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The entrepreneurial history of Qiu Bojun, CEO of Jinshan Company

Jinshan: Qiu Bojun

Qiu Bojun,1964165438+1was born in Xinchang County, Zhejiang Province on October 26th. ?

1984, graduated from National University of Defense Technology, and was assigned to an instrument factory of Geophysical Exploration Bureau of xushui county Ministry of Petroleum; ?

1986 resigned from the instrument factory and joined Beijing stone company; 1987 transferred to Shenzhen stone company; ?

1988, joined Hong Kong Jinshan Company and engaged in software development in Shenzhen; ?

1989 transferred to Zhuhai, and successfully developed the first set of word processing software WPS in China; ?

65438-0994, established Zhuhai Jinshan Computer Company independently in Zhuhai, and served as the chairman and general manager. ?

The Yangtze River flows eastward, and the waves wash away heroes. In the days when CCDOS Yan, Wang Yongmin, 2. 13 and Zhu Chongjun gradually disappeared from the foreground, Qiu Bojun, like an evergreen tree, constantly interpreted stories and legends for us-1994, the failure of Pangu component, 1995, China's first game software, The Revelation of Zhongguancun.

Qiu Bojun didn't fail for ten years because he has been taking a different road from ordinary programmers. Most excellent programmers choose the road of starting their own business or partnership, and Qiu Bojun turned to big companies like Stone, Jinshan and Founder as soon as he debuted. The experience in these companies has given Qiu Bojun the vision and mind of a big company. This is the essential reason why Qiu Bojun is superior to contemporary programmers. ?

Debut?

1 1 years ago, a female student from Shenzhen university came to their unit for an internship. Qiu Bojun, who fell in love with this female classmate, went to Shenzhen on June1986+1October 65438. Qiu Bojun said that this trip to Shenzhen is a second opportunity that cannot be missed in this life. "I suddenly found that the world in Shenzhen is really beautiful and everything is fresh. In Shenzhen, I first heard' time is money, efficiency is life', and I like this fast pace. " Shenzhen, in full swing, is so attractive to 22-year-old Qiu Bojun. This appeal prompted Qiu Bojun to decide to resign from his original unit immediately. "The unit won't let me resign, and I can't do much. In order to go out as soon as possible, all accounts and files are left, so what if you don't want them! Whatever. Let's go out first. " ?

On the way to Shenzhen, Qiu Bojun's stopovers in Zhuoxian County, Hebei Province and Beijing delayed his trip to Shenzhen. Qiu Bojun developed a 24-dot matrix printing driver that only Zhuo Xian can use when he helped his fellow villagers solve the computer printing problem, and improved it into a universal Xishan printing driver that supports various printers. In the computer room of a fellow villager, Qiu Bojun spent nine nights rewriting the original print driver along the original ideas.

Nine days later, Qiu Bojun arrived in Beijing with eight floppy disks driven by Xishan printing, and planned to rush to Shenzhen from there.

Before leaving, Qiu Bojun, egged on by his classmates, went to Sitong to show them his print driver. Si Tong was pushing the OKI8320 printer and was short of a good driver. In this way, Xishan print driver was sold to Sitong at the price of 2,000 yuan, paid in 10 month, and "Sitong sold hundreds of sets at the price of one set in 500 yuan." ?

Feeling that Qiu Bojun was a talented person, Sitong began to retain Qiu Bojun. "Come and join us and set up Shenzhen Stone next year. I will definitely transfer you." In this way, Qiu Bojun stayed in Sitong. He is the first foreign employee recruited by Stone who has no room in Beijing. Stone rented him a bed in Yibin Building. In Sitong, Qiu Bojun met the person who had the greatest influence on him during his growth-Zhang, the boss of Hong Kong Jinshan. ?

At that time, Zhang Zheng was pushing the super machine with the stone. A batch of machines have BIOS problems and cannot be started. It took Qiu Bojun a night to fix it. "Hong Kong can't solve this problem. From then on, Zhang began to dig me. " ?

Shenzhen Stone was established, Beijing Stone did not agree to release Qiu Bojun, and Qiu Bojun's plan to make word processing software similar to MS240 1 on PC was rejected again. Therefore, Qiu Bojun wrote a letter of resignation to Wan Runnan, then president of Sitong. Wan Runnan quickly instructed: "The company is newly established and talents are rare. It is recommended that Shen Guojun and Wang Yuxi negotiate deeper. " ?

