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First, on September 21, just as Alice and her friends were flying to Shanghai, a huge earthquake struck Mexico that killed thousands of people. So when everyone returned home, they found that there were suddenly a lot of Mexicans on the streets of Los Angeles, and they marched in groups in the streets, hoping that the plight of their compatriots back home would be sympathetic to more people.

However, Alice was very happy personally, and the news from Chinatown said that it was on that day that the Shengli Oilfield discovered an enriched and high-yield oil-bearing area, and the relevant content was published in the People's Daily, which is really gratifying and congratulatory, and it is worth celebrating the whole country, oh yes.

International relations are also full of turmoil, with various incidents occurring one after another. As recently as October, the North Atlantic Congress 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 would be put into the international market to undertake the business of launching satellites for domestic and foreign users.

Alice is silently following the news, but she has not forgotten the development of her own career. In fact, there have been so many things in the past few months that it can really tire people into the rhythm of a dog.

The cooperation project between Microsoft and IBM began, and it was precisely because of the early development of Alice's Cisco that Microsoft was actually in a completely passive position when undertaking this project. IBM's Sima Zhao's heart is well known, and it is clear that it is to occupy a well-deserved dominant position in cooperation and reap the maximum amount of benefits.

It's just that this is a big collaboration that Microsoft can't refuse, so Alice has to take action, and for some time, she has to receive at least one email a day from Microsoft, 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 comeder is a simple work report, she will be concise and to the point, and point out the direction of the next step; if the content is a statement of difficult problems, it will be simpler, and the corresponding solutions will inevitably be sent to the corresponding mailbox before dawn, without a delay.

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

That's what he said.

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

Anyway, the company is developing smoothly along the historical trajectory, and the listing is expected to arrive, and it has brought it out two years ahead of schedule. Alice sometimes mutters 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 also catches up, she seems to be able to help Gates kill this problem in advance.

After all, Microsoft has almost always positioned its products in the enterprise group, specifically for the operating system of the computers used as servers, but a big fat shortage can definitely make the company's stock price increase and rise. Even if you can't fight the revolutionary changes of win-95, it's enough for Alice to get tens of millions of dividends every month.

So, the next step is to see if Cisco is powerful.

For some time now, Mr. and Mrs. Bossak have been happily working in their positions, a technical director, a customer service director, and a 9-to-8 working day as programmers. Although there is a large-scale loss of equity, after the work pressure is lightened, every day is easy.

Everyone is satisfied with this situation, because Alice has long known that in addition to the great ideal of "technology to change society", the immediate goal of the couple is only to get rid of poverty. Otherwise, why was it that when they were kicked out of the company in the late eighties, they never bought Cisco shares again after they left with hundreds of millions of dollars worth of shares?

At the same time, Cisco's second round of recruitment expansion has also begun, as the sales business gradually spreads to the corners of the entire 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 in full force.

A few days ago, Lucent Technology, which has the support of Bell Labs, played a trick and relied on making the program deliberately crash to obtain key technologies from the patch, but unfortunately it was absorbed by the patent shield built by Alice instantly. However, after all, they are also capable of doing reverse research and development, and 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, and they can circle the earth twice~

It's such a competitive product.

Cisco's root market is in California, and when Alice set the company's marketing strategy, the Bosses were asked to start around that. After all, as the seat of Silicon Valley, California, which has a GDP equal to the world's seventh-largest economy once it becomes independent in the 21st century, is far more valuable than any other state in the country.

So, when Cisco focused on California and took care of the entire West Coast and was expanding to the East Coast, Lucent's strategy had to be different.

In the face of the aggressiveness of the "industry old-timers", Lucent chose to focus on the central region and strive to expand to the east coast. After all, New Jersey, where the company is headquartered, is a state on the Atlantic coast of the United States, and this choice is like Cisco's base in California and the West Coast, and the geographical advantage will always exist before the arrival of the Internet economy.

Other related small businesses have also been established, and the most important thing in Silicon Valley is the garage company, and in the face of Lucent, the largest guy in the new rival, Alice's approach is to immediately make a new generation of routers.

The iOS system that comes with the hardware is more streamlined, and the source code is more efficient with the CPU, while the price has not changed at all, and it is still the standard of $2,000.

So the question is, an iPhone and an iPhone 4s, with the same price and different efficiency, which one will customers want more?

For enterprises that are already buyers of Cisco routers, of course, they will not immediately change for the sake of exchange, but when they expand in scale and want to buy products again, of course, they will target the "iPhone 4S" with the unchanged price of Cisco. For new customers in new markets, compared with Lucent's "iPhone", which is also cost-effective, how can there be any reason not to buy Cisco's "iPhone4S"?

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

Alice can fully imagine what the boss of Lucent Technology will look like.

Well, congratulations, celebrate with a bottle of Sprite that is 85 years old.

But as the saying goes, since even the East Coast of New Jersey has people doing it, the active period of the Internet hardware market has naturally arrived. Market research in early December revealed that at least 10 new companies were being formed across Silicon Valley with the aim of "disrupting" Cisco's current "empire."

To put it bluntly, when you see a cake somewhere, everyone wants to take a bite.

These things are easy to do, and even if a competitor does come to power, it will take time for him to become a threat. What's more, Alice knows very well how Cisco built its "Cisco empire", isn't it just to buy most of its competitors?

But when IBM comes back to the fore, things get a little trickier.

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

So, in late November, when Cisco's second-generation router was first introduced, a business letter from IBM arrived. The other party clearly wants to cooperate with Cisco to develop products in this field.

Ellie refused without hesitation.

Just kidding, isn't it just bullying the new company for its small scale and low background, and wants to play the same game as Microsoft?

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

Hey, who's that, the kid in the blue uniform, do you know what a switch is?

Do you know what an IP phone is? It's not an IQ phone, it's an IP phone, and an IP business conference call system, have you ever heard of it?

Haven't heard of it?

I haven't heard of cooperation, and my mother doesn't have time to play enlightenment games with rookies!

Well, that's the truth.

Don't look at IBM as the leader of commercial computers, but in the field of Internet hardware, it is not qualified to cooperate with Alice at all. Although she has a strong background and strong research and development capabilities, it is impossible to compare with Alice's talent, let alone her prophetic advantages.

Of course, Alice doesn't care what the consequences of rejecting IBM will be, because it won't cause any consequences either. Throughout Cisco's history, Cisco's product line is so complex that it's a forest of species. In other words, Cisco will have a lot of competitors in every field, and it is completely because there is more debt and lice and no itching!

And a company that started with commercial computers and just wants to make a profit in this market, even if it is a dignified blue giant, the threat is really limited.

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

That's right, of course, the Cisco system in later generations is still a government contractor, otherwise what foundation do you think the prism door is built on?

In 1992, Senator and former U.S. Vice President Al Gore introduced the U.S. Information Superhighway Act. In September 1993, the US Government announced the implementation of a new high-tech plan -- the national information infrastructure, which aimed to build a superhighway in the information age -- that is, an information superhighway -- with the Internet as the prototype, so that all Americans could easily share massive information resources.

The most direct beneficiary of this proposal is, of course, the entire Internet community, which is why the 90s were the golden age of the IT industry. And as the biggest beneficiary of this plan, it is not surprising that Cisco can become the most valuable company in the 90s, with a peak value of $550 billion.

The year 1992 is the original history.

Then, when the current Cisco has achieved a monthly net profit of millions and is selling products in California, the original 1992 will definitely be advanced.

Rather than competing with the chaotic peers in the market, Alice set her sights on Washington early on.

Although, now is not the time. (To be continued.) )