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Making movies is just a small part of serving his huge industry, and he instructed Cheng Long in the outline, and after confirming that the other party understood it in place, Tang Huan ignored it and continued to do his business. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

On November 29, the United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution 678, which required Iraq to comply with its previous relevant resolutions, withdraw immediately and unconditionally, and restore its sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity - with a specific deadline of 15 January 1991, and authorized "the implementation of Resolution 660 by all necessary means".

In other words, the United Nations gave Iraq an ultimatum and, in a diplomatic language, authorized the use of force.

At the same time, the 34-nation alliance that supported the Kuwaiti royal family finally took shape, and the richest man completed his mission, which can be regarded as worthy of the benefits that the Kuwaiti royal family gave him.

In fact, taking the opportunity to move around, Tang Huan also did a lot of "private work" for his high-tech industry.

The personal computer has evolved from the 8-bit era in the 1970s, to the 16-bit era in the 1980s, and now to the 32-bit era.

It is estimated that at this stage, the number of personal computers in operation in the world has exceeded 100 million. In terms of annual sales, the United States is the number one market, with annual sales of nearly 10 million units and sales of about $25 billion, while Japan ranks second, with annual sales of more than 2 million units and sales of more than $5.9 billion.

In third place, the market situation in Europe is relatively complicated. Affected by many factors such as the economy, technology, and open environment, the imbalance in the distribution of the market is very prominent, and two-thirds of the market share is concentrated in Western Europe, and is further concentrated in Germany, Britain, France, and Italy, accounting for almost 70 percent; on the other hand, in Eastern Europe, the annual sales of personal computers are less than 1 million units, of which about 300,000 units are in Poland, about 280,000 in Czechoslovakia, and about 100,000 in Hungary.

Although the annual sales volume of personal computers in the entire European market is close to that of the United States, the profits contributed are not as good as those of the Japanese market, because the American market and the Japanese market have eliminated the 16-bit architecture products of the Intel80286 level, and the 32-bit architecture products of the Intel80486 level have become the mainstream, while the European market is still flooded with a large number of cheap personal computers. A PC toy priced at around $300 is enough to illustrate the problem.

However, compared with the relatively closed pattern formed by the Fangyuan personal computer compatible machine manufactured by the Japanese manufacturer, which dominated the domestic market, the European countries have ceded this position to the American manufacturer -- in the era of the 8-bit architecture, the European personal computer companies can be described as a hundred schools of thought, but after the transition to the 16-bit architecture era, most of them have been eliminated; in the current 32-bit architecture era, they are basically dead.

The next development direction of personal computers, in addition to continuing to improve performance vertically to support multimedia and other applications, will also evolve horizontally into Internet terminals. This clearly gives a Europe that aspires to transform into an all-encompassing alliance a new chance to catch up.

When Tang Huan was holding talks with the leaders of European countries, he lobbied for many cooperation projects in a factual and reasonable manner -- German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and French President François Mitterrand all communicated well, but on the British side, they had to stop, and the political arena here changed because of the change of the sky.

Margaret Thatcher, who was elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for three consecutive terms, was dispopularized by the introduction of a new tax system at the local level, the poll tax, and the further loss of core support from the middle class, business and business circles due to erroneous measures to deal with economic problems such as raising interest rates to 15%, coupled with the increasingly serious political ~ political differences on the issue of European integration, which finally led to the resignation of the general trend and the transfer of the position to John Major, the Chancellor of the Exchequer in his cabinet.

The British Prime Minister, who had just been appointed from Buckingham Palace, is very busy now, and seems to have a cold attitude towards the richest man, so Tang Huan does not take the initiative to make up for it, and simply goes home first and continues to run the IT kingdom on the American side.

After nearly a year of promotion, the concept of the World Wide Web has become so deeply rooted that the media began to circulate that 1990 was the first year of the World Wide Web.

In fact, after so many years of accumulation, the signs that the Internet is about to take off are becoming more and more obvious.

After all, at this stage, the number of personal computers provides sufficient access terminals for the Internet, and on the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Telecom, under the continuous encouragement of Tang Huan, has achieved a maximum speed of 28.8kbps for modems to access the Internet, which has made a clear demonstration for the construction of the network application environment.

At the group's executive meeting, Steve Case, who was almost at the end of the table, as the CEO, passionately introduced the recent operations of AOL, which is constantly burning money.

At this stage, the biggest achievement of AOL is that the number of users has exceeded 1 million in the industry.

With regard to the specific concept of this data indicator, it is necessary to first point out the current way of Internet access.

Originally, in time and space, people are widely known to the way of surfing the Internet, that is, to ensure that they are connected to the Internet, open a web browser, enter the URL, and then freely~ surf freely.

The current way of surfing the Internet is obviously different - when users start the modem and connect to the Internet, they directly enter an online service system like AOL, and the content they surf is provided by it.

That's why subscribers are paying for online services instead of telcos, which have negotiated prices from telcos and leased physical lines.

AOL, the industry-leading user who broke the 1 million mark, refers to this subscriber. It is not difficult to see that it is quite different from the conventional Internet users in the original time and space.

To be more precise, the current online service companies are playing the role of inter_service_provider Internet service providers (ISPs), and the stickiness of subscribers is very large, and the gold content is very direct, and its scale directly affects the income level.

Today, AOL has more than 1 million subscribers, which means that the service fee alone can be worth tens of millions of dollars.

