In the past, Chen Dong would never allow these technical personnel to attend such meetings collectively in order not to take up their working time or affect their work progress.
Usually, we invite Engineer Chen from the engineering department to come over and have him briefly mention the requirements and direction of software development, and that's about it.
But now, in order to improve efficiency, he has to concentrate the entire engineering and technical departments here.
"Everyone, please join this meeting to discuss the future upgrades and development direction of ICQ."
"As everyone knows, QQ has been launched in China and has become a new favorite in the Chinese internet market. The market response has been excellent. I'm worried that QQ is too ambitious. They not only want to dominate the Chinese market, but also want to dominate the European and American markets."
They had heard about this matter when they were in the engineering department, but these engineers had never paid much attention to products from the China region.
After all, Europe and the United States impose technological blockades on China. Moreover, China lags far behind Europe and the United States. It is only because they have pioneering companies that have developed network communication software that it is likely a copy of European and American products.
Technically, they are still confident.
But now that the big boss is bringing up this company specifically for discussion, things are not so simple.
“Boss, the Chinese market has never been our primary market,” the product architect said.
Chen Dong looked at him with a cold expression, "Even if the Huaxia region isn't our market, we can't just hand over such a large market to others like this."
After the development and informatization of the Huaxia region's market, it's not even a small piece of cake in their eyes.
Everyone thought the big boss was trying to compete with young tech companies, which was a bit unfair, but Chen Dong was thinking that he couldn't hand over the market to the Freemasons.
"Our current products are not perfect yet, and everyone must hurry up and upgrade them."
Upon hearing this, Engineer Chen realized that Longteng had already come to regard QQ as a competitor.
He asked, "If we want to treat QQ as a hypothetical enemy, then we must first familiarize ourselves with QQ's functions and target audience."
"Actually, after QQ was launched, I downloaded it and started to study it. I found that their development direction was almost exactly the same as our planned development direction."
The product architect looked at him in surprise, "That's impossible! Our ICQ development direction is still in the planning stage, they couldn't possibly know that."
Chen Dong lowered his head in frustration and said, "Last time I went to Tencent, in order to give their boss Ma more leverage in the negotiations, I mentioned a few things about the future product development direction of ICQ."
"Most of the new features added to QQ were proposed by me."
As soon as he finished speaking, everyone's expressions became very complicated.
"Fortunately, although QQ's general direction is very similar to our development direction, there are still many differences in concepts in the details," Chen Dong tried to salvage the situation.
This product embodies the hard work of everyone in Longteng Company's engineering and technology departments. They were all somewhat dissatisfied when the big boss casually mentioned that he had leaked the company's software development plan.
However, in front of the big boss, although everyone had their grievances, they did not vent them.
“That’s the current situation. I think QQ’s ambitions now extend beyond the Chinese market, so we need to plan ahead as soon as possible.” Chen Dong glanced at everyone in the conference room and then said, “Everyone, please share your thoughts.”
“Currently, our development direction has been taken over by QQ. If we continue to develop according to the original plan, after the product is launched, netizens will definitely question whether we have copied and imitated QQ products.”
"These kinds of things are a matter of each side having its own version of the truth, and we have no evidence to prove that this is the direction we plan to develop, right?" the product architect complained, feeling aggrieved.
In fact, the most aggrieved party in this matter is the product architect, because he was the one who determined the general direction of software development.
He suffered the biggest loss because the development direction was leaked, and he will have to redetermine the development direction in the future.
"However, I know that now is not the time to argue about these things."
The architect sighed, and said without holding a grudge, "What we need to do now is to concentrate all our resources as soon as possible, conduct market research, determine a new development direction as soon as possible, and speed up our upgrade and transformation process."
"I heard that Tencent has received a large investment, which is far less than what ICQ has invested in this area."
Mr. Chen added, "If the two sides are to compete in the market for social networks in the East and West in the future, I think they are indeed the most competitive products in the world right now."
"Alright, I won't say any more. Market research, data collection, and get the results to the company headquarters as soon as possible," Chen Dong instructed.
“Currently, this project is under development and we need to meet the deadline, so we need a project manager,” Chen Dong said to Chris. “Chris, I hereby appoint you as the project manager for this ICQ product upgrade and transformation.”
Chris was flattered and his eyes widened in surprise. Chen Dong then said, "Chris will be fully responsible for the product upgrades and optimizations of ICQ from now on."
"The company's engineering department, technical department, project department, and marketing department must fully cooperate."
"In addition, ICQ's market research and sample data, including product feedback, were collected, organized, and then handed over directly to Chris."
The development of the ICQ project is the top priority of all of Longteng's current projects, and Chen Dong's appointment of Chris as the project manager shows that he has great trust in him.
"You can all leave now. Next, we need to determine the product development direction. The technical staff and engineers can take a couple of days off and get some rest when they get back."
Chen Dong smiled casually, "From now on, you may not have time to rest."
The business world is like a battlefield, and although they work behind the scenes, they are the group of people who feel the atmosphere of the battlefield the most.
"Chris, you stay."
After everyone left, Chen Dong looked at Chris and asked, "Have you all learned about QQ's latest feature upgrade and target audience?"
Chris nodded. "I've always been in charge of overseeing the network in China, so I downloaded and tried out the original version of QQ when it was released. However, the QQ at that time was a feature-reduced version."
"But ever since Dailusi Media invested in Penguin Technology, the upgrades and optimizations of QQ and other apps have clearly shown that they have indeed invested a lot of money and technology behind the scenes."
Chen Dong fell into thought. He thought to himself, if this matter is related to the Freemasons, they do have the capability to come up with so much money all at once.
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