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LaRore has been with the NASDAQ for two years, but instead of being a well-dressed stockbroker with a thrilling day, he is in the position of an administrator of the exchange's network equipment, responsible for maintaining the valuable computer equipment on a daily basis.

At this time, Larol was bored looking at a magazine, because the routine inspection had already been completed.

Stock exchanges, now that computers are so developed, and the network infrastructure is overwhelming, it is only natural that Nasdaq will introduce these high-end equipment, and it is already quite a trend to follow. It's like the monitor in the trading floor, which was just changed at the end of last year, and the airport flight schedule at the same time was not like that.

"Alas, day by day, isn't there something interesting?"

After flipping through the magazine, he glanced at the Nasdaq index on his computer for today's close.

It can be said that Rome was not built in a day, and the upgrade was not done in a day. Although the exchange was only established in 1971, and the entire management is full of youthful energy, the replacement of hardware equipment is another story. It's like this computer, not to mention that the machine itself is an old model, and the people on it don't even have any intention of buying a Windows system CD.

Larolle's computers at home are still the latest Microsoft systems, but he has to use the old DOS system in the company, this kind of return to the original feeling, anyone who has experienced it has to complain.

Looking at the index, it is still the position that does not move at all, of course, has it closed? Lalore sighed again, he was really bored at home with the daily standard work.

Out of boredom, he spun out of his chair and stared at the humming servers behind him.

Yes, the job of network management is not something that ordinary people can do, so let's just say that the noisy fan sound of these computers is enough to leave sequelae for employees. Fortunately, the management above is not completely out of step with the times, and since the end of last year, they have replaced an equal number of dedicated computers with a new batch of small guys.

Cisco's routers.

It's a treasure, it's small, it's the size of a suitcase, it's cheap, and it's just $2,000, but it can replace a whole whole special-purpose computer that's deadly heavy, expensive, and so delicate. Although Larol is just the most ordinary network administrator, he is simply grateful to Cisco, after all, it has helped him to leave the noise of a dozen computer fans!

Idle is idle, and Larol began to study this novelty.

The router is very exquisitely made, its white metal casing alone is very beautiful, and the designer obviously has a strong ingenuity, very considerate to set different colors to the plug port on the back of the machine. Yellow is computer access, blue is access to the Internet, and with such a clear design, even the most uninitiated person will use it.

The main thing that intrigued Larol was the flickering light bulbs on the front of the router.

The meaning of the power light is naturally the most obvious, it means that the router is powered on and is working.

Then there are five light bulbs labeled "1, 2, 3, 4, 5", which means that up to five computers can be connected to this router, and now all five lights are on. Of course, the exchange's computers work 24 hours a day, and it has nothing to do with the opening and closing of the stock market.

Then, there are the other three small lights that represent the work.

Laroll is well aware that the faster these three lights flash, the more it means that a lot of information is coming into the network.

Now, because the market has closed after all, and it's already early in the morning, even those financial analysts who stay up late at every turn rarely continue to surf the Internet. So, at this moment, all three lights are almost completely off, and only occasionally flicker.

"Well, when is such a job a head......"

The bored Larol complained again, no matter how comfortable the chair was, there were times when he sat down with a pain in his back, and seeing that it was early in the morning, he got up and walked around the spacious and cramped computer room.

There are dozens of business computers produced by IBM, and the price of each one is enough to make Larol vomit blood to buy it, but this is normal, and the quality of the dedicated servers for the stock exchange cannot be lower.

Extremely bored, he walked to the door, and he looked into the corner.

It is a surveillance probe, and the captured footage is transmitted directly to the monitoring room, and the video tape is tirelessly erased repeatedly. In fact, Larol is very disgusted with the pervasive behavior of the exchange, and it is also a loss that the management has completely caught up with the trend, and even the monitoring room is connected to the network.

Could this be the prototype of the future of work?

