The second week of April was still a busy day for many journalists. The aftermath of last Friday's news www.biquge.info has not subsided, but more content keeps coming, which makes many people have to work overtime and stay up late, but they are always happy.

Popular Electronics, a Seattle-based magazine outlet, has a 28 percent market share on the West Coast of the United States, up from 35 percent just three years ago. However, the decline in market share is not due to poor management, but in just three years, the information technology industry has ushered in a new and rapid development, and professional journals and magazines in the same field have sprung up.

"Zoe, aren't you okay yet?"

As soon as he got to work on Thursday morning, Howard, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper, had just walked into the office when he pushed the door open again and shouted to the newcomer in a corner: "Didn't I say that I would put the manuscript on the table this morning!?"

Outside the transparent office cubicle, a full fifty editors worked together, and hearing Howard's loud voice, a beautiful brown-haired girl stood up in a panic: "I'm sorry, Mr. Howard, I'm a little late today, I'll send you the manuscript right away!"

As soon as she spoke, she was scrambling to dig out her purse, and at this time she had already taken out a thin stack of manuscript paper, and walked quickly into the editor-in-chief's room: "A total of 3,000 words of manuscript, you can review it." ”

Howard didn't say anything, and waved his hand to let Zoe sit directly in front of him: "Close the door." ”

The review process made Zoe nervous, as she had only been with the magazine for only three months. In fact, she only graduated from the Department of Literature three months ago, and she did not go to an Ivy League school, so it can be said that it is a great achievement to be able to get a new position in "Popular Electronics".

Half an hour later, Howard had read through the full text of 3,000 words: "Zoe...... Barnes, you've only found five businesses?"

As if with a bang, Zoe's face turned red: "I'm sorry, Mr. Howard, it's only been less than a week since the Firewall went on sale, and I really don't have any more energy......"

"Moreover, you even ......"

At first, I wanted to say a few words patiently, but Howard's tone was undoubtedly getting faster and faster: "Although it is only less than a week, it has sold more than 10,000 points on the first day alone, and in Redmond in the next city alone, Microsoft and Nintendo have bought a lot of orders, not to mention that "Volkswagen Electronics" itself is one of Cisco's users." Six days, five reports, and there are not the three names I just mentioned...... Zoe Barnes, don't you want to be here any longer!?"

Finally, with a bang, the manuscript with the girl's leather bag sounded loudly, and was slammed on the table by Howard.

Zoe subconsciously covered her mouth: "Ah...... I'm sorry Mr. Howard, I'm sorry I missed such important information, I'll be ...... right away."

"Now, immediately, immediately, while it's still early, hurry up and let me go to Redmond to interview Microsoft and Nintendo! Cisco is such an important customer, and it's so close to us, you can still forget the interview! Get out! If you can't finish it today, don't come back tomorrow! Get out!"

What else could Zoe say, she quickly ran out of the editor-in-chief's office with her hug, and rushed out of the office without even having the time to say hello to a few seniors nearby.

Time waits for no one, because Mass Electronics has too many competitors right now.

Last Friday, the first weekend of April, was the day Cisco Systems Inc. in San Jose launched their new product, Firewall. In addition to specialized magazines and magazines such as Popular Electronics, reporters from the Seattle Daily and the Los Angeles Daily have long been prepared, and even reporters from the Wall Street Journal have been on the scene to get first-hand information about sales.

In fact, this is also quite interesting, if the major telecom operators led by AT&T are developing network infrastructure and are the old men who have created vast land, then companies like Microsoft and Apple, Cisco and Oracle are like those pioneers in the western United States who are not afraid of hardship. And people from all walks of life are already enjoying the benefits that these pioneers have brought to them bit by bit.

At half past nine a.m. on Friday, the exact moment the product goes on sale. Long before this, tens of thousands of old Cisco customers with routers and switches across the country had already sent pre-order orders to Cisco weeks and months in advance.

At just 9:30 a.m., Cisco's new product sales have reached this number, and the money has begun to be remitted from the bank to the company's corporate account, even though the goods have not yet been shipped. This kind of Internet-based, emerging and wonderful way of doing business has made Cisco both a pioneer and the first to benefit, while other companies have a hard time learning from it.

