The sun and the moon are like shuttles, time is like an arrow, and there are too many things happening at the end of '86 and the beginning of '87. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoWhile Alice has been preparing for investment in Japan, the world is constantly changing its wonders.

For example, at the end of last year, when Alice had only been in Eton for two months, Queen Elizabeth visited Hong Kong for the second time. You must know that the "Sino-British Joint Declaration" was signed as early as the end of 84, and it is necessary to visit more when it is still its own territory, and I think any leader will do this.

At the same time, in Chinese mainland, the high-tech research and development plan, the "863" program, was officially launched. The "Outline" has identified 15 thematic projects in seven fields as the focus of China's future development of high technology. It involves the fields of biotechnology, aerospace technology, information technology, laser technology, automation technology, energy technology, marine technology and new materials, and can be said to be the beginning of the country's real modernization.

Then, in March 1987, shortly after Alice returned to school, the Chinese and Portuguese governments initialed a joint declaration on the question of Macao. The statement confirmed that the Chinese Government would resume the exercise of sovereignty over Macao on 20 December 1999. When the statement was released, Alice, who had just finished class, didn't know that James had delivered an informative email to her email address until she went to bed at night.

Of course, while the international political situation continues to stage wonderful scenes, the e-mails reporting work are also sent to Alice's mailbox as always and uninterruptedly. A mere fifteen-year-old girl has been involved with so many companies, which is not as busy as ordinary peers can imagine.

If you want to say which type of email has the highest volume, it must be from Microsoft. It is precisely with the increasingly developed Internet infrastructure and the hardware equipment purchased from Cisco that Alice's R&D and directing work has been remotely networked ahead of countless enterprises.

At every given moment of the day, Howard, an R&D assistant at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, would summarize all the progress of the day and the problems encountered during the day into a single email. Then, in less than an hour on average, Alice will send back instructions on the next steps and solutions to the problem with extreme efficiency. Over time, I believe that if you print out all the emails you exchange with each other, you will have no problem printing a whole thick book.

When the timeline enters March, Cisco's business there has also changed significantly, and the most important work is the sale of firewall equipment that has been developed for a long time.

Of course, the company will not only sell this product to the Pentagon, in fact, it is precisely because of the "Exchangegate" incident in March last year that IBM is equivalent to a wonderful advertisement for Cisco in advance, so that enterprises and government departments around the world have realized the importance of network security. So, in early March, when Cisco announced that the firewall would be sold, Alice immediately received a special email that clearly stated what had happened since then: the company phone had been flooded.

Then, as March draws to a close, and three days before the official sale, Alice receives another email that makes her overjoyed.

Order catalog.

The first order was, of course, for the Pentagon, then the Capitol and the White House, and the FBI, the CIA, the National Security Agency, the Homeland Security Agency, and many other prestigious agencies. It should be known that before the computer network was civilianized, the "Arpa Net," which was the predecessor, was set up for the purpose of militarization, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they were the first real users of the computer network in this whole batch of orders from Washington.

From the Pentagon, to Congress, to the White House, to the FBI, to the CIA, to the NSA...... Washington is the most central area of American politics, and countless politicians have a complex and closed social circle. It is not difficult for these people to learn that Alice is developing a firewall, from the Minister of Defense to the president, from the president to the speakers of the two houses and the heads of relevant special agencies, a single word can solve some problems.

The question then becomes: how many processes do you have to go through?

The government's money comes from taxpayers, and it cannot be spent casually, and the expenditure of large sums of money often requires coordination and consultation between various departments, which is a very complicated issue. From a dramatic point of view, it can even make a Hollywood director make an entire movie or even a series for a certain expenditure!

However, this has nothing to do with Ellie.

Because it's all within the politicians' own circles.

Anyway, Cisco's current market position is here, the first in the industry, and the current second-ranked Lucent Technology is at least one-third inferior to the former in terms of product performance, and the ghost knows how far the firewall developed by Cisco can be.

And the objective situation is still a seller's market. Affected by the "exchangegate" scandal and the hacking incidents in recent months, Washington, led by the Pentagon, is desperately needing the firewall, not Cisco, which desperately wants the firewall to be sold.

