Back To 1995

   Chapter 457

   In addition to the huge US knife reward, Alcatel Mobile has again reported that option rewards will be opened, and the target is still the management of Alcatel Mobile, as well as the personnel of the R&D department and laboratory.

You must know that the scale of Alcatel mobile R&D personnel is not large, only a few thousand people. Even if it is allocated to a part of the cooperating Bell Labs, the R&D personnel of Alcatel mobile phones can, on average, be distributed to each person this time. To the cash reward of nearly 100,000 dollars, not to mention, the big head is the option reward in the back!

   Now everyone can see that as long as the Alcatel mobile phone does not pull the crotch, the launch of the second-generation mobile phone is just a matter of course for Alcatel mobile phones.

As long as it is listed, it will immediately become a benchmark for mobile phone giants such as Nokia, Motorola, Ericsson, etc. The market value is conservatively more than tens of billions of dollars. Obtaining options on Alcatel mobile phones is basically equivalent to realizing wealth freedom. !

  The huge rewards of Alcatel mobile phones, as well as options, have stimulated countless companies in Silicon Valley, and there are countless technology companies in Silicon Valley, but it is rare to be so arrogant.

   Even in the big Wall Street companies, most of the dividends and rewards are for executives. Unless they are geniuses, it is difficult for ordinary employees to get various rewards.

   But this time, although Alcatel mobile phone is also for the management, the same technical personnel and personnel from other departments also have the opportunity to get options!

This has stimulated countless people. Almost as soon as the news came out, technicians who wanted to change jobs to Alcatel Mobile began to appear. Compared with advertising and hiring headhunting companies, it was much more immediate. No matter how good an advertisement is, it can't compare to a hairdressing knife with real money...

In addition to rewards and options, Alcatel Mobile has also introduced a series of changes, making changes to the industry chain supplier companies again, publicly claiming to support the industry chain manufacturers of Alcatel mobile phones, whether it is components or raw materials Manufacturers, make them the top companies in the industry!

It’s hard to say how the slogan   , but Alcatel Mobile reserves the profits of the supply chain manufacturers and let them develop new technologies and new products, but they really took out the US knife and gave them the profits!

Of course, in order to prevent the growth of white-eyed wolves, Alcatel Mobile also made a request to become an Alcatel mobile phone supply chain. Supplier, Alcatel Mobile has the right to ask this supplier to prohibit cooperation with certain competitors!

   This agreement is very domineering. For big companies such as 3M, it is impossible to sign this agreement. The revenue supplied to Alcatel Mobile is only a part of 3M's business, and it does not pay attention to the agreement of Alcatel Mobile.

Alcatel mobile phones are not ready to ask big manufacturers such as 3M to sign this agreement. The key is those small and medium-sized manufacturers. Seeing that the sales of Alcatel mobile phones are getting higher and higher, these small and medium-sized manufacturers do not want to miss the huge amount of Alcatel mobile phones. For orders, we can only sign this pit-entry agreement with Alcatel Mobile!

In addition to these, the mobile phone peers who were watching the every move of Alcatel mobile phones found that Alcatel mobile phones suddenly began to dig into the corners of companies such as memory, wireless communication, Walkman, and musical instrument manufacturers, and dug a lot of these at high prices. The tech giants of the industry.

   Seeing Alcatel's operation, many mobile phone manufacturers have noticed that Alcatel is preparing to develop new phones, and these industries that can dig corners are really confusing.

   Those who dig memory manufacturers can also think that Alcatel's new generation of mobile phones may expand the memory. After all, the memory of the P1 mobile phone is really not enough.

  People with wireless communication technology can also understand that Alcatel mobile phones definitely want to improve the technology of mobile Internet, and now mobile Internet access, but the logo of Alcatel mobile phones represents high-tech…

   But the next few hands made people a little puzzled. People from Walkman and musical instrument manufacturers were digging, Alcatel mobile phones, what are they going to play? It really makes people unable to figure out!

While America and other mobile phone counterparts were still speculating on Alcatel mobile phones and what they wanted to do, the Saipan system personnel in England had already approached the Fraunhofer Research Association in Germany and spent four hundred thousand dollars. The price, bought the MP3 license.

