The sun and the moon pass by, and time passes by. There are so many things happening throughout the year of 1986 and early 1987. While Alice has been preparing for investment in Japan, the changing world is constantly performing wonderful and wonderful shows.

Just like at the end of last year, when Alice had just arrived in Eton for two months, Queen Elizabeth in England visited Hong Kong for the second time. You should know that the Sino-English joint statement was signed as early as the end of 1984. When it was still his own territory, I believe any leader would do this.

At the same time, at the China University of 6, the high-tech research exhibition plan, namely the "863" plan, was officially launched. The outline has identified 15 theme projects in 7 fields, as the focus of China's future high-tech development. It involves the fields of biotechnology, aerospace technology, information technology, laser technology, automation technology, energy technology, marine technology and new materials, which can be said to be the beginning of the country's true modernization.

Furthermore, in March 1987, not long after Alice returned to school, the Chinese and Portuguese governments signed a joint statement on the Macau issue. The statement confirmed that the Chinese government would resume exercise of sovereignty over Macau on December 2, 1999. When the statement was made, Alice, who had just finished class, didn't know that James had sent a full amount of information to her email address and did not see it until she went to bed at night.

Of course, while the international political situation is constantly performing wonderful scenes, emails reporting work continue to go to Alice's mailbox as always. A fifteen-year-old girl is involved in so many companies, which is not as busy as ordinary peers can imagine.

If you want to say which type of email has the largest number, it must have come from Microsoft. It is precisely because of the increasing Internet infrastructure and the hardware equipment purchased from Cisco that Alice's research and directing work has been realized in advance by countless companies.

At every certain moment of the day, Howard, an assistant to the research department at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, would summarize all the progress of the day and the problems encountered during the day into an email. Then, in an hour on average, Alice would efficiently send back the next guidance and solutions to the problem. Over time, I believe that if all the emails of communication are printed out, there would be no problem printing a whole thick book.

When the timeline entered March, Cisco's business also changed new. The most important task at present is the sales of firewall equipment that has been researching for a long time.

Of course, the company will not only sell this product to the Pentagon. In fact, it is precisely because of the "exchange gate" incident last March that m was the first to launch a wonderful advertisement for Cisco in advance, allowing corporate and government departments around the world to experience the importance of network security. So, in early March, when Cisco made a statement that the firewall was about to be sold, Alice immediately received a special email, which clearly explained the situation after that: the company's phone number had been blown up.

Then, when March was about to end and three days before the official sales, Alice received another email that made her happy.

Order Directory.

The first order was of course from the Pentagon, followed by the Capitol and the White House, the FBI, the CIA, the National Security Agency, the Homeland Security Bureau and other well-known agencies. It should be noted that before the computer network was civilized, the "Apa.com" was the predecessor, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they were the first real users of the computer network.

From the Pentagon, to Congress, to the White House, to SA... Washington is the most core area of ​​American politics, and countless politicians have a complex and closed circle of communication. It is not difficult for these people to learn that Alice is studying a firewall. From the Secretary of Defense to the President, from the President to the Speakers of the House and the Heads of relevant special agencies, one message can solve some problems.

Then the question is: How much process does it take to go through in the meantime?

The government’s money comes from taxpayers and cannot be spent randomly. The expenditure of large funds often requires coordination and consultation between various departments, which is a very complicated issue. From a dramatic perspective, Hollywood directors can even make a whole movie or even a series of movies for a certain expenditure!

However, this has nothing to do with Alice.

Because, this is all about the politicians themselves.

Anyway, Cisco's current market position is here. Lucent Technology, which is the first in the industry and currently ranked second, is at least one-third worse than the former in product performance alone. Who knows how far the firewall developed can be inferior to Cisco.

And the current objective situation is still the seller's market. Affected by the "exchange gate" incident and hacking incidents in recent months, Washington, based on the Pentagon, is urgently in need of a firewall, rather than Cisco's urgent need for a firewall to be sold.