Larol couldn't help but think a little cranky, although he is not a stockbroker, but after all, he is also a person who works on the exchange, and the biggest impact that keeping an eye on the stock market trend will have on people is to have a sense of the future development model of society. Although Larol is a layman, he also knows it well.

For example, among the companies that will be listed tomorrow is the famous Microsoft.

LaRore has been following Microsoft for a long time, and he is well aware that countless shareholders across the country are eagerly awaiting its listing. Some time ago, when Microsoft's IPO was successful for the first time, even the Wall Street Journal reported on the situation in detail.

Initial public offering is the most important thing a company can experience, and for some ordinary investment companies, helping a company IPO is also the best proof that it has become a strong player in the industry.

The offering price is $21, which is the valuation made for Microsoft by the CPAs of the related investment companies after a long period of work. All shareholders of the company will each share a number of shares, and the shares worth $2 million, accounting for 15% of the total share capital, will be sold to the public. When all these shares are sold, even if they are only sold at the issue price, Microsoft will immediately receive $42 million in funds and give all shareholders who bought the shares a share of the 15% share of the share of the shares.

Do you want to buy one?

Of course.

Speaking of which, there is one thing that stands out in particular.

As we all know, a company needs to publish a list of shareholders and executives to the public before going public. After all, if a company doesn't even tell the public, how can it expect investors to buy its shares with confidence?

So, of course, Microsoft did the same.

The company's largest shareholder is naturally Bill Gates.

But to Laroll's consternation, the company's second-largest shareholder was not the other founder he thought he thought he had, Paul Allen, but a name named Alice Wong.

To be honest, LaRol doesn't have much of an impression, and although he keeps the Wall Street Journal on a daily, daily, daily basis, and subscribes to many financial newspapers and magazines, he's pretty sure he's never heard of the name.

With such a large degree of shareholder change, when did Microsoft happen!?

This is a question that Larol can only keep in mind for the time being. After all, Microsoft hadn't completed its IPO yet, and as an ordinary company, it was certainly not obliged to announce high-level changes to the public, and ordinary people certainly wouldn't be interested in who the boss of a non-listed company was.

Every day, every night, when he was on duty alone, LaRol had to think like this. At this point, when he was almost relaxed, he lazily returned to his seat.

Next, do you doze off again, or doze off again, or doze off again?

The important thing is repeated three times, because Larol is really sleepy.

God, it's not torture to wait all night after routine server maintenance!?

Thinking of this, Laroll's sleepiness was dispelled by depression and frustration, and as soon as he sat down, he stood up again and began to walk around the computer room again......

Get up......

Come......

"Huh?"

Larolle stopped suddenly.

As if Spider-Man was pulling at him with a sticky thread, he set his sights on a router in the corner.

Yes, a router, although there are two other siblings next to it, but Larol only has his eye on this one.

Its work lights were flickering wildly.

"What the hell?"

Muttering, Larol walked up to the router: "It's early in the morning, is there anyone still using the Internet?"

This shouldn't be, Larol has been working on the exchange for two years, and this router has been in the computer room since October last year.

"Let me think about it, let me think about it, what is the principle of the router?"

Squatting in front of the router that flashed non-stop, Larol muttered: "Sending packets between multiple IP addresses and selecting the best path can also accommodate non-stop types of protocol ......"

So now the situation is obvious, that someone is entering data into the NASDAQ exchange's servers, and it is a very large amount of data, otherwise these three lights will not flash like everlasting lights.

"And it's a server-specific ......"

Thinking about it, Laroll's tired head began to come back to his senses.

"In the middle of the night, when no one is supposed to be using the computer inside the exchange...... Suddenly, someone is transmitting data to a specific server in large quantities......"

Sleepy, so sleepy, Larolle realized in a trance that he seemed to have forgotten to drink coffee.

"Well, well, probably the analytics department is preparing for tomorrow's IPO. Financial analysts, staying up late at every turn, it's really tiring......"

Muttering like this, he lay down on the spot and fell asleep. (To be continued.) )