Qiu Bojun finally came to the long-awaited Shenzhen. When he first arrived in Shenzhen, Si Tong put him in charge of a business department of the company. It happened that Zhang's younger brother Zhang Xiaolong was doing business with him. Even if you do business with good friends, Qiu Bojun can't make money. Several years later, Qiu Bojun and Zhang Xiaolong mentioned the profession of businessmen in a chat, and Zhang Xiaolong revealed how much money he earned from those businesses. Qiu Bojun said with a smile, "No wonder I can't make money. You earned all the money. " Let Qiu Bojun do business, just like finding a fish from a tree, and give him an environment to concentrate on developing software, like a duck to water. At this moment, Hong Kong Jinshan Company promised to provide him with conditions to concentrate on developing WPS. "No high-paying job is enough." ?

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2 "The entrepreneurial history of Qiu Bojun, CEO of Jinshan Company"

Qiu Bojun decided to give it a shot. His goal is clear: to build a Hanka font library and write a word processing system, which can replace WordStar. This goal is the later WPS. In order to achieve this goal,1May 1988 to1September 1989, Qiu Bojun shut himself in a room reserved for him by Zhang in Shenzhen and kept writing as long as he was awake. Sleep for a while whenever you are sleepy and eat instant noodles when you are hungry. In such a year and four months, Qiu Bojun fell ill three times, with the first hepatitis, the second recurrence and the third recurrence, and was hospitalized for one to two months at a time. The second recurrence of hepatitis is the most critical moment in software development. Qiu Bojun moved the computer to the ward to continue writing. ? The pain of development is not illness or physical and mental exhaustion, but loneliness. "With a question, I don't know who to ask. I solved the problem and no one shared the joy." Qiu Bojun wrote hundreds of thousands of lines of WPS in this loneliness. When writing the last line of the program, Qiu Bojun felt nothing. "After any product is successful, there will be no feelings. The so-called feelings are all summed up later. " ?

Qiu Bojun, as the author, was numb, but Lei Jun, who was still in college, was shocked when he saw WPS. "I don't believe China has such good software. At that time, I felt that this software must have been made in Hong Kong. " ?

WPS did not advertise or comment on any awards. It just became popular by word of mouth. Qiu Bojun's explanation for the reason is simple-"There is no such thing in the market. Later Wang Code 480 and Giant 6402 were imitations of WPS. " Lei Jun's explanation is, "WPS positioning is very accurate, that is, word processing, not typesetting. At that time, making a typesetting was too complicated for users to accept. " ?

Ten years?

WPS began to earn money, with more than 30,000 sets per year, and the wholesale price of each set was more than 2,200 yuan. "But this is the company making money. For me, I didn't make any money. I'm just a part-time worker. At the beginning of development, I didn't talk to the company about commission or shares. There's nothing. The boss gave me a little bonus. " ? "If I had thought about how to make money from the beginning, I wouldn't be here today. Career has nothing to do with money. When you devote yourself to development, you have to do it without giving you money. At the time of development, there is no mind to consider the reward. Only when you have achieved your career first can you be qualified to talk about remuneration. " ?

1993, WPS, which sang the song of triumph all the way, met the challenge of Word. Qiu Bojun took the initiative to meet the challenge and made a product similar to the office suite, called Pangu Component, which contained WPS, electronic watch and dictionary. ?

Qiu Bojun summed up the reasons for the failure of Pangu components today: First, Pangu's power was scattered, and WPS's leading edge in the field of word processing at that time was not brought into play; Second, WPS, a very appealing name, has never been used; Third, Pangu itself is not perfect, what you see is what you get, completely copying the DOS version; Fourth, the newly independent Zhuhai Jinshan Company has no sales experience. "We started out as a development department. Pangu came out, sold, publicized and planned, and we had to do everything ourselves, so we couldn't cope for a while. " Pangu is the first software made independently by Qiu Bojun after the merger of Hong Kong Jinshan by Founder. Unfortunately, it lost Zhang's "dividend" to Qiu Bojun. Do you still want to do it? "Don't do what to do? There are my feelings in WPS. Perception is of course irrational, but many decisions cannot be made in a rational state. A very rational person will not create any miracles. "

When Pangu failed, Qiu Bojun was suggested to make use of his existing fame, engage in system integration and do some projects. "You are famous and it is relatively easy to pull projects." But Qiu Bojun insists that WPS can't give up. ? 1995, Microsoft threw a hydrangea to Qiu Bojun before digging Liao Hengyi. Qiu Bojun refused because: "First, Microsoft is arrogant and gives me the feeling that I can't see them when I look up. They sincerely said to me,' Work hard and have a future here.' It's hard for me to accept; Second, many friends advised me that you can't live up to this banner. "? I support Qiu Bojun because he firmly believes that "I can do what Word can do. " ?

