In mid-June, Fang Zheng Electronics and Scholar Co., Ltd. released their respective intelligent document strategies. Interestingly, both parties claim that their smart documents have been brewing for a long time. They are the leaders of the other party to followers, unknown users like In the cloud, it is unclear. It seems that this concept of smart documents is coming out overnight. Domestic users have not figured out how the smart documentation is, it seems that the era of intelligent documents has arrived, quite a bit unpredictable.
In fact, the incident, from the trend of global software development, the emergence of intelligent documents is not open to user needs and the development of technology, there is a gradually evolved process, which can be said to be water to the stream. Domestic reasoning is not preheated from the sky, mainly because domestic manufacturers lack the accumulation, take more ways to borrow foreign fruits and technologies, some are not equal to mature software, first make a similarly not-free product, first launch the concept, Ask to occupy the market, some are even directly to obtain foreign technology and products in a variety of ways, and put on their own housings and say it is their own technology. If it is purely operated from the market, it is not very good, but from the long run from the domestic software industry, this is a little short.
Smart document to the dragon
On the development of the software industry, there have been two trajectories that have been parallel, one is based on document-centered strategies. We are well known to Microsoft, Adobe, Jinshan, Scholars and Fang Zheng Electronics are representative manufacturers at home and abroad. , Microsoft's Office, Jinshan's WPS, Adobe's PDF, Subsheng's SEP and electronic literature, and Fang Zheng Electronics CEB are specific products that adhering to this route. Another trajectory is to focus on data-centric strategies, like Oracle and a large number of system developers at home and abroad, such as a large number of ERP vendors represented by users and Kingdee in China.
The markets facing these two routes are huge. Focus on the document route, Microsoft, Adobe has become the world's largest and second largest table-end software developers. The data-centric strategy not only creates a giant such as Oracle, but also supports a considerable amount of system developer. These two routes are basically parallel to the development of river water without smashing well. This is not because of fear of the strength in another field, in fact, both parties are not in the same party, especially the leaders of the document route, Because users are more willing to pay for the data, they do everything possible to enter the territory of the opponent with data as the core, such as Microsoft, with the SQL Server product with Oracle competition. The problem is that the manufacturer of documents is, after all, for the data route, it is often impossible to achieve satisfactory results in the flyer market, with Microsoft's strength, SQL Server has worked hard, and it is a clear example. The document route vendors have been looking for a technology that allows documents and data to combine, so they can enter the data market in the dominance of the document.
The emergence of XML technology has finally brought opportunities to the manufacturer of document routes, which allows documents and data to communicate with each other, which is what many manufacturers dream of. The so-called intelligent document is inherently an XML document, so several famous manufacturers have insufficient investment in smart documents. Microsoft Push InfoPath is actually a smart document, and Adobe spends $ 70 million in the previous year to acquire another smart document developer in North America. This year, this year, the previous EPAPER product line is changed to intelligent document, which indicates the importance of smart documents. You can imagine that there will be more companies will join this battlefield.
China's intelligent documentation: Suddenly, the spring breeze is coming?
From the manufacturer of domestic documents, their days have no foreign counterparts, but they cannot obtain enough benefits, because China's users have not yet paying the customs of desktop software, Microsoft can occupy the global software industry The status, Adobe can also be called a ride, but in China, Microsoft Office can't make money, Adobe's PDF does not make money, it will not use Jinshan's WPS and other vendors. The performance itself from Scholar International and Fang Zheng Electronics is not yielded from documentation, but because its products have solved special needs, their book students solve the security needs of documents, and Founder electronically solves this problem with laser. Since the product is for special needs, the market space is limited, so Fang Zheng and Scholar have launched more common documentation products - Subsheng's SEP and Fang Zheng's CEB. But the above problem is completely revealed, and your product's target market is significantly expanded, but few people are willing to pay for you. Therefore, domestic document vendors faced the problems that have been facing foreign counterparts: how to cut into the data field, make documents and data combine to pay for users. This is inevitably embarrassed to the road of intelligent documents, in a sense, in China, the demand for smart documents is more urgent.