The main advantage is here, so Alice is too lazy to even bribe Donimick Folly, and even bribe Vice President Bush, and we just wait for the order to come to our door!

So, the order really came to the door.

This is just this batch of orders.

Alice has analyzed the market situation early on, but in fact, this has always been the case. Small businesses do not need firewalls, because few people will hack them in a hurry. So, since everyone who needs to buy firewalls is large and medium-sized enterprises, how should the price of the product be determined?

Router, two thousand dollars per unit.

Switch, three thousand dollars per unit.

Well, then the price of the firewall is set at $10,000.

cost?

Oh, they are almost the same.

In the emails given to Alice, in addition to the batch in Washington, there is also a long list of large and medium-sized enterprises from all over the country. You should know that the "exchange gate" incident is equivalent to giving entrepreneurs around the world a care. Therefore, when Cisco announced that it would start researching a firewall a few months ago, and now it is finally going to be sold, the wave of ordering is completely unstoppable, and of course no one will stop it.

"Is this going to make me earn 500 million?"

Alice glanced at the statistics and was not particularly surprised by the transaction volume, but her eyes were almost dazzled when she stared at this long list of endless companies.

"And it seems... there are no foreign companies."

This is a very important point. After all, it has only been a day or two since the press conference. These are the first batch of booking users. It is not easy to make users in the European and American markets react.

"So, if you count them, you should be able to make a billion dollars in about two years?"

At this moment, sitting at the writing desk in her single dormitory, Alice stared at the computer screen while thinking.

One unit is 10,000 US dollars, which is enough for an ordinary small and medium-sized enterprise, while a medium-sized enterprise with a population of 300 to 500 will need three to five units. Of course, this is all general, because the number of networks used by enterprises and security needs are not absolutely proportional to the number of people, and Alice has not yet had time to divide the firewall into multiple models.

Because firewalls are security protocol systems after all, performance and quality are the top priority, which is different from routers and switches. For many large enterprises that are not short of money, although "although" is ten times more expensive, they are "safer" many similar products, and they will definitely choose the more expensive one.

"Spend money to be at ease, this is the one that can catch big fish for a long time. Well... So what price should you set for the next one?"

Now, before the first batch of firewalls were actually sold to the booking customers, Alice had already begun to imagine the price of the second batch!

"Well, patch the seventh, fifteenth, and eighteenth... No, that's too tricky. Patch the fourth, twenty-nineth, and fifty-five agreements. The second-generation firewall has ten times more security, but the price is only 30,000 US dollars, which is good and cheap. Come and buy it."

When the last slogan was shouted out with a pinched voice, someone really didn't blush at all!

Because, she can also set it to 50,000, right?

Because the multiple of security improvement is ten times!

That doesn't matter anymore. Alice looked at her watch. It was 4:30 pm now, and it was 4:30 pm on the last day of March. Since it was the end of the month and it was this time again, so many companies under her own company should report the statistics.

"Is there anyone in Xixi?"

There seemed to be no one in the room, so that was of course. Alice frowned, but just as she stood up, the door just opened, and a short girl stood at the door, but it was Wuya.

"Do you want to drink tea?"

"Any cup of West Lake Longjing, thank you!"

Wuya walked into the house with a chuckling: "Then will I make you a cup of Coke? Or just make a cup of chocolate milk tea."

Alice ignored those things, stared at the pantyhose on Maiya's legs and muttered: "It's so ugly that it's so ugly that it's so ugly. Why don't Eton ask us to wear denim?"

Maiya gave her a head: "What about the question, Alice, I will make you a cup of aspirin solution, what do you think?"

Alice put her hands on her hips and shouted, "I think it's a good idea!"

Wuya immediately looked like she was looking for something everywhere: "Where is the medicine bottle? Where is the medicine bottle? Someone should take the medicine, what about the medicine bottle?"

"Hmph, I've eaten all the medicine long ago. My dear, you'd better make me a cup of West Lake Longjing honestly."

As he said that, someone sat back on the chair with a light movement. In just one minute, the new email was barely arrived. To be continued.
Chapter completed!