Chapter 490: Takeoff (Part II)

"A Letter from Panda to All Users!"

"Dear Weiyun users, greetings. Since our launch on 【Date】 201X, we have always been grateful for your support of our group's product—Weiyun Cloud Drive."

"Due to the group's performance optimization and adjustments, and also to provide all users with better and higher-quality services, we have recently reached a cooperation agreement with 【Cybertron Technology Co., Ltd.】 to sell our private Weiyun Cloud Drive business to said company, while the Weiyun enterprise cloud drive business will be taken over by Panda Cloud Service."

"Panda Weiyun will terminate new user registrations and data uploads on July 1st. Simultaneously, from July 1st to July 3rd, all private user data upload and download services will be suspended to prevent the loss of valuable data during the process of handing over servers and user data to 【Cybertron Technology Co., Ltd.】 and Panda Cloud Service."

"Hereby, Panda extends its sincere apologies for the inconvenience caused to everyone."

"However, all users please rest assured that there is no need to worry about the loss of personal data or the inability to use Panda OO to log in in the future."

"At the same time, all users who have purchased annual memberships or other value-added services on Weiyun Cloud Drive will continue to enjoy the same services on 【Cybertron Cloud Drive】 after all data has been transferred, or they may choose to purchase higher-quality services at a discounted price!"

"Hereby, Panda Communications Group!"

Once the letter to all users was released, the official response confirmed 【Cybertron Technology】's acquisition of Panda Weiyun.

In an instant, countless media outlets swarmed in, attempting to interview for more details regarding the acquisition.

However, they were destined to have made the trip in vain.

CEO Wang Lu had already gone to Shenzhen and Hong Kong to coordinate the relocation of servers and user data from Weiyun, as well as the personnel arrangements for the hundreds of staff members there; he would not be able to return for at least a week.

Sun Cheng did not like dealing with the media, and after delegating the work, he did not intend to show his face at the company for the next few days.

In any case, the official website of 【Cybertron Technology】 had also simultaneously announced the acquisition of Panda Weiyun; as for the inside story the media was concerned about, he would leave it to Wang Lu to handle upon his return.

Of course, it was not as if Sun Cheng had nothing to do; on the contrary, he was very busy, extremely busy.

Reports from the outside world regarding the mobile hard drives that 【Cybertron Technology】 had begun to deliver to users were increasing; currently, only a few hundred thousand units had been shipped, and a portion of those had not yet reached the users' hands due to courier issues, so information regarding the hard drive manufacturer could barely be kept hidden.

But as time passed, with more and more reports and attention, these problems he had left behind due to insufficient consideration would eventually have to be solved.

To this end, Sun Cheng set his sights on an established domestic storage equipment manufacturer—Xinhai Technology.

This enterprise, founded in 2005, could not be considered a veteran in the domestic storage equipment field; in fact, in recent years, as the production equipment introduced over a decade ago continued to age and malfunction, the product qualification rate had become lower and lower, and defective products appeared constantly, leading to a serious decline in reputation, which in turn affected Xinhai Technology's revenue.

The production costs of domestic storage equipment were already higher than those of the few major United States giants; if not for the fact that they could still secure some important orders from the government, the military, and research institutions, they would likely have been crushed long ago.

But even so, many domestic storage equipment manufacturers, including Xinhai Technology, were having a hard time; after all, the products they manufactured were far inferior to those of the few United States storage giants in terms of both production processes and storage technology, so they simply could not compete with them.

Xinhai Technology was not the largest storage equipment manufacturer in the country, but the reason Sun Cheng took a fancy to it was that the company's headquarters was located in Nandu; although its three storage equipment production bases were not in Nandu, they were all located in the nearby Anhui Province, with a drive time of no more than five hours, which was convenient and fast.

As for equipment, Sun Cheng was not worried about being unable to purchase the latest production lines from abroad; before returning from the 【Transformers】 universe this time, he had made full preparations, and the massive amount of supplies he brought back included many semiconductor production devices that were difficult to purchase in this world, many of which were manufactured by his Decepticon engineers after they had obtained the technology from various semiconductor equipment manufacturers in the 【Transformers】 universe and improved upon it; even if brought to the real world, they would likely be at least a generation ahead.

Of course, all of this would have to wait until he made contact with Xinhai Technology and confirmed that the other party had the intention to sell.

There was more than one matter that Sun Cheng needed to be busy with; he had also finally accepted the invitation from Nandu University of Technology and was preparing to return to his alma mater in a few days to completely conclude his four-year university career, which had felt like a dream.

Nandu University of Technology had already called him several times to coordinate, but Sun Cheng had not yet decided whether to attend the graduation ceremony.

As a premier science and engineering university in the country, Nandu University of Technology had always upheld an attitude of encouragement and support for students starting businesses while still in school.

Not to mention that the school specifically designated several old teaching buildings to provide office space for student startup teams, there was even a fund for support.

Even regarding the student status issue that most students preparing to start businesses worried about, Nandu University of Technology was extremely enlightened in this regard.

One could choose to voluntarily suspend their studies for one year; after all, the vast majority of startups could not last through a single semester, let alone an academic year.

One could also choose not to suspend their studies and start a business while enrolled, and the startup achievements could also offset most of the school's comprehensive evaluations and even professional exams; of course, a graduation thesis was definitely indispensable.

However, if one were to really talk about it, what made Sun Cheng feel most touched by his alma mater was that it scheduled the graduation certificate awarding ceremony for student entrepreneurs in mid-July.

By this time, the semester had already ended, and except for a portion of students preparing for postgraduate entrance exams and doctoral students, the vast majority of students had already left school to go home for summer vacation.

It was a bit deserted, but it was the most appropriate time to hold a graduation ceremony for those student entrepreneurs.

After all, the words "student entrepreneurship" were simple to write and easy to read, but the dangers and hardships within were only known to those who had experienced them personally.

For this brief moment of glory, those who fell into massive debt or even went bankrupt were everywhere, and those who ultimately succeeded were often one in a hundred.

Everyone who could be admitted to Nandu University of Technology, a premier science and engineering institution in the country, was a pride of heaven, and among those who chose to start a business during their university years, there was no lack of geniuses among geniuses.

Startup success was certainly wonderful, but the blow after failure was heavy; at this time, licking one's wounds in silence was undoubtedly a more humane choice than letting a group of people watch the down-and-out failure.

This year, the graduation ceremony held by Nandu University of Technology for graduating seniors who started businesses was on July 9th, and there were still a few days left before that.

Besides preparing to attempt contact with Xinhai Technology, Sun Cheng had one more very important thing to do, and that was to retrieve the Spy Robot he had deployed to the Nandu Supercomputing Center when he last returned to the real world.