Snapdragon is eager to seek talent now, so Liu Yunlai decided not to go to the United States for inspection, but to help in Yuncheng. Of course, Du Qiu couldn't ask for it. He immediately called Jiang Danfeng and asked her to do a good job in reception. Then he met with Qin Mu, who had arrived in the capital last night, and took four interns who had obtained visas to board the plane to the United States.

The plan to use Microsoft to gain popularity was very successful. After the news of the $4 million cooperation fee and the opportunity to go to the United States for training were spread, the outside world had a specific understanding of Snapdragon's strength and prospects, and its attractiveness also rose sharply.

Before reaching the cooperation agreement, Xu Yongrui, Qin Mu and Xiao Wu only recruited 18 interns after three inspections, all from Sanjiang University and Yuncheng University, two second-rate key universities, and China University of Science and Technology, a top-notch university. After reaching the cooperation agreement, Li Jianhua and He Lixing recruited famous interns after two inspections, not only two top students from the University of Science and Technology, but also masters and doctoral students from Sanjiang University and Yuncheng University, and the quantity and quality have improved significantly.

According to the agreement, Microsoft will train Snapdragon employees for free during the cooperation period, with 10 places each quarter. Starting from August, this time, it brought 4 people in advance. It was nominally Du Qiu's assistant, who wrote browser programs for Microsoft, but in fact, it was the pre-stop for future training.

Among these four people, one is Zhao Hongfei, who was originally recruited by Xiao Wu from Beijing. He is a student of Beijing University of Technology. He has always wanted to work in Silicon Valley before, so he practiced English speaking and performed well during the internship period. He has officially signed a contract. He skipped the a3 level directly, started with a4, and had a bright future.

The other is Chen Dawei, who had played games with Yuan Tiangang before, and he had basically not done his graduation design and had no words to write the thesis. So in April and May, he was busy cleaning up the mess. After the thesis was written, he uploaded some codes to the computer room server. At the end of May, he passed Xiao Wu's acceptance and joined Snapdragon as an intern.

Chen Dawei has a good family background. He learned English from his father who returned from studying abroad since childhood. He also accompanied his business mother to travel to the United States. He was very fluent in English. He also learned programming with Du Qiu after the Spring Festival, two or three months earlier than others, and his level improved rapidly. Therefore, although he entered Snapdragon very late, he stood out and became one of the best interns.

The remaining two are interns recruited by Li Jianhua last week. One is a student from China University of Technology, named Han Yong. He originally studied applied mathematics and computer technology himself. More than 50% of graduates from University of Technology can get the opportunity to study abroad every year. Therefore, students generally attach great importance to English, and Han Yong is no exception. He originally received a scholarship from a university in the United States, but he disliked the bad school, so he did not go there. Instead, he chose to stay at school for graduate school. Now he plans to stop studying for graduate school and work directly.

The last one is Zhang Dongliang, who is a fresh graduate of Sanjiang University. He belongs to the type of general who is a slut. Most of the interns have poor English. Many people have not finished their graduation thesis in the remaining half. After two screenings, Zhang Dongliang was selected in a confused manner. His computer level is very average, but because his parents work in foreign-related units, he speaks very well in English.

On the afternoon of June 8th, local time in the United States, after more than ten hours of flight and then after a round trip, Du Qiu and his group finally arrived in Seattle.

The one who picked up the plane at the airport was not Microsoft's employee, but Xu Yongrui. He came to the United States with Chen Dayou a few days ago. Netjing, who had been uninterested in formulating HTML standards, suddenly became keen on this work and invited Snapdragon to set up a joint working group to discuss how to regulate the HTML language. Du Qiu was busy recruiting soldiers in the capital at that time, so he sent him here.

"How is the situation going on in the past few days?"

"There is no progress, and every day is arguing. It can be called the Internet version of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms." Xu Yongrui hired an 8-seat MPV with a driver and took a group to a hotel near Microsoft's headquarters. He said on the way: "Net View means that we two have separate HTML language standards. Microsoft does not agree and must participate. However, they do not have a browser at present, so they took out the draft of the IET working group and joined forces with several other small browser companies to express their intention to develop an open unified standard. The quarrels these days are all trivial matters, and no one mentioned the standard itself."

It is the abbreviation of the Internet Engineering Task Force. It is an organization responsible for developing and promoting the development of Internet standards. It is said to be more efficient, humble and open than the International Organization for Standardization ISO and the International Telecommunications Union Itu. However, in fact, it is more inefficient than these two organizations known for their bureaucracy. In 1991, Tim Berners-Lee invented the HTML language, and in 1993, IET announced the first draft standard. This draft is very rough and cannot become a standard, nor is it accepted by the industry. Therefore, several drafts were issued in succession to repair it, which was delayed from 1993 to 1995, and is still being repaired.

lEven the basic standards have not yet been formed. IET made another competitive html+ in 1994, and html+ was also unpopular. So they combined the two, intending to skip 2.0, and made a draft in April 1995. This draft was a hodgepodge. After it was released, it was silent and had no sense of existence.

