Lavender blooms in Provence, France, and the Bordeaux region is famous for its red wine.

Originally planned to stay at Lily's wine estate for two days, but it took a week to return to the United States, Lily went to school for the graduation ceremony, and Su Mu returned to the company to continue to help.

At first, he was going to contact the University of Oxford privately to talk about the hypertext patent, but Su Mu felt that it would be more effective to have a lawyer come forward, so he gave the task to Nelson's lawyer, and it did work, and the day before the official trial process began in July, the University of Oxford sent a legal adviser to confirm that the date of registration of the patent was before the old professor left.

Every day there are small things, not many big things, occasionally and Lily take time to meet, the company developed smoothly, in the blink of an eye to December 1989.

As recently as November, the GDR government announced that citizens would be allowed to apply to visit the Federal Republic of Germany, as well as West Berlin, and the Berlin Wall was forced to open that night under pressure from the GDR residents. Banners were hung on the outer railings of the White House to celebrate the victory.

In July of this year, when the United Airlines Flight 232 crashed and the young programmer was killed, Su Mu personally went to his grave to deliver a bouquet of flowers.

On October 17, a 6.9 magnitude earthquake struck San Francisco, California, and there was also a significant earthquake in Silicon Valley, causing a total of about 300 deaths and economic losses of more than one billion US dollars.

Just yesterday, December 4, US President George Herbert Walker Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev held a summit meeting in Malta, at which many things were discussed, and the media believed that this marked the end of the Cold War.

That's all for the big things, and the rest of the days are pretty much the same.

Su Mu has made a lot of money this year, and the sales of Penguin's Dream2 model personal computers have exceeded expectations, thanks to the crazy increase in the number of netizens, the sales volume is rising every month, and the magnitude is not small, maintaining at about four percent, and 10,700 computers were sold throughout November, resulting in the factory producing about 16 hours a day!

The original plan of 3 percent market share was reached as early as October, and now it occupies about 3.6 percent of the market share, and he announced that he will give employees a generous year-end bonus this year, and the Penguin employees have been waiting for it for a long time.

The number of users of Bee and OO both exceeded 300,000, becoming the world's most popular computer software program, with a combined valuation of about $1.2 billion.

Compared with OO browser, investors obviously pay more attention to OO with a wider user base, Microsoft finally came to the door, signed a cooperation agreement, and decided to carry OO browser in Microsoft's indos operating system from January 1 next year, in return, Su Mu needs to pay Microsoft $11 million a year, he still holds all the shares of OO company, and is happy to pay this money.

It's not that there are no competitors, live chat programs are popping up, and there are all kinds of messes, and several programs with decent user experiences have indeed managed to emerge, forcing Bee's developers to work hard to drum up a more popular product.

As early as the end of September this year, there was a search engine called "Meteor", and the investors behind it were unexpected, it was actually Oracle founder Larry Ellison, who used different technologies from OO, but the search engine was infringing, and when Su Mu came to the door, the guy was unwilling to regress, and said that it was a big deal to lose his money, which was really worthy of the title of "the most shameless in Silicon Valley".

For the time being, it has not posed enough threat to OO, and deliberately bypassed some of the patents held by Su Mu, making this browser called Meteor flawed, which is why Su Mu found Gates to propose cooperation, Ellison became his and Gates' common enemy, and Ellison was so angry that he scolded in private.

Since the end of last year, the lifeless Silicon Valley has ushered in its second spring, bursting with endless vitality, all kinds of disputes are quite serious, and you can listen to the gossip of various companies every day.

The people of Forbes magazine recently contacted Su Mu by phone, not to mention the top 100 this time, it is possible to even enter the top 20, and no matter how bad it is, it can squeeze into the top 30, and the goal has been achieved ahead of schedule.

The company is worth a lot of money, but the funds in Su Mu's account are decreasing sharply, and this month he has to pay salaries and bonuses, Penguin has not paid dividends in recent years, so he doesn't have to worry about the salaries of more than 2,000 employees over there, but Galaxy has more than 800 mouths, but they all have to pay money from Su Mu's pocket to support them. A few days ago, I just sold Intel stocks worth 100 million US dollars, and the actual market value was only more than 92 million US dollars.

Reluctant to sell Intel's high-quality stock, but unfortunately there is no way, Galaxy can only get in and out, more than 800 employees, a salary is about 50 million US dollars a year, not counting other expenses, if it is not not in line with the NASDAQ listing requirements, Su Mu will definitely go public directly, and he can't afford to support this company at all.

The appraisal agency gave Bee and OO a high valuation, but Su Mu himself didn't believe it, they were really worth so much money, and he knew very well that most of it was speculation, Wall Street was misleading investors, and the people of Silicon Valley were not stupid, and they also cooperated with each other, saying to everyone that they could make a lot of money in the future, but the fact was that they didn't know the bottom in their hearts, and the bigger the company was, the more valuable it was, and some companies said that they would go bankrupt, and that was because the capital chain was broken.

Without considering the premise of layoffs, Su Mu expected that at the end of 1991, his capital chain would be in crisis, and at that time he could only choose to sell Microsoft shares to support a few more years, or go public in advance, and it was unrealistic to rely on them to make a profit in just two years.

All in all, Silicon Valley's dependence on capital is becoming more and more important, and he has a premonition that a prosperous era is coming in advance, and under this premise, the slow speed of Internet transmission has become an important limiting factor restricting the development of the Internet......