The Goddess Shines on America

Throughout the last quarter of 1985, too much was happening.

First of all, on September 21, just when Alice and Jiyou were flying to Shanghai, a huge earthquake in Mexico killed thousands of people. So when everyone returned to China, they found that a lot of Mexicans suddenly appeared on the streets of Los Angeles. They paraded on the streets in groups, hoping that more people would sympathize with their compatriots in their hometown.

However, Alice was very happy personally. News from Chinatown said that on that day, the Shengli Oilfield discovered an enriched and high-yield oil-bearing area, and the relevant content was published in the People's Daily. It is really gratifying and worthy of national celebration, oh yeah .

International relations are also constantly turbulent, with various events happening one after another. Just in October, the North Atlantic General Assembly conditionally endorsed the "Star Wars" program. At the same time, the Chinese government also announced that its self-developed Long March 2 and Long March 3 carrier rockets will be put into the international market to undertake the business of launching satellites from domestic and foreign users; and in November, its first atomic bomb detonation test site The monument has finally been completed, which is really gratifying and worthy of 32 likes from Chinese all over the world.

Alice was silently following the news, but at the same time she did not forget the development of her career. In fact, there are so many things in the past few months that it is really a rhythm that can tire people into dogs.

The cooperation project between Microsoft and IBM started, and precisely because Alice's Cisco developed ahead of schedule, Microsoft was actually in a completely passive position when undertaking this project at this time. IBM's Sima Zhao's heart is well known to everyone, and he made it clear that he wants to occupy a well-deserved dominant position in the cooperation and reap the maximum benefits.

But this is another big cooperation that Microsoft can't refuse, so Alice has to make a move. For a period of time, she has received at least one email from Microsoft every day, which is full of problems that need to be solved at the current stage.

And the efficiency of the girl's reply is really high. If the content of the caller is a simple work report, she will be concise and straight to the center to give the next step of work direction; It's simple, and the corresponding solutions will definitely be sent to the corresponding mailbox before dawn, and there has never been a delay.

In other words, just in October, Gates hung up the phone mysteriously again.

He said so.

"Alice, how about we go public early next year?"

The general idea is that, anyway, this company is developing smoothly along the historical track, and the listing is expected to arrive, and it also brought Windows.NT out two years in advance. Alice sometimes whispers in private, although according to Microsoft's current progress, it is estimated that it will take four or five years of hard research and development to make it, but if Cisco's development can also keep up with the wind, she seems to be able to help build it. Ci kills this problem in advance.

After all, Microsoft has almost always positioned the customers of its products in the enterprise group, specifically for the operating system of computers used as servers, but there is a big, big gap that will definitely increase the company's stock price. Even if she can't compete with the revolutionary changes of Win-95, it's enough for Alice to earn tens of millions of dividends every month.

Therefore, the next step is to see whether Cisco is strong.

For a period of time, the Bosacks have been working happily in their positions. One is the director of the technical department and the other is the head of the customer service department. They live a working day of programmers from nine to eight every day. Although the equity was lost on a large scale, after the work pressure was relieved, every day was relaxed.

Everyone is satisfied with this situation, because Alice has known for a long time that apart from the great ideal of "technology changing society", the direct goal of the business is to get rid of poverty. Otherwise, when they were driven out of the company in the late 1980s in the original history, when they left with the shares worth hundreds of millions of dollars, they never bought Cisco stock again?

At the same time, Cisco's second round of recruitment expansion has also begun. As the sales business gradually spreads to every corner of the west coast and gradually takes root in the east coast, the demand for customer service personnel and various technical personnel is of course increasing day by day.

Plus, after a year and a few months of full development, Cisco's competitors are finally starting to blossom.

A few days ago, Lucent Technology, backed by Bell Labs, played a trick, relying on deliberately crashing the program to obtain key technologies from the patch, but unfortunately it was absorbed by the patent shield that Alice built in an instant. However, after all, they are also capable of doing reverse research and development. At the beginning of November, another style of router was launched by them.

Lucent brand routers have led the country in sales for 666 consecutive years, selling more than 700 million units a year, enough to circle the earth twice~

Such and such a competing product.

Cisco's fundamental market is in California. As early as when Alice set the market strategy for the company, she asked the Bosacks to start around this point. After all, as the location of Silicon Valley, California, whose GDP is equal to the seventh largest economy in the world once it becomes independent after the 21st century, is far more valuable than any state in the country.

Therefore, when Cisco puts its main market in California, while taking into account the entire West Coast, and is expanding to the East Coast, Lucent's strategy must be different.