Steve Case, who is only 32 years old this year, dares to think and do, is full of momentum, and even plans to innovate the current monthly package mechanism in order to further win users, that is, to cancel all kinds of time limits, and become after paying the monthly fee, the Internet time is casual, 7x24 hours surfing is no problem, that is, it is the same as the charging method that users are accustomed to after more than ten years of time and space.

When Steve Case, from a huge conference table, asked the Pacific Telecommunications representative from afar to further reduce the cost of the line in the West Coast of the United States, the other party refused in a stern manner -- we have done thorough market research for a long time, and now the price of slow network access for user terminals on the West Coast of the United States is maintained at about two dollars, which is already an ultra-low price for God and Buddha. AOL's growth can't always put its hopes entirely on squeezing communication companies, and we are two companies whose profits are calculated separately.

Among the people present, Steve Case, who was the least qualified and the most unashamed, just shrugged his shoulders after being swept up, and then pulled back the conversation and said, "Of course, I have never slackened in the quality of AOL's own services. ”

"If the monthly subscription time limit is really canceled, then AOL's servers will definitely not be able to cope with the rapidly expanding number of user visits, which will affect the current user experience that everyone is more satisfied with. Tang Huan, who did not occupy Steve Case's side this time, slowly analyzed: "The cards have to be played one by one, and they are all smashed out at one time, which is certainly enjoyable, but what if there are no hole cards available in the follow-up competition? After all, the online service companies that have survived until now have a considerable strength to withstand the price war." AOL's work should be focused on hard work. ”

Similar to other industries, the competition in the US online service market is as fierce as ever, almost all of them have their own areas of expertise, and even have deep funders behind them - at this time, AOL will not have a bright future because of the support of the richest man, but because of the position of the industry leader, the pressure to catch up is extremely great.

Among the online service companies that have become climate at this stage, the oldest is Puserve, a computer services company dating back to 1969, which has been relatively successful in financial services such as financial data collection and consolidation, newspaper data sharing, etc., and in recent years, e-mail, file sharing and other businesses are quite attractive, with 600,000 subscribers.

In third place is Prodigy, with 465,000 subscribers, an online services company founded in 1984 and backed by CBS, Sears, a well-known retailer chain that has also invested in Apple, and IBM.

Prodigy's background also illustrates an interesting phenomenon in the technical architecture of online service companies, that is, the competition between Fangyuan Computer Company and IBM in the computer field has more or less continued to this field -- AOL's back-end servers are all from Fangyuan Computer Company, and the client terminal access devices are all Fangyuan personal computers and their compatible machines; ProDigiy's client terminal access devices are mostly IBM-PS/ 2 and IBM-PC compatible machine, the software is also a similar pattern, Prodigy's BBS and e-mail services, is still very popular.

Another online service company backed by a big tree to enjoy the shade, I have to mention, that is, GENIE, which is funded by General Electric, and its subscribers have also reached the 100,000 level.

In addition to these online service companies, which are inextricably linked to large companies such as Fangyuan Computer, IBM, and General Electric, there is also a category of competitors that focus on providing content services, such as Dow Jones & Co.'s dow_jones_news/Retrieval, which has been operating since 1973 - Dow Jones News/Index, which focuses on providing information on stocks, bonds, options, and so on. As you can imagine, the tariffs aren't usually expensive - prime time peaks at $2.30 per minute, which is almost the price of an hour for the average online service company.

In addition to the weather, stock indexes, ticketing, books, second-hand transactions, virtual communities and other conventional content, with Tang Huan, a big boss, has video games, Hollywood, sports industries, and media investment, providing online games, movies, records, sports events, online radio and other very distinctive and popular content services.

Mr. The richest man convened a high-level meeting this time, and the current industry situation of online services is a focus of attention in Internet issues.

The golden pen in Tang Huan's hand paused lightly on the notebook in front of him. The attendees who noticed this detail, no matter how powerful and radiant they were outside, subconsciously straightened their backs and listened intently.

"I can't stress it enough to get to the consensus that the Internet is a big thing to do, and if we ignore it, it's going to be very difficult for our huge, coordinated fleet to quickly pivot. ”

"The Internet can make us a lot of money, but its natural characteristics - free ~ free and free, we must also remain patient and soberly understand, monopoly advantages and profit grabbing, we need to think carefully, otherwise it is easy to do bad things with good intentions, and half the result. ”

Seeing the thoughtful expressions on the faces of Steve Case and others, Tang Huan relaxed his tone and continued: "In addition to the development achievements including the continuous acceleration of the Internet, the World Wide Web will also have a huge impact on the Internet ecological environment. ”

After the laughter stopped, Tang Huan looked at Steve Keys and pointed: "In addition to lowering tariffs, there are many other effective competitive means to get rid of opponents, and your preference for making AOL constantly upgrade its technology is one of them." AOL's great strides in the graphical user interface are highly commendable. In contrast, those who cling to the DOS operation interface because of the current network bandwidth and access speed are very short-sighted. ”

"A decade ago, it was great to have 4 kilobytes of RAM on a personal computer, but now it's 1,000 times better – 4mb is the mainstream configuration for personal computers. ”

"Network bandwidth and access speed will also follow this development trajectory, and in a few years, those peers who make mistakes in prediction will regret it. ”

"The World Wide Web application is another good opportunity to shake off its rivals, and AOL must accelerate the pace of embracing the World Wide Web. (To be continued.) )