The main advantage is here, so Alice didn't even bother to bribe Donimic Flair, or even Vice President George H.W. Bush - let's just sit back and wait for the order to come to you!

Therefore, the order really came to the door obediently.

And that's just that.

Alice had long analyzed the market situation, in fact, it has always been the case, that is, small businesses don't need firewalls at all, because few people are too idle to hack them. So, since all those who need to buy firewalls are large and medium-sized enterprises, how to determine the price of the product?

Router, $2,000 apiece.

Switch, $3,000 each.

Well, then the price of the firewall is set at $10,000.

Cost?

Oh, and all three of them are pretty much the same.

In the email sent to Alice, in addition to the one from Washington, there was a long list, which was a list of large and medium-sized companies from all over the country. You know, the "exchangegate" incident is tantamount to giving the world's business parents a heart, so when Cisco announced the start of the development of firewalls a few months ago, and now it is finally going to be sold, the wave of orders is completely unstoppable, and of course no one will stop it.

"Is this a posture that will make me a full 500 million?"

Alice glanced at the stats, not particularly surprised by the turnover, but staring at this long list of companies, her eyes were almost glazed.

And it seems...... There are no foreign companies yet. ”

This is a very important point, after all, it has only been a day or two since the press conference, and these are the first batch of booking users, and it is not easy to get users in the European and American markets to react.

"So, if you count them as well, in about two years, you should be able to make a billion dollars?"

At this moment, sitting at the writing desk in her single dormitory, Alice was staring at the computer screen and pondering.

$10,000 per unit is enough for an ordinary small and medium-sized enterprise, while a medium-sized enterprise with three or five hundred people needs three to five units. Of course, this is all general, because the amount of network and security needs used by enterprises is not absolutely proportional to the number of people, and Alice has not yet had time to divide the firewall into multiple models.

Because firewalls are security protocol systems after all, performance and quality are the top priorities, unlike routers and switches. And for many large enterprises that are not bad for money, "although" it is ten times more expensive, but it is "safer" many similar products, they will definitely choose the more expensive one.

"Spend money for peace of mind, this is the best way to catch big fish with a long line. Well...... So what price should be set for the next one?"

At this point, when the first batch of firewalls has not actually been sold to pre-order customers, Alice has already begun to imagine the price point of the second batch!

"Well, patch the seventh, fifteenth, and eighteenth...... No, that's a bit of a trick, patch Protocol No. 4, No. 29, and No. 55. The second-generation firewall is ten times more secure, but the price is only 30,000 US dollars, good quality and low price, everyone come and buy it~"

When the last advertising sentence was shouted out in a pinched voice, someone really didn't blush at all!

Because, she can also be set to 50,000, can't she?

Because the security is improved by a factor of ten!

It doesn't matter anymore, Alice looks at her watch, it's half past four in the afternoon, and it's half past four on the last day of March. Since it is the end of the month, it is time again, so many companies under their own control should also send statistical reports.

"Sissi~Sissi~ Is there anyone?"

There seemed to be no one in the room, of course, Alice frowned, and just as she stood up, the door opened and a short-haired girl stood in the doorway, but it was Maimi.

"Are you craving tea?"

"Just have a cup of West Lake Longjing, thank you!"

Maiya chuckled and walked into the room, "Then I'll make you a cup of Coke?"

Alice didn't pay attention to that, but stared at the pantyhose on Maiya's legs, and read in pieces: "It's ugly, it's ugly, why doesn't Eaton tell us to wear denim?"

Maiya gave her a brain jump: "What about the problem, Alice, I'll make you a cup of aspirin solution, what do you think?"

Alice clasped her hands on her hips and shouted, "I think it's a good idea!"

Maiya immediately made a gesture of looking for something everywhere: "Where's the medicine bottle? Where is the medicine bottle? Someone should take the medicine, where is the medicine bottle?"

"Hmph, I've already eaten up the medicine, my dear, you still honestly make me a cup of West Lake Longjing~"

With that, someone sat back in their chair with a light movement, and it was only a minute before and after the new email arrived. (To be continued.) )