The California High-speed Railway is a large project costing more than $30 billion. Even if one-third of the funds are available, walking around Bank of America will be enough to make Bank of America, which is deeply troubled by bad loans, breathe a lot.

"Everyone, I'll say that Don can bring us the strongest good news." Alden Clawson looked around with a laugh.

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“Dang has always been our best and most important customer.”

"If Tang can become our partner, then this difficulty is not a problem at all, and there is no need to sell assets on a large scale."

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"Thank you for your respect." Amid the compliments, Tang Huan smiled and waved his hand.

Can bankers take the sweet words seriously?

Besides, the halo of the richest man in the United States is already dazzling enough. Tang Huan does not want to exaggerate the sensitive nerves of traditional tyrants outside the IT industry.

Therefore, the abacus of Bank of America and other people is still a bit far from what Tang Huan thinks.

"I have just stated the principles of this cooperation." Tang Huan continued: "Based on this consideration, Renke should be more suitable for me than me personally, and Louis Gowsner is the best candidate to join the board of directors."

The conference room was completely quiet, and Bank of America began to think about Tang Huan’s cooperation plan to launch an agent.

"Renke is an IT application supplier with great achievements in the field of enterprise management. It has successfully provided solutions for nearly a thousand companies. If you become partners with Bank of America, you will undoubtedly win the number of results." Tang Huan added slowly.

"There is no difference in nature whether it is Renke or Tang. Everyone is in the California system, right?" Alden Clawson took the lead in expressing his opinion.

"It's true." The others began to echo.

Amid the discussion, Louis Gowsner, who had a serious face, became even more straighter. He didn't expect that after he frustrated from American Express to the IT field, he returned to his old financial business so quickly. It seems that the boss is right, there are infinite possibilities in the future!

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There was a hostile acquisition by the First Intercontinental Bank outside, and Bank of America was at a time of life and death. These people who were concerned about their vital interests naturally did not dare to slack off at all, and the meeting was held until night.

In this way, Bank of America was able to hold a press conference as fast as possible.

The media has long been eyeing Bank of America's every move. After receiving the notice, they immediately flocked to see how it intends to get rid of its current predicament.

To people's surprise, Bank of America CEO Alden Clawson first introduced Louis Gowsner, who was sitting next to him before announcing the major matters.

The heavyweight executives under Tang Huan were not unknown people, and the reporters could recognize them at a glance. They couldn't help but wonder, what was the chairman of the board of directors of Renke Company sitting here?

Alden Clawson quickly gave the answer, "What I want to tell you is that Bank of America will hold shares with Renke and become strategic partners; while Mr. Louis Gowsner will join the Board of Directors of Bank of America."

Seeing everyone in the audience surprised, whispering and whispering, Alden Clawson smiled proudly, and this was the effect he wanted.

Next, the CEO of Bank of America, who has just taken office, began to announce the second news: "In the next few years, Bank of America will carry out a series of reforms, including administration, and vigorously adopt the latest advanced technologies to reduce operating costs while providing the best services to customers. Regarding this plan, please introduce Mr. Gousner to everyone."

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This press conference was almost Alden Clawson's policy speech, and there was no questioning session, let alone how to counter the malicious acquisition of the First Intercontinental Bank.

However, when these reporters left the press conference in a daze, they got the latest news. Bank of America had already launched a counter-attack. As soon as the New York Stock Exchange opened, it began to repurchase its own stocks on a large scale. The momentum was extraordinary and it obviously received support from the Austrians and its confidence increased.

Previously, Bank of America's stock price fell to $8 at a low of $8, which made InterContinental Bank covetously. After it launched a malicious acquisition, Bank of America's stock price was still sluggish. However, after Bank of America's funds entered the stock market with great fanfare, it finally gave the stock price a booster and began to rebound slowly under the competition between the two sides.

In fact, the malicious acquisition of Bank of America by the First InterContinental Bank is a very gambler. You should know that Bank of America has a large plate, and the price will easily increase, which will put obvious cost pressure on the acquirer.

That night, interpretations of the news disclosed at the Bank of America's press conference were also released.

Almost all the calibers are: Bank of America is really lucky and found a cash cow full of milk. Renke, who just successfully went public this year, is holding a lot of cash in his hand.

Of course, this is a very superficial analysis result.

The deeper significance is that through this strategic cooperation, Renke, a supplier of commercial applications, enterprise resource planning solutions and independent software, the breadth and depth of its product coverage is very likely to make a leap; while Bank of America can use Renke's line to contact the companies it serves from another angle, and further take advantage of Tang Huan and the California high-speed rail project to build to open up a vibrant business field for itself.

In this case, the first Intercontinental Bank, which was originally a risky one, may return in a failure.

As expected, as the market digested the positive news, the stock price of Bank of America further rebounded, and the acquisition of InterContinental Bank became increasingly difficult. It seemed that it was very close to the target, but it was just unreachable, and it could only announce the abandonment of the plan.

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This result was expected by Tang Huan. After all, Bank of America was just a serious illness, and its physical foundation was still quite thick.

Seeing that the commentary circle did not praise him, Tang Huan felt relieved to stop paying attention and continued to read the report from Yongtong Electronics.

The company that operates telecommunications equipment was listed on Nasdaq in early October. With technologies such as adsl, cable modem, etc., it has become a very popular newcomer in the telecommunications equipment industry with many powerful powers.

For this reason, some people also linked Yongtong Electronics' ipo to "Forbes US 400 Rich List" - if the listing time is further proposed so that it can be counted, the richest man's net worth of $36.6 billion will definitely grow a little further.

