Chapter 172 [Strategic Cooperation]
Zhang Bowen complained in his heart, and after a moment, Samuel Parmesano looked at the other party and asked: "Your company is planning to make great efforts in the cloud... oh yes, this should not be the final investment scale, right?"
It’s strange to say that Parmesano is a little confused. Why do Luo Sheng and Jeff Bezos both favor cloud computing so much?
Amazon also said that Bluestar Technology has played so big since it started, and it is obvious that it is extremely firm to believe that this concept, which has been born for nearly 20 years, has great potential.
The problem is, the concept from more than 20 years ago is still like that, and there is really a lot of potential?
If it is still like a bird in twenty years, Blue Star Technology Group will probably cry to death.
It is crazy to invest so much in an unknown field.
However, Samuel Parmesano thinks what does this have to do with ibm? He doesn’t make a bastard if he has money.
Zhang Bowen smiled and said, "To be honest, it is not the final investment. In the future, we will continue to invest in building data centers. If nothing unexpected happens, at least within five to ten years or even longer. On average, the same investment scale will be required every year."
Oh My God!!
Samuel Parmesano was stunned when he heard this.
With ten years of continuous investment, doesn’t that 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 Parmesano stared at Zhang Bowen, who was smiling. The CIO of the ibm company was thumping in his heart at this moment, but he was still very calm on the surface.
"Are you sure this is really no joke?"
Samuel Parmesano couldn't help asking again and wanted to confirm again.
"It's true that we can sign a strategic agreement with a penalty of 3 billion US dollars." Zhang Bowen responded with great affirmation. When he came to talk to the ibm, Luo Sheng explained that he would sign with the other party boldly. Blue Star Technology is not afraid. On the contrary, after five to ten years, the North American authorities will not interfere.
At that time, it was ibm that breached the contract.
sign!
Must sign!
At this moment, Samuel Parmesano yelled in his heart, the company was too crazy to refuse, Madfak.
The emergence of large data centers undoubtedly gave ibm the opportunity. Samuel Parmesano really wanted to provide Luo Sheng with the rhythm of demand for Blue Star Technology.
However, Bluestar Technology Group revealed some major strategic layouts to the other party, which was not for no reason. Naturally, it was to make ibm pay more attention to and care about this cooperation, and Bluestar Technology could also discuss other conditions.
After a while, Zhang Bowen said: "This is a super-large cooperation project. ibm must cooperate with the relevant cooperation matters of Bluestar Technology Group. Once this contract is signed, the two parties will start to promote cloud computing services in one month, including Berkeley, MIT, Stanford University, Harvard University, Cambridge University, Oxford University, University of Göttingen, etc.."
As for mainland universities, there is no need for ibm company to participate.
Zhang Bowen added: "The purpose of doing 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 to these universities, including a large number of personal computers, supporting open source platforms such as Linux, xen, and hadoop. Students can develop various research programs based on large-scale computing through the network, and we can provide corresponding funding."
Zhang Bowen added: "Our regional influence is relatively weak, and Bluestar Technology does not have much basis in North America. As a long-term strategic partner, ibm will come forward to settle some market obstacles."
At the end, Samuel Parmesano nodded without hesitation and responded: "No problem, no problem, it should be the case. After all, your company can only generate more orders and profits by ibm. So... let's talk about the specific signing of the contract."
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Zhang Bowen stayed at ibm for three days. Even though the contract was fully prepared when it came, he had to be very cautious when signing it.
This is true for Bluestar Technology and ibm.
After all, this one is not a small number.
If something goes wrong, either side will get hurt.
However, Bluestar Technology is not a vegetarian, and its legal team is strong.
Finally, the strategic cooperation agreement was successfully signed on April 6. ibm held a temporary media conference every day and officially disclosed to the outside world some of the contents of this cooperation.
The specific cooperation was not disclosed, mainly because of the disclosure of contract matters related to the first batch of purchase orders of Bluestar Technology Group.
Valued at US$3.052 billion, 2.07 million sets of servers were purchased.
Zhang Bowen and ibm company leader Samuel Parmesano both attended the press conference.
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On the afternoon of April 8, the headquarters of the Costa del Azure Company.
"You have already made a big splash in March and just entered April, you have snatched the world's headlines." Qin Weimu came to Luo Sheng's office and brought a paper newspaper that was still on the other party's desk.
This is a financial news report. Luo Sheng picked it up and glanced at it. The front page headlines were related news from Blue Star Technology Group.
[Luo Sheng proposed the concept of "cloud computing"? Bluestar Technology Group officially announced that it had 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 since Bluestar Technology IPO.]
[But the market is not optimistic. Once the news was disclosed, Blue Star Technology's stock fell, falling 3.59% on the same day, and US$2.8 billion evaporated, equivalent to RMB 22.5 billion. On April 7, Blue Star Technology closed with a total market value of US$75 billion, and was once 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 the newspaper aside, looked at Qin Weimu and said, "Have the offshore trust fund been completed?"
Qin Weimu nodded: "Well, US$1.032 billion has been transferred to the offshore fund, all of which are cash flows, and currently all are cash flows, and are preparing to buy Blue Star Technology stocks."
Hearing this, Luo Sheng snapped his fingers and immediately said, "Don't be anxious, let the stock fall for a while, and then buy it."
Qin Weimu was stunned when he heard this, and Luo Sheng murmured and thought, "Just on... on the 16th, yes, I started buying on the 16th and bought all of them. The report for the first quarter of this year has been released and has not been announced yet. It will be officially disclosed on the 17th or 18th, and it may be another landscape at that time."
Upon hearing this, Qin Weimu nodded: "Okay, I understand."
Luo Sheng was not worried about the fluctuations in the company's market value. Instead, it was a good thing. He could buy more while taking advantage of this decline.
What is the situation in the company? Who else can know better than the head of him?
Qin Weimu went to handle the matter, and Luo Sheng picked up the newspaper and looked at the follow-up content. The head of ibm company supported cloud computing and praised Bluestar Technology for its visionary purpose in building a data center.
When Luo Sheng saw this passage in the article, he did not believe the lies of the old man Samuel Parmesano.
This is definitely not his true thoughts at that time, or even against his will. It’s just that such a large order contract, as a partner, also concerns ibm’s profits, so he naturally jumped out to promote the concept of big data and cloud computing services for Bluestar Technology.
In fact, ibm is still a little confused. Cloud computing is definitely feasible, but if it takes a long time to realize it, in other words, it does not meet the actual conditions. As a company, it needs to consider the actual situation.
But Samuel Parmesano didn't care about this and just let the insider do the topic while discussing it. He would brag first and then talk about it. He would make money in front of him. This is a real and visible profit.
As for the end of being slapped in the face, just slapped in the face. Anyway, it is a fact that ibm makes a lot of money.
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Chapter completed!