How about Alibaba Cloud Company?

Netease Technology News On September 10, today, at the 10th anniversary celebration party of Alibaba, Alibaba's cloud computing team appeared in an independent capacity, and a subsidiary named "Alibaba Cloud" was formally established. After the establishment of the new company, five companies under Alibaba Group have become Alibaba, Taobao, Alipay, Alibaba Cloud and Yahoo China.

It is understood that the newly established Alibaba Cloud is composed of the original Alibaba Software, the R&D Institute of Alibaba Group, and the underlying technical teams of B2B and Taobao, with Wang Jian, the chief architect of Alibaba Group and the president of the R&D Institute of Alibaba Group, in charge.

Prior to this, the software business and assets of small enterprises represented by "money treasurer" of Ali Software have been classified as B2B listed companies, and the personal software represented by Taobao Want Want has been classified as Taobao, and the actual business of Ali Software is very few.

According to the relevant person in charge, Alibaba Cloud will mainly engage in the research and development of basic technologies in the future, not involving specific software products. Take Alibaba's new input method as an example. Alibaba Cloud is only in charge of technology research and development. B2B will launch Alibaba's input method based on this technology, and Taobao will launch Taobao's input method accordingly. Different input methods will have different fonts.

As early as April 2009, Alibaba had set foot in cloud computing, and Ali Software established the first "e-commerce cloud computing center" in Nanjing, with an initial investment of 654.38 billion yuan.

Wang Tao, former senior vice president of Alibaba Group and general manager of Ali Software, once said that Alibaba Cloud Computing can mine and refine product information, reputation system, payment tools and IM user resources on various platforms in Ali, which has great commercial value. Wang Tao said that Ali Software will build a number of similar "e-commerce cloud computing centers".