However, Yongtong Electronics cannot be used with Renkobe, which develops software services. It is similar to Fangyuan Computer Company. During the operation process, it squeezes funds, so the money from the IPO circle cannot be moved randomly.

"The competition in this field has not really begun." Tang Huangang sighed, and Zhou Mi called from Xiangjiang and said: "HSBC secretly made bad things and sent someone to propose to the Hong Kong government to take back the franchise of Xiangjiang Telecom, release the license, and let more people share this cake."

The term of the local local phone franchise for Xiangjiang Telecom is 1995, and the term of the long-distance phone franchise will have to wait until the beginning of the next century. The time is absolutely not short. No one can give up the opportunity to exclusively enjoy this delicious cake, and Tang Huan is naturally no exception.

"This old guy Chen Bi is really good at picking the key points." Tang Huan sneered, "It just so happened that I have prepared some pastries for HSBC, so let's start tearing."

"In recent years, Xiangjiang Telecom has spared no effort in infrastructure construction and other aspects to forcibly recover the losses caused by the franchise. Who will pay for it?"

"Taking this opportunity, I'll show you the account book and let everyone see what practical things Xiangjiang Telecom has done after it falls into our hands."

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After giving this tit-for-tat instruction, Tang Huan didn't care about continuing to pay attention. Because ibm's new generation personal computer personal system/2, that is, ps/2, has been disclosed more and more news, and the momentum is getting stronger and stronger. It is clearly about to be released, and he must hold a meeting immediately and be ready for it.

The strength of the Blue Giant is undoubtedly, not to mention that it also has the spirit of doing its best to fight back.

Judging from the current information, the biggest feature of ps/2 is that it summarizes the gains and losses of all previous ibm-pc series, and draws on the success of Fangyuan Personal Computer, and conducts a thorough and brand-new design from a higher and wider global perspective, which is very similar to the high-level view of Tang Huan when he first launched Fangyuan Personal Computer.

The strict authorization of ps/2 supports two old microprocessors, namely Intel8086 and Intel80286, which can replace the previous ibm-pc, ibm-pc/xt, ibm-pc/at and other products, and it is necessary to kill all current ibm-pc-compatible machine manufacturers. This can be seen from the fact that more than a dozen product models have been announced in this direction alone.

Of course, Intel's latest generation of microprocessor Intel80386 will not forget that ips/2 has a model that uses this CPU. Although compared with Fangyuan personal computers, ibm-pc-compatible competitors are late, it is also more mature.

Just on the eve of the opening of the Las Vegas Dex this fall, Cupertino in Silicon Valley suddenly became lively, with luxury cars gathering in the parking lot of Zheru's US headquarters, and occasionally helicopters take off and land.

Local residents, such as Apple and interested media people, realized after seeing this grand occasion that Tang Huan was sown like dandelion seeds, and was summoned to gather from Mountain View City, Redwood City and other places to Cupertino to hold a meeting of the entire group.

That's the truth, hundreds of attendees sat in the huge Cupertino Center conference room, watching the slideshow while listening to the current market situation, especially the main opponents

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"Ibm not only launched a series of new products, but also established a new personal computer standard. The microelarchitecture-microchannel architecture adopted by ps/2 is the most powerful proof."

"This is a brand new and powerful system bus architecture, and the design uses some technologies of mainframes such as system/360. Therefore, unlike the previous free models of ibm-pc, ibm-pc/xt, ibm-pc/at, any company that wants to use it will need to pay an authorization fee."

"The operating system that supports ps/2 is jointly developed by ibm and Microsoft. Simply put, in addition to not having graphical user interface functions, it supports all the most advanced mainstream functions such as protection mode, multitasking, etc., which will replace the pc-dos, which Microsoft developed for ibm-pc, that is, ms-dos."

"We need to pay special attention to that with the launch of ps/2, ibm also introduced an ambitious plan called systemsapplicationarchitecture - the system application architecture, namely saa."

"As we all know, we have launched a series of applicatiramming interfaces in the fields of underlying system calls, network communications, video acceleration, etc. - the application program interface is API. It has received excellent response and is very popular, and has won the support and support of a large number of third-party manufacturers, occupying more market share for our products. It has played an important role."

"IBM's saa, similar to our API, will provide a mainframe interface on the personal computer platform. This does not mean much to fully personal computers, but it is different for commercial computers. We know that ibm still dominates the mainframe market now."

"One of the mainframe launched by ibm in the 1960s - system/360, is so successful because all hardware platforms have consistent software interfaces."

"Now, ibm intends to copy this successful experience through saa, so that all products from mainframes to personal computers have a unified interface."

"It can be said that we have implemented the idea of ​​ibm to a certain extent in advance. But don't forget that our Fangyuan personal computer, Fangyuan workstation, Fangyuan server, and Fangyuan supercomputer are brand new products from the 1980s. At the beginning of the design, we took into account the needs of the same interface, leaving space."

"After enjoying the huge profits brought by mainframes for decades, ibm has also invisibly carried a heavy burden. It is almost impossible for saa to integrate all old-fashioned products and latest products into a unified architecture, just like pursuing 100% perfection."

“However, as long as Saa achieves most of its goals, its threat is great enough.”

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When the screen of the slide dimmed, Tang Huan opened the microphone in front of him and slowly spoke: "You should feel it, the elephant is really angry."

Amid the laughter, Tang Huan's face became more and more serious, "You should be able to imagine how cruel the market competition situation will be. This will be the ultimate battle for personal computer standards, and the results will be drawn within the next 18 months."
Chapter completed!