Chapter 27: IBM Mainframe
Just when Larry, Shegail and the others were very impressed by what Mavie did. A network engineer wearing glasses came to Larry and the others with a silence.
"Is there anything wrong? Martin?" Larry asked the man when he saw that he had something to do.
Hearing the president's question, Martin couldn't help but hold his glasses, and then whispered to the three of them, "That's right, President Larry, Chairman Mavie, and President Shegail. I just went to the computer room and found that there was no server inside."
"No server?" Larry and Shegail showed surprise and a hint of panic on both sides.
The two people's understanding of servers is not worse than that of network engineer Martin. The corporate website operates 24 hours a day, the customer's response speed when logging in to the website, the huge database, file information, and computing processing... all of these are inseparable from the support of the server.
To put it bluntly, if a company's servers are too backward, no matter how large the website develops, it will not be very useful. After all, its carrying capacity is limited.
I heard that the company's computer room lacked servers, and the 23 company backbones who had visited everywhere could not help but gathered to Ma Wei and the other four. I wanted to hear the company's senior management, whether the server was stolen or not.
Ma Wei, who was standing in the middle of the crowd, had long known that the server was missing. So he said to everyone directly, "Excite's x86 architecture server was auctioned by the court to another Internet company."
"Ah??? Why is it so unexpected..."
"Yes, it's really a coincidence, it's so unlucky!"
After the employees knew the truth, they sighed that this luck was really bad. If there was an x86 architecture server as support, the performance of their Google search engine would be several times higher! The response capability would be much better than before!
Just as the employees were sighing like this, Ma Wei, who was standing in the middle of the crowd, suddenly spoke to everyone, "Actually, there is nothing unlucky about this, because..."
Halfway through Mavie's words, he stopped talking. Hearing that Larry and Shegail, who were standing beside him, and the 24 employees around him, couldn't understand what he was doing.
However, at this moment, a pure white enclosed truck stopped in front of the company's door. Then, several Russian men in black suits trained to lift the unloading boards. Then, in front of everyone, unloaded the black chassis in the carriage smoothly.
Only the unloaded black chassis was very large and needed four strong Russian men to carry it onto the cart.
When the bodyguards in black sent the black host to the company safely, they saw Martin, a network engineer who knew very well, suddenly screamed and reached out to his head and said, "That's! That's! ibm mainframe! Oh my god!"
With his strange scream, Larry, Shegail and others also saw the "true face of Lushan" of the black host. That is the most awesome super server "ibm mainframe" in today's world!
The price of each "ibm mainframe" is as high as more than 3 million US dollars! What is the x86 server or Unix server? In front of the mainframe, the performance is like a slag, which is simply weak! Even if it is a cluster of x86 servers, it is difficult to offset the gap in performance and maintenance.
After all, "ibm mainframe" only needs to be maintained. And the x86 server cluster is too many, so it is difficult to maintain.
President Larry, Shegail and others looked at the bodyguard in amazement and transported the mainframe to everyone. Only the black case was seen as taller than some of the employees present. The wide black body was nearly three meters long.
"I bought it... the boss actually put a lot of money in it and equipped us with a mainframe! The price of this host is almost 6 times the market value of our company..." A female employee with fair skin quietly discussed with her colleagues.
"That's right! This is really scary! The new boss is really awesome, his courage is really great!" his companion responded in a low voice.
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The content of the whispering of everyone was also what Larry and Shegail thought. Mavie's move was really amazing and courageous! The acquisition of this new company, plus the investment of ibm mainframe, was at least tens of millions of dollars!
The two of them worked hard and started a business for a year and a half before they developed the company to a market value of 600,000 US dollars. Ma Wei's casual move was at the level of tens of millions of dollars. It was really beyond the reach of the two of them and was intimidated...
Almost everyone present was amazed by Mawei's big move.
Ma Wei, in the center of the venue, said to everyone in an understatement, "The hardware and office environment are now in place. I think everyone can see that this was originally the office location of excite. Before the Internet bubble crisis, the market value of excite was once speculated to 7.2 billion US dollars by capitalists. And our Google company only had a pitiful 600,000 US dollars."
"There is such a huge gap, one is 7.2 billion and the other is 600,000. Can someone tell me how many times the difference between the two?" Ma Wei can get the resources on hardware by spending money. But software resources, such as the company's future development direction and the beliefs of each employee, need him to lead, which is what the boss calls "motivation" and can also be called "brainwashing".
"Chairman Mawei is about 12,000 times less." Network engineer Martin replied quickly.
"That's right, it's nearly 12,000 times worse. The Internet company that was so prosperous at the time has now gotten this field. Where is our future?"
Mavie's question can be said to be the key. Most of the employees present, including Larry and Shegail, have not thought about the future seriously. They only know that everyone is working on the Internet, so they also take advantage of the popularity to invest in it. As for the future development, I really haven't thought about it, and I can't figure it out.
Seeing that everyone had not answered for a long time, Ma Wei said patiently to everyone with the experience of the future, "Here, I can tell you clearly that the future of Google will be in one or two years! When computers in developed countries around the world become popular and network coverage, there will be tens of millions and millions of users using our search engine!"
"Then it will be a digital and information age..." Ma Wei's talk made Larry, Shegail and others standing in front of him suddenly feel a sense of gradually enlightenment. It was as if the originally vague consciousness was suddenly lit up and clear...
Chapter completed!