Faced with the aggressiveness of the "old-timers in the industry", Lucent chose to focus on the central region and strive to expand to the east coast. After all, New Jersey, where its corporate headquarters is located, is a state on the mid-Atlantic coast of the United States. This choice is just like Cisco's bases in California and the West Coast. The geographical advantage will always exist before the advent of the Internet economy.

Other related small businesses have also been established. The most indispensable thing in Silicon Valley is the garage company. Facing Lucent, the largest guy among the new competitors, Alice's approach is to immediately make a new generation of routers. .

The IOS system that comes with the hardware is more refined, and the CPU usage efficiency of the source code is further improved, but the price has not changed at all, which is still the standard of 2,000 US dollars.

So here comes the question, an iphone and an iphone4S, with the same price but different efficiency, which one will customers want more?

For companies that are already buyers of Cisco routers, of course, they will not immediately change for the sake of replacement, but when they expand their scale and want to buy products, they will of course target Cisco's "iphone4S" with the same price. For new customers in new markets, compared with Lucent's "iphone", which is equally cost-effective, how can there be no reason not to buy Cisco's "iphone4S"?

Therefore, when Lucent's routers were launched in early November, Cisco's second-generation routers were immediately launched in late November.

Alice could completely imagine what the boss of Lucent Technology would look like.

Well, congratulations, let's celebrate with a bottle of 85-year-old Sprite.

But as the saying goes, you can know the whole picture by looking at one spot. Now that even New Jersey on the east coast has done it, the Internet hardware market will naturally come to an active period. According to a market survey report in early December, at least ten new companies have been established in the entire Silicon Valley area, with the purpose of "disrupting" Cisco's current "empire form" created by Cisco.

To put it bluntly, everyone wants to share a piece of cake when they see a piece of cake somewhere.

These things are easy to handle. Even if a competitor comes to power, it will take time to become a threat. What's more, Alice is very clear about how Cisco built its "Cisco Empire", isn't it just buying most of its competitors?

But when IBM reappeared, things got a little trickier.

After all, Big Blue started off with hardware, and a company that can manufacture commercial computers will not intend to let go of the Internet hardware market.

Therefore, in late November, when Cisco's second-generation router was launched, IBM's business letter was sent. The meaning of the other party is obvious, and they want to cooperate with Cisco to develop products in this field.

Alice refused without hesitation.

Just kidding, isn't it just bullying the new company's small scale and low background, and want to play the same way as Microsoft?

I need you IBM to teach me how to develop a router?

Hey, who, the boy in the blue uniform, knows what a switch is?

Do you know what is an IP phone? Not an IQ phone, but an IP phone, and an IP business conference call system, have you heard of it?

never heard of that?

I've never heard of cooperation, what a shame, I don't have time to play enlightenment games with rookies!

Well, that's the reason.

Although IBM is the leader of commercial computers, it is completely unqualified to cooperate with Alice in the field of Internet hardware. Although the background is strong and the research and development ability is strong, it is impossible to compare with Alice's talent, let alone her prophetic advantage.

Of course, Alice doesn't care about the consequences of rejecting IBM, because it can't cause any consequences. Throughout the history of Cisco's development, its product line is so complex that it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a forest with a wide variety of species. In other words, Cisco will have many competitors in every field. It is completely that there is no worry about debts, and no itch if there are too many lice!

And a company that started out as a commercial computer and just wanted to make a fortune in this market, even the dignified Big Blue, had limited threats.

In fact, what Alice is really waiting for now is a summons from the Pentagon.

That's right, of course the later generations of Cisco systems are still government contractors, otherwise what do you think the Prism Gate is based on?

In 1992, Senator and former US Vice President Al Gore proposed the American Information Superhighway Act. In September 1993, the U.S. government announced the implementation of a new high-tech plan - the National Information Infrastructure, which aims to use the Internet as a prototype to build a highway in the information age - the information highway, so that all Americans can conveniently Share massive information resources.

The most direct beneficiary of this proposal is of course the entire Internet industry, which is why the 1990s was the golden age of the IT industry. As the biggest beneficiary of this plan, it is not surprising that Cisco can become the company with the highest market value in the 1990s, with a peak value of 550 billion US dollars.

1992, is the original history.

Well, when the current Cisco has achieved a monthly net profit of several million and is overwhelmingly selling products in California, the original 1992 will definitely be brought forward.

Compared to competing with those messy peers in the market, Alice had already set her sights on Washington.

Although, now is not the time.