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Zhang Bowen murmured in his heart. After a while, Samuel Palmisano looked at the other party and asked, "Your company is going to be in the cloud... Oh yes, it should not be the final investment. Scale?"

Strange to say, Palmisano is a little confused. Why do Luo Sheng and Jeff Bezos both like cloud computing so much?

Amazon also said that in the past, Bluestar Technology has been playing so big since it came up. Obviously, it is extremely convinced that this concept, which has been born for nearly two decades, has great promise.

The question is, the concept of more than 20 years ago is still the same now. Is it really promising?

If by any chance it is still a bird in twenty years, Bluestar Technology Group will probably cry to death.

It's crazy to look at such a big investment in an unclear field.

However, what does Samuel Palmisano think this has to do with IBM?Rich don't make a bastard.

Zhang Bowen smiled and said: "It is true that it is not the final investment. In the future, we will continue to invest in building data centers. Not surprisingly, at least five to ten years or even longer, with the same investment scale every year."

Oh my God!!

When Samuel Palmisano heard this, his whole body was dull.

Ten years of continuous investment, doesn't it mean that Bluestar Technology Group intends to invest here. If IBM can become its partner, it can earn more than 30 billion US dollars from this company?

At this moment, Samuel Palmisano was watching Zhang Bowen, who was smiling. The CEO of IBM was pounding in his heart at this moment, but he was still very calm on the surface.

"Are you sure this is really not a joke?"

Samuel Palmisano couldn't help but ask again, wanting to confirm again.

"It's true that we can sign a strategic agreement with a liquidated damages of 3 billion US dollars." Zhang Bowen responded very positively once again. When he came to talk with someone at IBM, Luo Sheng explained that he boldly signed with the other party. Bluestar Technology is not afraid. On the contrary, after five to ten years, the North American authorities will thank God for not intervening.

At that time, it was IBM that defaulted.

sign!

Must sign!

At this moment, Samuel Palmisano roared inwardly, this company is too crazy to refuse, Madefak.

The emergence of large-scale data centers undoubtedly gave IBM an opportunity. With such demands as Bluestar Technology, Samuel Palmisano really wanted to supply Luo Sheng to the rhythm.

However, it is not unreasonable for Bluestar Technology Group to disclose some important strategic layouts to the other party. Naturally, it is to make IBM pay more attention to and care about this cooperation. Bluestar Technology is also easy to discuss other conditions.

After a while, Zhang Bowen said: “This is a super-large cooperation project. IBM must cooperate with the Bluestar Technology Group. Once the contract is signed, the two parties will start on the university campus in North America in one month. Including Berkeley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, Harvard University, Cambridge University, Oxford University, University of Göttingen, etc., to promote cloud computing services."

As for universities and colleges in the mainland, IBM does not need to participate.

Zhang Bowen added: "The purpose of this is that we hope to reduce the cost of distributed computing in academic research. We can provide relevant software and hardware equipment and technical support for these universities, including a large number of personal computers, support including Linux, Xen With open source platforms such as Hadoop and Hadoop, students can develop various large-scale computing-based research projects through the Internet, and we can provide corresponding funding."

Zhang Bowen added: "Our regional influence is relatively weak, and Bluestar Technology has no basis in North America. As a long-term strategic partner, IBM has to settle some obstacles in the market."

In the end, Samuel Palmisano nodded without hesitation, and responded: "No problem, no problem, and it should be the case. After all, your company can develop smoothly before IBM can reap more orders and profits. Then... …Let’s talk about the specific signing."

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Zhang Bowen stayed in IBM for three days. Even though the contract was fully prepared when it came, he must be cautious when signing it.

This is true for Bluestar Technology, and it is also true for IBM.

After all, this one is not a small number.

If something goes wrong, either side will be hurt.

However, Bluestar Technology is not vegetarian after all, and its legal team has a strong lineup.

In the end, this strategic cooperation agreement was successfully signed on April 6, and IBM held a temporary media conference on the next day to officially disclose part of the content of this cooperation to the outside world.

There was no disclosure on the specific cooperation, mainly the contract related to the first batch of purchase orders of Bluestar Technology Group.

Valued at US$3.052 billion and purchased 2.07 million servers.

Both Zhang Bowen and IBM head Samuel Palmisano attended the conference.

...

On the afternoon of April 8, the headquarters of the Cote d'Azur company.

"You were already in the limelight in March, and you robbed the headlines of the world as soon as you entered April." Qin Weimu came to Luo Sheng's office, and by the way brought a paper newspaper, which was still on the other's desk.

This is a financial news report. Luo Sheng picked it up and glanced at it. The front page headline was related to Bluestar Technology Group.

[Luo Sheng proposed the concept of "cloud computing"?Bluestar Technology Group officially announced that it has reached a strategic cooperation with IBM, and officially signed a server contract worth US$3.052 billion to build a large data center. This is the first major move of Bluestar Technology since its IPO.

[But the market is not optimistic. Once the news was disclosed, Bluestar Technology's stock fell as soon as it was announced. It plunged 3.59% that day, and $2.8 billion was evaporated, equivalent to 22.5 billion.On April 7, Bluestar Technology closed with a total market value of US$75 billion, and was again overtaken by Apple, which has a market value of US$75.3 billion.

Luo Sheng looked at the newspaper for a while and threw aside the newspaper. He looked at Qin Weimu and said, "Has the offshore trust fund been settled?"

Qin Weimu nodded: "Well, there are currently US$1.032 billion that has been transferred to the offshore fund. It is all cash flow, and it is currently cash flow. I am preparing to buy Bluestar Technology stocks."

Hearing this, Luo Sheng snapped his fingers and said immediately: "Don't worry, let the stock fall for a while, then buy it again."

Qin Weimu was stunned when he heard it, and Luo Sheng muttered to himself: "It's on the 16th, yes, I started buying on the 16th. I bought them all. The report for the first quarter has already been published and has not yet been announced. It will be officially disclosed on the 17th or 18th, and it may be a different sight by then."

Qin Weimu nodded after hearing this: "Okay, I see."

Luo Sheng didn't worry about the company's market value fluctuations at all. On the contrary, it was a good thing. Taking advantage of this downward trend, he could buy more.

What is the situation of the company, and who else knows better than his head?

Qin Weimu went to deal with the affairs, Luo Sheng picked up the newspaper again and took a look at the follow-up content. The head of IBM is a strong supporter of cloud computing and praised Bluestar Technology for its vision of building a data center. thing.

When Luo Sheng saw this paragraph in the article, he didn't believe in the nonsense of Samuel Palmisano.

This is definitely not his true thoughts at the time, or even against his intentions. It's just that such a large order contract, as a partner, is also related to IBM's profits. It naturally jumped out to promote big data and cloud computing services for the Bluestar Technology platform. the concept of.

In fact, IBM itself is still a bit confused. Cloud computing is definitely feasible, but if it takes a long, long time to achieve, in other words, it doesn’t have realistic conditions. As a company, you must consider Reality.

But Samuel Palmisano doesn’t care about this, just let the people inside to discuss the topic, and talk about it in the outside world, and let’s talk about the money in front of you. This is a tangible profit. It.

As for being beaten in the face at the end, it is a fact that IBM made a lot of money anyway.

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