What Qiu Bojun didn't expect was that the development time of WPS97 would be so long. "There are many new things in Windows that we are not familiar with, and Microsoft has been upgraded. A lot of technical information is not easy to find. Microsoft holds Windows, and we have to start from scratch, which leads to the dystocia of WPS97. If WPS97 can be launched at 1995 and directly compete with Word 6.0, Word 6.0 will definitely have no chance. " ?

If time drags on, money and confidence will become problems. "1996 The second half of the year is the most difficult time. Money began to be tight, confidence was insufficient, and the future felt rather bleak. At that time, we vigorously promoted game software and explored other markets, but it was estimated that the game could not make money. Now, I still don't think playing games makes money. Foreign games make money, because its main market is abroad, and little investment is made at home, so it can make money. We also tested other markets, but we didn't succeed and didn't say anything. " 1996, depressed Qiu Bojun was not as lonely as 1989 in Shenzhen Hotel. He found a place to vent his feelings-BBS, and he wrote more than 300 letters to his station friends a day. "It is very important to cheer each other up. I cheer for my man and cheer for myself. " ?

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3 "The Entrepreneurial History of Qiu Bojun, CEO of Jinshan Company"

"We have never had a big income, and the game is nine Niu Yi hairs. At that time, no one would have the confidence to use WPS projects to attract funds. " At this moment, Qiu Bojun played a key role in WPS investment. It is driven by this emotion that Qiu Bojun feels that it is also a waste to live in a villa again. He sold the villa for 2 million yuan to keep the development of WPS97 going. It is this feeling that drives Qiu Bojun to lead the development team for four years, working 12 hours a day, 365 days a year. "Words can be completed by more than 200 people. We are less than 65,438+00. There is no way, I can only pay several times more labor and sweat than others. "

The past of the heroic age?

There is a joke that Wang Yongmin was eating in a hotel when someone suddenly came over and asked him, is it Wang Ma? Wang Yongmin said, "I'm Wang Yongmin", and the man apologized again and again. "Sorry, I mistook you for someone else." ?

Before 1994, the most famous IT industry in China was not the presidents of Lenovo, Founder and Great Wall, let alone the CEOs of IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Compaq, but the names of programmers written on the cover of the program-Qiu Bojun, Bao, and so on. Thousands of users are full of admiration for these programmers when they start using these "signed articles" every day. ?

It was a heroic era, and a programmer could start a company and make a career and fame with his own source program. Until today, some programmers still have the habit of removing the hard disk from the machine and taking it home every day after development. In their view, the source program is everything to them. ?

But at this time, the source program brought home by the programmer is not so important, and the heroic era when a programmer broke into the world alone is gone forever. It is impossible for China to produce a second Qiu Bojun, because there is no objective condition to produce a procedural hero. ?

Today's software is so huge that it needs the cooperation of a large number of programmers to complete it. If you want to sign a Word, you can't finish writing hundreds of names on a whole screen. From today's point of view, personal talent is brilliant, just like Don Quixote riding a thin horse for a long time without moving, as tragic as charging the windmill. ?

On the "small software" within the scope of personal ability, personal legends are also facing the end of the road. Because in the Internet age, even the smallest software has to compete globally to win users in China. Nowadays, users in China are no longer willing to pay anything as they used to. They are skeptical and negative about every software to be loaded into the hard disk. In addition, in this era of packaging and planning, there are too many examples of software with the same function being hot in the market and left out in front of the door. Programmers who are good at loop statements don't understand "selling points" and "hype" ?

In an era when heroes are destined to be the past, a new generation of programmers are destined not to yearn for legends. But even without the temptation of fame, people who really love programs will still be fascinated by programming, and there is no need to worry that no one will want to be a programmer again. Chen Jiangning, the author of Tianhui, may not have thought of returning to Beijing when he left Beijing sadly in 1996, but he finally returned to Beijing this year 10, unable to bear the loneliness of Xiaogan, Hubei. Although Chen Jiangning knew that there might be no chance of becoming famous again, he still came back. ...

