Chapter 348

Whether it is programmers who develop software now or code farmers in the future, working overtime and staying up late is the norm. In the long night, cigarettes and coffee are basically necessities, just a matter of more or less, otherwise how to face the strings of code on the computer screen.

When Li Dongling entered the conference room, it was filled with smoke. Zhou Zhinong, Wu Xiaojun, Wang Jiangmin, and other old guns from Zhongguancun were all heavy smokers without exception.

As for Giant Boss Shi, as well as the current Zhou Jiaozhu, including Lei Shen, Sohu Boss Zhang, Ali Boss Ma, and others, they were also smokers, but later they quit for various reasons.

It is rumored that when Zhou Hongyi first met Sohu Boss Zhang, he pushed open the office door, and Boss Zhang had his feet on the desk. The first sentence he said was to ask Zhou Jiaozhu if he wanted a cigar. That was when Boss Zhang was the number one person in the domestic internet and was infinitely glorious.

It's just that in this life, it is estimated that Zhou Jiaozhu will find it difficult to encounter that scene. Zhou Jiaozhu is now under Dongling High-Tech, and Boss Zhang is still overseas and has not returned to the country. He debuted much earlier than the other party.

After the Tianya input method and Tianya Forum were released, as long as Zhou Jiaozhu does not leave Tianya Net, the name is estimated to be a bit louder than Boss Zhang's. Who visits whom is not necessarily certain.

Li Dongling is prepared to let the Tianya input method be bundled with the Shenzhou U-disk for sale. Buy a Shenzhou U-disk and get a free Tianya Pinyin input method!

This is completely testing human nature. Is it to spend money to buy a U-disk and then use the Pinyin input method that can be used without practice for free, or to refuse to spend money and stick to the Wubi input method? It is left to the user to choose!

"The Tianya input method must continue to be upgraded in the future. Not to mention completely replacing the Wubi input method, but to make the Pinyin input method the most commonly used, most liked, and most accustomed input method for computer users!"

"Manager Guo, let the finance department distribute the bonus for developing the Pinyin input method to the technical department. In addition, for personnel in other departments, distribute an extra month's salary this month as a bonus!" Li Dongling said to Guo Jingyun.

After seeing Li Dongling come in, the group of heavy smokers pinched out their cigarette butts one after another. A Tianya Net company supervisor got up and opened the window, letting the few green plants on the conference room table that were swaying precariously survive.

The public version of the Tianya input method is free, so it certainly cannot be sold through Lianbang, otherwise, it would have to pay Lianbang Software, which is too cost-ineffective.

Because software at this time is like songs, it is sold through CDs. Lianbang Software is currently the number one genuine software sales store in the country. It has stores all over the country, and most of the genuine software from companies like Jin Shan is sold from Lianbang Software.

"Now for Tianya Net, the most important thing is to have a sufficiently large user scale. Perhaps, when the internet wave rising in Silicon Valley also sets off a stormy sea in the country, the Tianya input method can also achieve profitability through this!"

Li Dongling looked at Zhou Zhinong. The first generation of the Tianya input method was led by him, and subsequent upgrades are naturally what he is most familiar with.

And this kind of enterprise version of the input method can be sold at most once. It is impossible to charge for every upgrade like the Microsoft system, right? Believe it or not, the Tianya input method will be replaced in minutes.

After Li Dongling sat down, he went straight to the point and said. Zhou Zhinong, Wu Xiaojun, Wang Jiangmin, and others have their seniority there, so pouring chicken soup and drawing big cakes for them is useless.

"I am worried that selling the enterprise version of the Tianya voice input method is probably... difficult to recover costs, and it will be impossible to rely on municipal procurement or selling the enterprise version of the input method to earn back enough funds to continue to provide enough R&D funds for the input method team!"

Guo Jingyun expressed his worries. Relying solely on municipal procurement, counting the Economic and Trade Commission, the Foreign Exchange Department, Yanjing Finance, Industry and Commerce, and other departments, spending hundreds of thousands to purchase the Tianya Pinyin input method is already a sky-high price. This is still for the sake of Tianya's parent company, Dongling High-Tech.

Li Dongling said with a smile. Just take the Sogou input method as an example. It is basically a platform for Sogou to attract traffic. Using the Sogou input method to guide users to Sogou's browser, mobile assistant, search engine, etc. In addition, there are revenues from selling input method theme skins, advertising keywords, etc. Finally, when it was sold, it also sold for a value of 3.5 billion US dollars.

Even Zhou Zhinong and the others could not be indifferent to this bonus.

Compared to the big cake Li Dongling drew for him, or the starry sea extended from the input method, the Natural Code is really not fragrant in Zhou Zhinong's heart. The white moonlight of the past has now become the cow lady.

"In the future, if the Tianya input method can develop a voice input method, it can also enter the hardware industry, launch simultaneous translation earphones, translators, and other products. Of course, that takes time. As for now..."

"I hope that in the future, no matter what brand of computer or what computer system users use, the first thing they think of when using an input method is the Tianya Pinyin input method!"