In the original time and space, Netscape and Microsoft didn't care about any standards at all. They each developed a bunch of functions that only their browsers supported, competing with each other, and separating the Internet experience. Therefore, the most eye-catching on the homepage of many websites at that time was not advertising, but prompts such as "use sape to get the best results" and "use ie to get the best results". It was not until Microsoft defeated Netscape to dominate the browser market in 1998 that the three organizations gradually became the standard that the Internet was popular.

Unexpectedly, Microsoft, a wealthy local tycoon, actually learned from the common people to play tricks and took them out as a guise...

"What do you think about this?"

"Netjing does not really want to formulate html language standards with us, but wants to sow discord and stir up the cooperation between Huang Xiaolong and Microsoft." Xu Yongrui was very flexible and analyzed: "Microsoft does not attach much importance to browsers themselves, but it does not mean that they do not attach importance to Internet standards. If we make separate standards with Netjing, it is equivalent to stumbling their necks, and they will definitely tear up the cooperation agreement and start a new job."

"On the one hand, on the other hand, I guess they are bluffing." Netjing's reaction was expected by Du Qiu and asked casually: "Netjing should be listed on Nasdaq before indo95 is released, right?"

"Yes, it is said that it is scheduled to be in early August, which looks like two weeks before the release of indos95."

"There is not much time left before listing. They must show that they dominate the market and everything is in control, so that investors can feel at ease and push up the stock price."

"They went public and they were their business. What should we do if we were dragged into the water?" Chen Dawei interrupted with a little displeasure: "Just don't pay attention to them. We are working with Microsoft, not with them."

"The Internet is an emerging industry, just like the p industry in the early 1980s." Du Qiu smiled and explained: "When Apple first invented P, some people were optimistic and some people suspected it, but when Apple successfully went public, there was a successful precedent, and the doubt disappeared immediately. The entire market flourished at an extremely fast speed. The market is like a pond. The bigger the pond, the bigger the fish inside. Netscape is the first listed company in the Internet industry, which is equivalent to Apple back then. It was a benchmark company. If it was successfully listed, it would definitely attract a large amount of investment into the Internet industry and make this industry prosperous. We can also benefit from it at that time, so we should help them."

"How to help?"

"Help them delay time." Du Qiu did not hide his friendship with Chen Dawei, patted his shoulder and asked with a smile: "Dawei, do you know what the most headache-inducing thing about your third brother is now?"

"What?"

"The product fragmentation brought by open source." Du Qiu raised a few fingers and said: "In addition to the official 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2, ivie browser also has more than a dozen variants of different platforms and different versions. These variants are not controlled by Snapdragon, cannot integrate the iard homepage, and cannot bring benefits."

Xu Yongrui has been in Silicon Valley for a few days ago, and knew the inside story, saying: "Mr. Chen is really troublesome. Currently, there are about 1 million users in ivie browser, but the 1.3 version has only about 200,000 users, so he received less than 100,000 US dollars in advertising fees last month. If all of these 1 million are built in the iard homepage, the monthly income will be at least more than 400,000 US dollars."

"Product fragmentation is a chronic disease of open source software, but it is not impossible to solve it." Du Qiu sat upright and said lightly: "If I hadn't wanted to help Netscape, when I first released the IVie browser, I would use a combination of closed source and open source. The homepage only provides closed source versions, and the open source version is placed in the forum or news group. Ordinary users do not care about open source, but only care about free, so they will definitely download the latest official version on the homepage, so that they can avoid product fragmentation to the greatest extent."

"Mr. Du, you are playing hard to get." Qin Mu understood this instantly and praised: "Ivie browser is open source and free, and it is seriously fragmented. It does not have the ability to challenge Netscape in the outside world, and it will not affect their listing. After they go public, we will suddenly make efforts to build it down and replace it. Snapdragon will be majestic at that time."

"Brother Qiu, you are so sinister!"

Zhao Hongfei flattered: "Mr. Du is not insidious, he has a view of the overall situation. He is very young, so learn more."

Han Yong, who was sitting at the end of the SUV, was recruited by Snapdragon. He had never been with Du Qiu and had not been completely brainwashed. Seeing that everyone in the car had a natural expression, he thought it was a good plan like a genius, which was a bit incredible. He thought they were crazy. After hesitating for a moment, he reminded him: "Netjing is not a small company. If it goes public, its strength will definitely be stronger. How can we compete with them?"

"When Netscape and Microsoft fight, there will be a injury. We can just sit in the mountains and watch the tiger fight." Zhao Hongfei was one of the earliest interns. He has been brainwashed by Du Qiu's theory. He waved his hand indifferently and said, "Tou Xu, the idea you made is specially prepared for killing tigers, right?"

Xu Yongrui pushed his glasses with a smile, neither admitting nor denying it.

"You guys come to the United States this time, don't just focus on technology. Microsoft has many places to learn, especially management. You should read, ask and think more." Du Qiu gently let go of this topic, reminded them a few times, and then said to Chen Dawei: "Forget it, concentrate on learning technology, don't worry about anything else."

"I know." Chen Dawei didn't feel coldly treated, but instead felt a little proud. He smiled and said, "Brother Qiu, don't worry, I am not good at other levels, and my ability to steal the skills is still good." (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!