I believe that Fang Zi Electronics and Scholar have nothing to look at when I develop smart documents in Microsoft and Adobe. I have been pondering how I can have my own intelligent documentation. However, research and development intelligent documents do really need quite investment and technical level, which is not easy for Microsoft and Adobe, not to mention the scholars and Fang Zheng.
But the problem is always to be solved, and it is indeed solved. We will see such an interesting result: foreign intelligent documents are continuous development, from the concept of launching products to promote and competition, experienced for a long time. However, in the country, this concept has been rarely raised. Fangzheng Electronics and Scholar International have launched a self-proclaimed smart document product. In the surprise, I can't help but want to ask, this big brief development What is the real cause of the back?
Copy, the topic of it is difficult to teeth
In fact, the problem is not complicated. It is necessary to have its own intelligent document products in a short time. The simplest way is COPY, directly referring to foreign intelligent document products, and makes imitation, many of this truth understand. Copy itself is a neutral word, no diarrhea is not arrogant, the interface and operation of the PS, which is more like office, we can understand that it is to better serve the user, let the users use their own habits. But there are many ways of COPY, and some ways are probably not moved to the countertop.
Software is not available for other products, you can imitate other manufacturers' product functions and interfaces, but you cannot easily get the same core technology as each other. A simple and straightforward approach is of course in accordance with the function of competitive products, but the core technology of intelligent documents is quite difficult. At present, there are only a few foreign well-known manufacturers such as Microsoft and Adobe, and it is really difficult for domestic manufacturers. point.
The increasingly fierce market competition is limited to the manufacturer. If the autonomous development cycle is naturally not considered. The manufacturers have tried to make a symbolic to make a similarly not a product, launching this concept, and releases that they already have such technologies, first occupying the market, then slowly improve the product. Since the intelligent document has just been released in China, the product itself cannot be meticulously understand, but there is still a big difference from the performance of the product and Fang Zheng. Founder Electronics Intelligent Document is "You click on a word in a document. When you open other documents, you can directly skip some of these keywords", contrast Microsoft and Adobe definitions, the same party is This statement is far from this statement, and Founder can say that this intelligent document is non-expert documentation. This will easily trigger guess, will not be the current product of Fang Zheng Electronics, but in order to seize the domestic market, you can only dedup the existing thing on a smart document, no matter what, make a drink and say it again? The book is another statement for intelligent documents: "It is an XML document that includes highly structured XML information, program, and executable action in addition to all characteristics of paper. This statement is almost no different from the international intelligent document leadership manufacturer. At the press conference, the book has indeed demonstrated the related products and functions. But the problem still exists, why is the book that has a complete software function and core technology in such a short period of time? After all, the scholar is not a big company in China, not to mention the famous foreign companies.
In the case of the mysterious, the company has several "technicians who have worked for many years" in the famous company's headquarters in foreign countries. " The answer may be here, and some people have doubt whether they have directly used certain means to get abroad. Of course, it is also possible that the scholar uses the open application of foreign countries, then packs its own shell, so they have a precedent in the operation of the CEB product. According to the lover, it is directly using the kernel of the PDF. It became a domestic software, so the conversion of CEBs and PDFs in some documents will appear exactly the same mistake, and it is still afraid to reveal the bottom of the CEB. However, in the field of intelligent documents, it is a key technology that has a big impact on the future, and has not heard of which company has a group of open technology. More importantly, if it is only using foreign open technology, that new How to explain the foreign technicians of the franchise students?
COPY is not a long-term gauge
In any case, intelligent documentation is just a miniature of domestic software industry, and COPY is already open secret. In order to quickly catch up with the advanced level of foreign countries, Copy is also a valid approach, but it is not a long history. Fang Zheng Electronics and Subsonal International can achieve today's success. The key is to have its own unique core technology. If you give up this success in order to grow the market, the result is very worrying, and the recent troubles of Lenovo should be sufficient. Domestic counterparts bring warnings.
For domestic vendors who want to occupy a global software industry, the vowed emotional arms are not as important as practicing. The user is getting more mature, the resolution is getting stronger, only by the fry a concept, no corresponding technical and product is supported, and the risk is very.
From another perspective, even COPY should also be on earth, if the method is too straightforward, in the future, the controversy about intellectual property is triggered, like Huawei's example, it will cause the company to fall into unnecessary troubles, it is possible to get lost.
