Bill Gates proposed a plan to bundle with IBM, resulting in the status of Today's Microsoft's global software overlord. Today, the bundle of software and hardware is a numerous enterprise imitation and application, but there is no achievement of Microsoft, especially in the early days of Linux development, almost all Linux operating system manufacturers regard the bundled sales model as a life-saving straw. However, the time has long been different from the DOS era. Even if the Linux manufacturers are not expected under the price of several times, recently, even if some hardware companies that give up the Microsoft high-end operating system even in order to pursue low prices, some hardware companies also returned to bundled DOS systems. . Linux is once again cruelly squeezed in the survival space in the bundled sales.
What is going on?
On October 14, 2004, this year's head is very hard, Linux main factory surfing platform (China) Software Technology Co., Ltd. in Beijing and PC and server first-line manufacturers Tsinghua Tongfang stocks in Beijing Signed a comprehensive strategic cooperation agreement, trying to be China Linux. Software and hardware coordinated development have found a new development path.
At cooperation, surf platform has seriously analyzed the current Linux operation platform and hardware manufacturers. The surfing platform believes that the main reason for the cooperation of Linux and hardware to the dead alley is not that the hardware company is much, but is too shallow in the cooperation depth. The two sides are more satisfied with simple bundling sales in PC or servers, which seems to have reached the final cooperation of both parties. However, if you look at the user's point of view, what kind of value can be implemented with a machine with a Linux operating system? Today's information development, users understand that they need to buy the application solution, not a pure technical solution. Therefore, only find a cooperative model, bringing the biggest benefits to the user, achieving the greatest value, bringing the greatest convenience to the truly possible development path. Therefore, the surfing platform chose Tsinghua Tongfang, Tsinghua Tongfang has a popular computer hardware product and rich, complete product line, there are thousands of mature, loyal, and efficient marketing networks throughout the country; Similarly, Tsinghua Tongfang also chosen surfing platforms, surfing platforms are the largest Linux application providers for the Chinese government and industry. In the Linux operating system (server, desktop, embedded) has strong professional knowledge accumulation, rich professional development experience, and many successful practical applications have significant advantages.
Surfing platforms and Tsinghua Tongfang boldly adopted in-depth, comprehensive strategic partner models, and the cooperation between the two sides will involve commercial information sharing, technology research and development cooperation, market open guidance, product bundle promotion, marketing channel Unicom, technical support, strategic development collaboration, etc. Seven aspects. It is also agreed in the two parties, in-depth cooperation in the future, and has a good cooperation in the future and has a good expected education informatization products and solutions, from the concept, pre-research, product development and promotion, etc., the market and technology of both parties. Advantages, common to first.
Industry people have given a high evaluation for both partners: It can be seen that the surfing platform and Tsinghua Tongfang's greatest the same thing is the strong position in education and government market. The two companies take in-depth cooperation, together with more focuses and more complete solutions for the industry market, and the domestic Linux industry is the first, even in the entire IT industry, cooperation from user dimension is not More. The cooperation is denoted by this cooperation, but due to cooperation models, there is no precedent in Linux industry, and its future development is still waiting to be seen.
From:
Northern Network
