Too much was happening throughout the last quarter of 1985.

First of all, on September 21, when Alice had just flew to Shanghai with her friends, a huge earthquake occurred in Mexico, causing thousands of people to die. So when everyone returned to China, they found that many Mexicans suddenly appeared on the streets of Los Angeles, and they marched on the streets in hundreds, hoping that the experiences of their compatriots in their hometown would be sympathized by more people.

However, Alice was very happy. Chinatown received news that it was on that day that Shengli Oilfield discovered a rich and high-yield oil-containing area. The relevant content was published in the People's Daily. It was really gratifying and worth celebrating the whole country. Oh yes.

International relations are also constantly in the process, and various events have occurred one after another. In October, the North Atlantic Congress conditionally recognized the "Star Wars" plan. At the same time, the Chinese government also announced that the Long March 2 and Long March 3 carrier rockets developed by it will be put into the international market and undertake satellite launch services at home and abroad. In November, the monument to its first atomic bomb detonation test site was finally completed, which is really gratifying and deserves 32 praises from Chinese people around the world.

Alice is silently following the news, but she has not forgotten the development of her career. In fact, the number of things in the past few months can really make people tired.

The cooperation project between Microsoft and ibm has begun, and it is precisely because Alice's Cisco has developed early that Microsoft was actually in a completely passive position when taking on this project. Everyone knows that ibm's Sima Zhao's heart is clearly the one that wants to occupy a well-deserved dominant position in cooperation and gain the most profit.

But this is another big cooperation that Microsoft cannot refuse, so Alice has to take action. For some time, she will receive at least an email from Microsoft every day, full of problems that need to be solved at the current stage.

The girl's reply is really very efficient. If the content of the visitor is a simple work report, she will be concise and straight to the center to point out the next work direction; if the content of the visitor is a statement of difficult problems, it will be even simpler. The corresponding solution will inevitably be sent to the corresponding email before dawn, and there has never been a delay.

By the way, just in October, Gates hung up a phone call again mysteriously.

That's what he said.

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

It's the general idea. Anyway, this company is developing smoothly along the historical trajectory, with the expected listing coming, and it also brought Windows NT out two years in advance. Alice sometimes mutters in private. Although it is estimated that it will take four or five years of hard research and development to make it, if Cisco's development keeps up with the ride-sharing, she seems to be able to help Gates kill this problem in advance.

After all, Microsoft has almost always positioned its product customers in the enterprise group, specifically for operating systems used as servers of computers. However, a huge amount of fat can definitely increase the company's stock price and rise. Even if it cannot compete with the revolutionary changes of Win-95, it will be 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, the Posacks have been working happily in their positions. A technical department director and a customer service department director live a working day from 9 to 8 every day for programmers. Although the equity is lost on a large scale, after the work pressure is eased, 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 direct goal of starting a business is just to get rid of poverty. Otherwise, why did they never buy Cisco stocks when they were driven out of the company in the late 1980s in their original history when they cashed out with their shares worth hundreds of millions of dollars?

At the same time, Cisco's second round of enrollment expansion has also begun. As the sales business gradually spread to every corner of the West Coast and gradually took root on the East Coast, the demand for customer service personnel and various technicians is of course increasing day by day.

In addition, after a year and several months of comprehensive development, Cisco's competitors finally began to blossom in full swing.

A few days ago, Lucent Technology, supported by Bell Labs, was trying to make a fool of itself and relied on making the program deliberately collapse to obtain key technologies from the patches. Unfortunately, it was absorbed by the patent shield built by Alice in an instant. However, they were also companies that were capable of reverse research and development. In early November, they launched another type of router.

Lucent brand routers have been leading in sales for 666 consecutive years, selling more than 700 million units a year. They can circle the earth twice~

Such a competitive product.

Cisco's fundamental market is in California. As early as when Alice set a market strategy for the company, she asked the Posacks to start around this point. After all, as the location of Silicon Valley, as the location of Silicon Valley, as the world's seventh largest economy, California, once it goes out after the 21st century, is much more valuable than any state in the country.

So, when Cisco puts its main market in California, taking into account the entire West Coast and expanding to the East Coast, Lucent's strategy must be different.