Hearing this, Zhou Zhinong and others, who were the main force in developing the Pinyin input method, also showed joy on their faces. The benefit of relying on Dongling High-Tech is that they don't have to worry about funds. As the internet business department under Dongling High-Tech, Tianya Net enjoys the same treatment as Dongling High-Tech's technical department. After completing the project, the bonus is quite generous.

Visibly, if it relies solely on municipal procurement, the Tianya Pinyin input method is probably difficult to be profitable. In the future, it may lose more as it is developed and upgraded.

But now, Zhou Zhinong's mind is all on the Tianya input method. The lawsuit of the Natural Code is more about letting him vent his depression.

"Old Zhou, the subsequent upgrades of the Tianya input method will still be done by you!"

As for leaving Yanjing, perhaps in large cities like Shanghai, Yangcheng, Hangcheng, Rongcheng, etc., it can still sell a portion by relying on municipal procurement. As for other places, it is estimated to be difficult.

Guo Jingyun, Zhou Zhinong, Zhou Hongyi, Zhu Chongjun, Wang Jiangmin, and others all looked at Li Dongling in a daze, and for the first time, they felt that they could still play like this!

Why is Netscape so awesome in Silicon Valley now, daring to challenge Microsoft, and even the founder of Netscape daring to shout the slogan of replacing Microsoft? This is not Netscape bragging, but it really almost did it once!

Netscape is a browser. Whether it is the world's first browser may be controversial, but it is the world's first browser developed based on the internet, which is a fact. To explain Netscape's status on the internet in one sentence, it is the door for users to use computers to reach the internet world!

"Thank you all for developing the Tianya Pinyin input method!"

Hearing this, Zhou Zhinong also pricked up his ears. Everyone knows that loss-making business cannot last long. If it keeps losing money, even if Li Dongling is willing to support it and Dongling High-Tech is willing to continue to throw money, to be honest, the technical team of the Tianya input method is all working in fear, afraid that one day they will be swept out of the door because they stepped into the company with their left foot first...

"Shenzhou U-disk, in the way of sales commission, will share this part of the profit with the Tianya input method R&D team. In the next few years, this kind of cooperation can be temporarily adopted!"

Li Dongling looked at Guo Jingyun, Zhou Zhinong, and others who cast their eyes on him, coughed, and said, "The Tianya input method can temporarily cooperate with Shenzhou Storage to launch a co-branded Shenzhou Tianya voice U-disk, embedding the Tianya input method into the Shenzhou U-disk. Users buy the U-disk and get the Tianya input method for free!"

Zhou Zhinong still remembers the big cake Li Dongling drew for him. The Pinyin input method will be upgraded to an internet input method, voice input method, artificial intelligence input method, etc. in the future.

For the company, purchasing the enterprise version of the Tianya input method is indeed a way. However, except for large state-owned enterprises or large companies, other small and medium-sized companies are estimated to not spend tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of real money for a broken input method at all.

In fact, when the Tianya input method is released, if it is not charged, a group of competitors will emerge. If it is charged, I am afraid it will be besieged by other Pinyin input methods immediately.

Guo Jingyun said at this time, "Mr. Li, is the Tianya input method really going to provide a free version of the input method to the general public?"

In addition, the input method can also be extended to text-to-speech, and can also make language into text, including dozens of dialect conversions, foreign languages, automatic translation, voice input subtitles, etc. These many functions are all hanging in his heart.

People are lazy. No one likes to suffer naturally. When there is a shortcut to take, who the hell wants to suffer? It's not an old ox, naturally a cow-horse holy body.

"I understand!" Guo Jingyun responded.

Before Netscape, there was no channel to download software on the computer, that is, if you want to install software, you must use a CD with built-in software to download on the computer. This is also why Jin Shan launched software, but the result was all pirated.

Li Dongling pondered for a moment, "The input method will be profitable in the future, it just needs a sufficiently large user scale, and it also needs to wait for the opportunity!"

Zhou Zhinong nodded. He is now full of energy. The "Natural Code" input method he developed, Dongling High-Tech has already filed a lawsuit to help him get the copyright back.

As long as there are people who are unwilling to suffer and practice Wubi, the co-branded U-disk of Shenzhou and Tianya Pinyin input method can be sold, and the number of such computer user groups may far exceed imagination!

If you can rely on the Pinyin input method to explode a portion of the sales of Shenzhou U-disks, sell tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands more U-disks, then the funds shared with the Tianya input method team are not a big deal, right?

Of course, there will definitely be people who pirate the Tianya Pinyin input method later, and they are unwilling to buy a U-disk of several hundred yuan for an input method.

However, it doesn't matter. The memory and functions of Shenzhou U-disks are constantly upgraded. At least one or two new U-disks are released every year. The Tianya input method is also constantly upgraded. As long as the two sides cooperate, it can stimulate a wave of sales, and that is profit!

As long as domestic internet browsers have not been popularized, this trick can always be used. Using it for a few years is probably not a problem.

(End of chapter)