WPS97 sold 13000 units in just over two months. Such a good momentum was unexpected even for Qiu Bojun. "WPS97 does have many national characteristics. In addition, WPS97 is small and simple, and the Word is huge, which is too difficult for non-computer professionals. I don't object to your using Word, but please try WPS97. " ?

"WPS97 is accepted by the market. Another important reason is that WPS has a user base of 20 million. Every original function key of WPS is its wealth. F8 is an analog display, so you don't have to bother to use the mouse. The user base of 20 million is not only an advantage of users' habits, but also an emotional advantage. Many users wrote and said,' I just got up by WPS, and I have feelings for it; I studied computer from WPS, and my graduation thesis was typed with WPS. My wife was met during the WPS training. Wait a minute. "?

Now, Qiu Bojun's goal is as clear as when he wrote WPS 1.0-the market share exceeds Word. Qiu Bojun knew it would be very difficult to achieve this goal: "Our competition with Microsoft is in China's home market. It doesn't matter if you don't make money in China market, but for us, we must make money. If we don't make money, we can't live. " ?

China's first programmer?

At home, the program is better than Qiu Bojun's. It should be said that there are many, but we are still willing to regard Qiu Bojun as the first programmer in China. Because:?

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4 "The entrepreneurial history of Qiu Bojun, CEO of Jinshan Company"

First, as a programmer, no one is more influential than Qiu Bojun. There are probably more people in China who know Qiu Bojun's name than Gates. So CCTV "Oriental Time and Space" invited Qiu Bojun on the day Gates came to China to talk about how WPS97 confronted Word in the face of interviewing national software. In the eyes of many people, Qiu Bojun is a symbol of national software. ?

Secondly, WPS is one of the most popular softwares in China. As long as you have used the computer for more than 3 years, it is almost impossible not to use WPS. ?

Qiu Bojun himself thinks that there is nothing between programs, and all the functions can be realized in the end. The winner is king. "There are two styles of programs, one is written in a standardized way that everyone can understand; One is not standardized, short and pithy, and a few instructions can complete an application, paying attention to speed. " Qiu Bojun thinks he belongs to the latter. In Qiu Bojun's view, an excellent programmer must have at least the following qualities: First, he must be able to bear hardships. Staying up late and working overtime to eat instant noodles is a kind of bitterness; Another kind of bitterness is that the salary of being a programmer in China will not be very high. "Not high, you can't afford it." Second, be talented. "In China, there are many talented programmers." The third is faith. "When you fail, you must be able to persist. Like me, I have written a lot of failed software. " Fourth, love this business. "I am willing to write without giving money." Fifth, it is unity. "Now the program is very big, with CD as the unit. Without the spirit of cooperation, you can't make good software. At that time, we could be heroes ourselves, but now we can't. " Sixth, we must meet opportunities. "I caught up with the opportunity that the computer just entered China and everything was blank." ?

Comparing these, how did Qiu Bojun become the first programmer in China? ?

Qiu Bojun got full marks in mathematics in the college entrance examination, and the class teacher reported him to the Department of Systems Engineering and Mathematics, National University of Defense Technology, 1980. He only recruited systems engineering majors, and systems engineering required a lot of computers. Qiu Bojun has since forged an indissoluble bond with computers. Qiu Bojun said that this college entrance examination volunteer is the first opportunity he can't miss today. ?

Qiu Bojun showed his talent in this field as soon as he touched the computer. 1983 Qiu Bojun's book lending and returning management system for the library of National University of Defense Technology. This system consists of a Honeywell-DPS 6 minicomputer and dozens of terminals. From design to development, Qiu Bojun completed it in his spare time of two or three months. A national newspaper published a news that Qiu Bojun, a student, successfully developed the library management system of National Defense Science and Technology University. But Qiu Bojun can't remember what newspaper it is. "I didn't care about this kind of thing at the time." ?

The library program is the first usable program written by Qiu Bojun, which made Qiu Bojun earn more than 40 yuan.

From 65438 to 0986, Qiu Bojun began to study the Chinese character system CCDOS at that time, found out its shortcomings, and made some minor changes with debug. At that time, the CCDOS pinyin input method entered a letter and displayed a line of Chinese characters for selection. When pinyin is input continuously, the next line is displayed after the last line is written, which is extremely slow. Qiu Bojun's first change to CCDOS is that when pinyin is continuously input, even if the Chinese characters to be selected corresponding to the first pinyin letter are not displayed, if the next pinyin letter is received at this time, the lines to be selected on the previous screen will not be displayed. ?