After all, the amount of work to process so many orders at the same time is enough to paralyze the computers and LANs of most enterprises. That is, Cisco, itself is a big bull in the Internet hardware industry, the company's network bandwidth is frighteningly wide, and customers are also users of its products, with the cooperation of each other, in one minute, it has achieved the results that ordinary companies need to make countless calls and accept countless faxes.

In the first minute of its release, the turnover reached tens of millions of dollars, and it was directly used as the headline to make the front page of countless newspapers, and it was only early Saturday morning!

Of course, news about the shutdown of the banking system was also published in the Wall Street Journal at the same time.

"Hello, a ticket to Redmond!"

As soon as he rushed into the passenger station, Zoe Barnes, a young magazine reporter, took out a 100-dollar bill and said to the middle-aged black woman in front of him: "I want the nearest flight!"

The conductor looked at the computer unhurriedly: "Recently...... It's a quarter past ten, young man. ”

"That's it, thank you!"

Of course, the conductor has nothing to worry about, and there is no one in line behind Zoe at this time, she is not in a hurry to operate the computer, and by the way, she glanced at Zoe who was full of anxiety: "Hey, I said little girl, what is it that makes you anxious like that?"

Zoe stroked her long hair a little embarrassed: "This...... I had to rush to that city because of my work......"

Her eyes were drawn to the Seattle Daily News, which the conductor had cut off.

"Hello, can you lend me the newspaper?"

The conductor handed her the ticket: "Of course it's fine, my dear, just take it and see it." ”

Eager to take the ticket and the newspaper, Zoe sat on the chair next to her and looked through it.

The news on the home page links an established giant with a new type of leading enterprise.

"Boeing Buys Cisco Firewalls in Bulk?

The picture shows seven or eight FedEx vans parked in front of Boeing's headquarters in Seattle, where couriers dump their goods. Although the distance is a little far, the photographer cleverly and clearly caught the pattern on the cardboard box, the long and short lines are like artistic radio waves, isn't it the Cisco logo?

"Even Boeing is buying firewalls in large quantities? yes, companies like theirs are the ones who need this kind of product the most, after all, it's a big aircraft manufacturer, maybe I can put it in the story?"

Zoe thought about it with her brain, because it had been many days since the release date of the Firewall, and the statistics had long been old, so the editor-in-chief gave her the task of writing a product evaluation report. After all, hardware products used to maintain network security are as new as routers from three years ago, and too many people want to know what it looks like.

"Ah...... Yes, yes, yes, big mistake, how did I forget this relationship?"

As soon as she thought of Boeing, Zoe, as a newcomer, suddenly discovered another mistake of her own. Whether it's a firewall or any of Cisco's other products, it was invented by Alice Wang, who is also a shareholder of Microsoft. With such an obvious relationship, why didn't I see it, Howard gave a whole week, and she put so much effort into writing five reports, but she could still fall behind Microsoft!?

So, under the surprised gaze of the conductor Saunders, Zoe screamed in extreme annoyance and pulled her hair like crazy!

A similar scenario is happening in many cities across the country, and it's all caused by Cisco launching their new products. While Zoe tugged at her hair in frustration, Wall Street reporters were circling the Citibank building, and it had been going on for days.

The reason is that as early as half past nine in the morning last Friday, at the beginning of the stock market, the servers of their entire bank collapsed!

"Haha, it's so interesting~"

At this time, the noon sun was shining vertically, and just as seven or eight reporters were gathering in front of the bank building to see if they could catch a few suitable people to ask some questions, a handsome young man stood in front of the newsstand on the opposite street. As he read the day's issue of the Wall Street Journal, he gloated at the bank's top executives, who until now had been busy apologizing to the public.

"Well, it's a pity I couldn't foresee this, if I had done some short-selling business when Citi went wrong, maybe I would have been a millionaire!"

After saying this, Jordan Belfort, who had just found a job at Rothschild Bank, walked briskly to Starbucks on the other side of the street. (To be continued.) )