I hope that those who accompany me will allow me to be so willful."
"In a sentence from Brother Fa: I'm not on the road yet."
Chapter completed!