This is Qiu Bojun's first in-depth contact with this PC, and the analysis of CCDOS laid the foundation for him to write low-level SPDOS of WPS in the future. ?

Qiu Bojun, a programmer himself, thinks that programmers are the most difficult to manage. His experience is: sales staff, give higher wages, more bonuses, everything is easy. It's not just a matter of money for programmers. First, you should respect others, intellectuals have a "bad temper"; Second, we should give programmers an environment in which they can play. You can't get too deep. Developing a program belongs to creation, and you can't force others to finish it in a few days. Writing programs is the same as writing articles. The idea is open and can't be used for a day. Without inspiration, you may not be able to write for a month. "We are groping for some experience and can't copy foreign ones, because foreign countries can use advanced software engineering methods and invest hundreds of people to make a product. And we can't, we can't afford to vote, and often a person does the work of several people. Some things have no choice but to streamline. "

Qiu Bojun is qualified to talk about programmer management, because the programmer team in Zhuhai Jinshan is relatively stable and has been the core personnel of WPS97 for four years. ?

Piracy is a robbery against programmers. Qiu Bojun believes that the biggest influence on the development of software in China is piracy. "Our country has formulated many preferential policies for the information industry, but these are irrelevant to software companies. As long as the piracy problem is solved, all other problems are solved. WPS sells genuine 1 set and pirated1set. Assuming that one set of 10 is stolen, the ratio of 1 to 10 becomes 2 to 9. For piracy, there is one less set. For me, my income has doubled. If I double, I don't need any tax exemption at all. " ?

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5 "The entrepreneurial history of Qiu Bojun, CEO of Jinshan Company"

Interview notes?

On the day when Gates 1 1 came to Beijing, Qiu Bojun was invited to the studio by CCTV Oriental Time and Space. In the face-to-face column, he talked about why he wanted to short WPS97 and how to fight against Word. Qiu Bojun has become a figure who can compete with Gates. Qiu Bojun got off the plane from Zhuhai to Beijing and went straight to CCTV without eating. The five-minute program and interview took five hours. ?

WPS97 appeared as BLACKPINK, and Qiu Bojun grew a beard when he held a press conference at Friendship Hotel. At that time, he was seeking the support of large ministries and commissions, and it was inevitable to deal with officials who thought that "there was no hair on his mouth and things were not firm." On TV this time, Qiu Bojun wore a Chinese tunic suit specially made in Shanghai, which looked very Chinese. ?

Gztv Production Center is also planning to shoot Qiu Bojun's legendary TV series. Qiu Bojun asked their scripts to portray his self-improvement, wisdom and firmness. ?

According to Lei Jun, there are many articles about Qiu Bojun, but none of them are satisfactory. Lei Jun said this probably because he thought his article was well written, but Lei Jun also said that he could not write Qiu Bojun well because he was too familiar with Qiu Bojun. Lei Jun's theory is that if you want to write a good person, you can't be unfamiliar with him or too familiar with him. Unfamiliar, not deep in writing; Too familiar, turn a blind eye, feel nothing to write. ?

My interview started at eight o'clock in the evening, and I stayed at Yanshan Hotel with Qiu Bojun and Lei Jun in the evening, because I had to get up early the next day to watch 7: 20 Eastern Time and Space, and he had to be interviewed by China Daily reporter at breakfast. So, we talked until three in the morning and fell asleep. ?

In our eyes, Qiu Bojun's programmers are much more colorful than managers' ideas. ?

Qiu Bojun has been in charge of Jinshan Company alone for some time. It has been ten years since Zhang started teaching Qiu Bojun how to enter the so-called upper class from 1987. Qiu Bojun has already got the message about etiquette, habits and even what clothes to wear on any occasion. For example, he knows that speaking in various places requires wearing a Chinese tunic suit; Knowing that you want to stay in Yanshan Hotel when you come to Beijing also overcomes the stage fright when you are blushing and speechless. There are few people who are afraid now, and it is boring to talk. ?

But at heart, Qiu Bojun is still a programmer, and he hasn't stopped writing programs until today. When he comes across an application that can be realized by a program, he will not look for ready-made software everywhere like most users, but write one himself. "Look around, how much trouble! It is better to write one. " ?

Qiu Bojun's way of thinking is assembly. He can write an assembly without machine thinking, which makes his men admire. Qiu Bojun thinks the compiled program is very beautiful. ?