At the price of sixty US dollars per year, it is required to obtain global patent authorization. Saipan system signed a ten-year patent license in one breath, that is, within ten years, the MP3 patent and technology of the Fraunhofer Research Association in Germany. , are managed by the Saipan system, other manufacturers want to use the patents and technologies related to MP3, they have to pay the Saipan system...

Such a price is indeed beyond the expectations of the Fraunhofer Research Association in Germany. MP3 technology has been developed long ago, but now, it is only used as an audio format, and that's it. MP3 Compared with CD, the sound quality is far inferior to that of CD. Professional musicians do not look down on MP3 technology at all, and regard it as a heresy.

   It is the rise of the Internet in the past two years, MP3 has been used as a software for encoding voice files on the computer, and MP3 has been used, which has allowed MP3 to be used slowly.

   But that's all, there is no company that has commercialized MP3 technology, that is, used in electronic products.

The German Fraunhofer Research Association does not know why the Saipan system is going to be bought back, and it also keeps it. The German Fraunhofer Research Association requires that if the Saipan system is used in the future, the MP3 technology will be commercialized, or other manufacturers will use these technologies. , must be distributed to the German Fraunhofer Research Association, because the MP3 technology generates more than 3% of the patent fee.

Saipan's personnel in Europe, after consulting the Alcatel Mobile Headquarters, negotiated with the Fraunhofer Research Association in Germany. The Saipan system is used by itself, and there is no need to pay again, but it is authorized to be used by other brands. The Fraunhofer Research Association will have to pay a patent fee.

  Seattle Microsoft headquarters, this year, Microsoft finally experienced the feeling of being chased and bitten by a dog. Since Netscape started suing Microsoft for monopoly on browsers, it has been chasing Microsoft in dozens of states in America.

Recently, Netscape is still not satisfied, and has spread the war to Europe and Asia. Together with a number of software companies in Europe that have suffered from Microsoft's suffering, they have launched a lawsuit against Microsoft. They all see that Microsoft is not pleasing to the eye, and they want to follow suit and initiate a lawsuit against Microsoft, mainly to get a fine from Microsoft.

   In the face of lawsuits, anti-monopoly, and infringement cases all over the world, Microsoft finally felt it was difficult, and Bill Gates was not tired of it.

   "So, this time, I'm going to enter Capitol Hill and be questioned by those old folks who don't understand technology at all?!"

Bill Gates was furious at the executives in front of him, as well as the invited legal experts and consultants, and the group of people who were exported, led by General Counsel Brad Smith, was also silent for a while. .

This time, Netscape was obviously rushing to die with Microsoft. It didn’t want to settle at all, but wanted to kill Microsoft. For this reason, Jim Clark refused continuously. Microsoft’s settlement agreement was proposed by the middleman, among which Including a veteran congressman on Capitol Hill, Jim Clark refused to even show his face.

Seeing a group of lawyers who spent a lot of money and formed a group of lawyers, all of them were silent at this time. Bill Gates irritably pulled off his tie and said with an angry smile, "Bruno Song didn't even get sent. I'm being questioned on Capitol Hill, and now I'm going to be sent up, right?"

Thinking of this, Bill Gates is depressed. Song Yang is so new to the Trade Commission, and he has not been sent to Capitol Hill to make a fool of himself. It is Microsoft's turn, but he may become America, the first person to be questioned on Capitol Hill. , can be regarded as making history, but Bill Gates does not want such a record at all.

"This time is different. The Federal Department of Justice has come forward, and Netscape has provided too much evidence. Perhaps, entering Capitol Hill, facing members of Capitol Hill, and all the users and audiences of America, for Microsoft, on the contrary, It is an opportunity to get more supporters, and to let the entire American people understand that breaking up Microsoft is not the best choice, Microsoft should be the pride of the American technology industry, not a rival!"

  Brad Smith said to Bill Gates that he thinks that Microsoft has a bad image and is regarded as a villain. To make Microsoft change, at least on the surface.

  Bill Gates was about to speak when the office door was pushed open. The assistant came in and handed Bill Gates a document, "Director of the mobile device department, I will give you this document and say this matter is very important!"

   Picking up the document, Bill Gates looked at it a few times, then he looked surprised, and then his face became solemn, "Let him come over now!"

   (end of this chapter)