Faced with the aggressiveness of "the old industry predecessors", Lucent's choice is to focus on the central region and strive to expand to the east coast. After all, New Jersey is a state along the central Atlantic coast of the United States. This choice is like Cisco's bases with California and the West Coast. The advantage of geographical advantages will always exist before the arrival of the Internet economy.

Other related small companies have also been established. Silicon Valley has the most lacking garage companies. Facing Lucent, the new rival, Alice, the largest guy, is to make a new generation of routers immediately.

The ios system included with the hardware is more refined, and the source code uses CPU further, but the price has not changed at all, and it is still the standard of $2,000.

So the question is, which one iPhone and one iPhone4s, with the same price and different efficiency, will customers want more?

For companies that are already buyers of Cisco routers, of course they will not change it immediately for the sake of replacement, but when they expand and want to buy products, they will of course aim to target the "iphone4s" whose price has not changed. For new markets and new customers, compared with Lucent's "iphone", which is also cost-effective, how can they not buy Cisco's "iphone4s"?

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

Alice could have imagined what expression the Lucent Technology boss would have.

Well, it’s a great pleasure, let’s celebrate Sprite for 1985.

But as the saying goes, you can see the whole leopard. Since even New Jersey on the East Coast has taken action, the active period of the Internet hardware market has naturally arrived. A market survey report in early December showed that at least ten new companies were established in the entire Silicon Valley area, with the purpose of "subverting" the "preliminary form of empire" created by Cisco.

To put it bluntly, when you see a piece of cake somewhere, everyone wants to share it.

All these things are easy to deal with. Even if the competitors come to power, it will take time to become a threat. Moreover, Alice is very clear about how Cisco built its "Cisco Empire"? Isn't it just to buy most of its competitors?

But when ibm appears again, things get a little tricky.

After all, Blue Giant started out with hardware. Companies that can build commercial computers will not intend to miss the Internet hardware market.

So, in late November, when Cisco's second-generation router was launched, ibm's business letter was sent. The other party's intention was very obvious, and he wanted to cooperate with Cisco to develop products in this field.

Alice refused without hesitation.

Just kidding, isn’t it just bullying the new company’s small scale and low foundation, and wants to play with Microsoft’s tricks?

I need you ibm to teach me how to develop a router?

Hello, who, the boy in blue uniform, knows what a switch is?

Do you know what IP phone is? It’s not an IQ phone, it’s an IP phone, and an IP business conference call system. Have you heard of it?

Haven't heard of it?

I have never heard of working together. I don’t have time to play enlightenment games with a rookie!

Well, that's the reason.

Although ibm is the boss of commercial computers, it has no qualifications to cooperate with Alice in the field of Internet hardware. Although it has strong background and strong R&D capabilities, it is impossible to surpass Alice's talent, let alone her prophet's advantages.

Of course, Alice doesn’t care about the consequences of rejecting ibm, because it can’t do any consequences. Looking at Cisco’s development history, its product line is so complex that it is not an exaggeration to say it is a forest of many species. In other words, Cisco has many competitors in every field, and it’s just that there are too many debts and no worries about lice!

A company that started out with commercial computers and just wanted to make a fortune in this market, even a blue giant, had limited threats.

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

That's right, the Cisco system in later generations was of course still a government contractor, otherwise, what basis did the prism door be built on?

In 1992, Senator and former Vice President Al Gore proposed the U.S. Information Highway Act. In September 1993, the U.S. government announced the implementation of a new high-tech plan - the national information infrastructure, aiming to build highways in the information age, namely information highways, so that all Americans can easily share massive information resources.

As the most direct beneficiary of this proposal, of course, is the entire Internet industry. This is why the 1990s was the golden period of the IT industry. And as the biggest beneficiary of this plan, it is not surprising that Cisco became the highest-cap company in the 1990s, with a peak quota of 550 billion US dollars.

1992 is the original history.

So, when Cisco has achieved a monthly net profit of millions and has sold its products in California, the original 1992 will definitely be ahead of schedule.

Compared with the messy competitions of peers in the market, Alice has set her target on Washington early on.

Although, now is not the time.

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Chapter completed!