Qiu Bojun likes playing games himself, so although Revelation from Zhongguancun, Civil Aviation of China and Love between Swordsman didn't make any money, Qiu Bojun insisted on making game software and will launch anti-Japanese at the end of this year. This is not the way businessmen do business, but the way programmers do business. ?

Qiu Bojun, who can apply assembly to the extreme, can't use Word. He thinks that the functions that word processing needs to accomplish can be realized in WPS. "If there is any function that cannot be realized, I will propose to add this function." ?

Qiu Bojun loves WPS as much as his twin children. If you speak ill of WPS to your face, Qiu Bojun will definitely ask you angrily, "What happened to WPS?" The reason you gave is definitely not as good as Qiu Bojun's refuting your reason.

When Qiu Bojun first learned that someone had stolen his version, he, like all programmers, was glad that someone was using his own things. ?

Qiu Bojun optimistically estimated that WPS has 20 million users. Qiu Bojun is proud that WPS has supported a group of booksellers, a group of people engaged in training and running classes, and a group of girls who type, which has promoted the popularization of computers. ?

Qiu Bojun believes that many programmers of his generation did not switch to Windows in time, not because they were obsessed with shortcomings, but because developing programs on Windows could not be completed by one person. "Investment is much larger than DOS. Not many people have this steering force. "

Qiu Bojun loves to read martial arts books, historical books and social documentary works, and is not interested in foreign literature. "Foreign classics, including movies and music, don't feel the same way and can't cause * * *. I am a traditional nationalist and like Chinese folk music, such as guzheng and guqin. "

Shenzhen Stone was established, Beijing Stone did not agree to release Qiu Bojun, and Qiu Bojun's plan to make word processing software similar to MS240 1 on PC was rejected again. Therefore, Qiu Bojun wrote a letter of resignation to Wan Runnan, then president of Sitong. Wan Runnan quickly instructed: "The company is newly established and talents are rare. It is recommended that Shen Guojun and Wang Yuxi negotiate deeper. " ?

Qiu Bojun finally came to the long-awaited Shenzhen. When he first arrived in Shenzhen, Si Tong put him in charge of a business department of the company. It happened that Zhang's younger brother Zhang Xiaolong was doing business with him. Even if you do business with good friends, Qiu Bojun can't make money. Several years later, Qiu Bojun and Zhang Xiaolong mentioned the profession of businessmen in a chat, and Zhang Xiaolong revealed how much money he earned from those businesses. Qiu Bojun said with a smile, "No wonder I can't make money. You earned all the money. " Let Qiu Bojun do business, just like finding a fish from a tree, and give him an environment to concentrate on developing software, like a duck to water. At this moment, Hong Kong Jinshan Company promised to provide him with conditions to concentrate on developing WPS. "No high-paying job is enough." ?

Qiu Bojun decided to give it a shot. His goal is clear: to build a Hanka font library and write a word processing system, which can replace WordStar. This goal is the later WPS. In order to achieve this goal,1May 1988 to1September 1989, Qiu Bojun shut himself in a room reserved for him by Zhang in Shenzhen and kept writing as long as he was awake. Sleep for a while whenever you are sleepy and eat instant noodles when you are hungry. In such a year and four months, Qiu Bojun fell ill three times, with the first hepatitis, the second recurrence and the third recurrence, and was hospitalized for one to two months at a time. The second recurrence of hepatitis is the most critical moment in software development. Qiu Bojun moved the computer to the ward to continue writing. ? The pain of development is not illness or physical and mental exhaustion, but loneliness. "With a question, I don't know who to ask. I solved the problem and no one shared the joy." Qiu Bojun wrote hundreds of thousands of lines of WPS in this loneliness. When writing the last line of the program, Qiu Bojun felt nothing. "After any product is successful, there will be no feelings. The so-called feelings are all summed up later. " ?

Qiu Bojun, as the author, was numb, but Lei Jun, who was still in college, was shocked when he saw WPS. "I don't believe China has such good software. At that time, I felt that this software must have been made in Hong Kong. " ?

WPS did not advertise or comment on any awards. It just became popular by word of mouth. Qiu Bojun's explanation for the reason is simple-"There is no such thing in the market. Later Wang Code 480 and Giant 6402 were imitations of WPS. " Lei Jun's explanation is, "WPS positioning is very accurate, that is, word processing, not typesetting. At that time, making a typesetting was too complicated for users to accept. "