Chapter 279: The Attention of Panda 00 (Part Two)

"Fellow colleagues, thank you for taking time out of your busy schedules to attend our meeting today. There are no outsiders here today, so now, I invite President Chen Li of Panda Security Protection Company to preside over this meeting!"

Sitting at the head of the conference table was naturally the president of Panda Communications Group—Wang Zilong.

As the largest internet giant in the country, Panda Communications has been established for nearly twenty years. Having grasped the trends of the era, it has long possessed a market value exceeding 200 billion US dollars, making it a hegemon-level internet giant that ranks among the top even on a global scale.

As Panda has developed to this point, its business is no longer limited to the social software it started with; it encompasses various industries including social networking, gaming, communications, finance, office software, security protection, and cloud services.

With such a large enterprise, it is natural that there are countless subsidiaries and numerous factions underneath it.

Therefore, although Wang Zilong is the president of the group, he appeared very courteous at the meeting.

As soon as Wang Zilong finished speaking, a slightly stout, middle-aged man with glasses sitting to his right stood up in response and nodded slightly to everyone in the conference room.

Afterward, he picked up the remote control placed in front of him and pressed it toward a projector at the front of the conference room, and a computer operating interface that was not unfamiliar to everyone immediately appeared on it.

"Win10?"

Chen Li immediately heard discussions erupt in the conference room, and he spoke up at this moment: "Fellow colleagues, we all make our living in the internet industry, and everyone deals with computers daily. I presume you have all recognized that what is displayed here is the operating interface of the Win10 operating system..."

"That's right, President Chen."

"President Chen, stop keeping us in suspense!"

Chen Li smiled. He was a veteran of Panda Communications, so he had dealt with many of the group's senior executives.

Without further ado, he said straightforwardly: "Alright, then I regret to inform everyone here that it is not Microsoft's Win10 operating system, but rather a free sharing system—【Pure Version XP】—optimized and launched based on Microsoft's XP operating system by a studio in our country, oh no, they have already established a company. What appears on the projection is from a startup in our country named 【Cybertron Technology Company】."

At this point, many people had already come to their senses, and a wave of whispering immediately broke out in the conference room.

"Pure Version XP? I think I've heard this name before..."

"Optimized based on the Microsoft XP system? Did they get authorization? I remember that our Panda spent a lot of effort back in '14 just to get Microsoft to agree to give us domestic usage authorization..."

"【Cybertron Technology Company】, hey, Old Tian, I just checked, this is still a startup doing cloud drives, it overlaps with your business..."

Chen Li waited a moment, and after the discussions gradually died down, he spoke again.

"... Pure Version XP System, I don't know if any colleagues present have used it. Regarding this operating system, our Security Protection Company actually discovered and noticed it more than half a month ago. Our company's Technical Department even pulled a group of elite technical backbones to conduct comprehensive research and analysis on it, and the results shocked us... Although the 【Pure Version XP】 system is just a product optimized based on Microsoft XP, the strength of the 【Cybertron Studio】 that developed it cannot be underestimated. They have clearly completely mastered the XP system, so this 【Pure Version XP】 is indeed optimized very thoroughly and cleanly..."

He paused again before dropping the final words heavily, "The difficulty is no less than developing an operating system from scratch!"

There were no fools in the conference room. Once Chen Li said this, everyone immediately understood; he must have taken a fancy to this startup called 【Cybertron Technology Company】.

Regarding this, everyone had no objections.

Panda Security Protection Company was originally a subsidiary under Panda Communications focused on internet information security protection. Its most important products were Panda Computer Manager and Panda Mobile Manager, which currently ranked second and third in download volume for security protection software on domestic PC and mobile platforms, respectively.

Previously, when Panda Communications reached a cooperation agreement with Microsoft to obtain the usage and subsequent maintenance authorization for Microsoft's XP system, it was Panda Security Protection Company, headed by Chen Li, that was responsible.

It seems that the ambitions of Panda Security Protection Company are not small; even if Chen Li and his team are not targeting Microsoft, they have set their sights on the massive market of operating systems.

Wang Zilong saw Chen Li looking over and nodded slightly.

He and Chen Li were veterans who joined Panda Communications in successive batches, so he took the initiative to ask: "President Chen, do you mean you are preparing to make contact with this startup?"

"Not just contact; I hope the head office can provide us with more support. If necessary, I hope to obtain a large authorization fund of no less than 100 million US dollars..."

As soon as his voice fell, Tian Zhong, the person in charge of Panda Weiyun, frowned, "100 million US dollars? President Chen, I just checked with my phone, this 【Cybertron Technology Company】 is currently a cloud drive enterprise... The domestic cloud drive market is a stagnant pool right now, and you are not unaware of the situation with our Weiyun. Is it necessary to use so much acquisition capital for just an optimized operating system?"

The situation at Panda Weiyun was indeed not good. Even though it relied on the parent company, Panda Communications, to have the largest number of registered users in the country, its activity and usage time were not even one-fourth or one-fifth of One Hundred Cloud Drive, and its cloud drive membership sales were not even one-tenth of One Hundred's. The poor data was evident.

Because of this, Weiyun already had plans to abandon the personal cloud drive market and focus on the enterprise cloud service market.

Indeed, Tian Zhong's words immediately drew several nods of agreement.

Clearly, within the penny-pinching Panda Communications, there was not much consensus on spending a sky-high acquisition fund to gamble on the potential of a startup.

However, Chen Li had the confidence to persuade them. He first walked to the door of the conference room, shouted, and immediately, the clerks waiting outside brought in several laptops.

Chen Li directed them to place the laptops one by one in front of the senior executives of Panda Communications and said: "I would like to invite everyone to try the user experience of this Pure Version XP system first. In my opinion, the new cloud drive product from 【Cybertron Technology Company】 is not worth mentioning, but the prowess of their technical staff in the field of operating systems is unquestionable. We all know that the current era has transitioned from the traditional internet to the era of the mobile internet. Therefore, I have my eye on 【Cybertron Studio】 not to enter the field of traditional operating systems by acquiring them, but to build an iron rice bowl for our group in the mobile internet era!"

"A mobile phone operating system?"

Everyone present was sharp, and they quickly understood the meaning behind his words.

At this, even Tian Zhong, who had just been opposing it, only frowned slightly but said nothing more.

Looking globally, the three mobile phone operating systems with the largest current market share all come from the United States across the ocean: Google's Android, Apple's iOS, and Microsoft's Windows series.

Although Microsoft's Windows is far less successful than Android and iOS, it is truly not because their operating system is bad, but because Microsoft, as an operating system giant of the traditional internet era, has never been able to use the new model of the mobile internet.

And this point happens to be the strength of Panda Communications.

One must know that among the domestic enterprises that transitioned from the traditional internet to the mobile internet, Panda was the fastest to adapt and lived the best.

Panda has always had the ambition to independently develop a mobile phone operating system, but it lacked experience in this area, and progress was slow right from the start.

Therefore, as Chen Li said, the emergence of 【Cybertron Studio】, which possesses impressive operating system optimization skills, has given Panda Communications the opportunity to independently develop a mobile operating system.

At this moment, Wang Zilong, as the president of Panda Communications Group, swept his gaze across everyone in turn. Seeing that no one else expressed any opposition, he then said: "Regarding the authorization issue, I need to bring it up with the board of directors, but it shouldn't be a big problem. President Chen, finalize the plan on your end as soon as possible, and go ahead and make contact with them!"