The Goddess Shines on America

　　 The sun and the moon flew like an arrow, and the time flew like an arrow. For the whole of the end of 1986 and the beginning of 1987, too many things were happening. While Alice has been preparing for investment in Japan, the changing world is constantly performing wonderful scenes.

　　 Just like at the end of last year, when Alice arrived at Eaton for only two months, Queen Elizabeth of England visited Hong Kong for the second time. You must know that the Sino-British Joint Declaration was signed as early as the end of 1984. When you are still in your own turf, come and visit more. Presumably any leader will do the same.

　　 At the same time at China University 6, the high-tech research exhibition program, the "863" program, was also officially launched. The outline identified 15 themed 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. It can be said to be the beginning of the country's true modernization.

　　 Furthermore, in the beautiful March of 1987, not long after Alice returned to school, the Chinese and Portuguese governments initialed a joint statement on the Macau issue. The statement confirms that the Chinese government will resume the exercise of sovereignty over Macau on December 2, 1999. When the announcement was made, Alice, who had just finished class, didn't even know that James had sent an email full of information to her e-mail box, and didn't see it until before going to bed at night.

　　 Of course, while the international political situation is constantly performing wonderful scenes, e-mails reporting on work will also be sent to Alice's mailbox as always and without interruption. The fifteen-year-old girl is not as busy as ordinary peers can imagine because of the relationship with so many companies.

　　 If you want to say which type of mail has the largest number, it must come from Microsoft. It is precisely by virtue of the increasing Internet infrastructure and hardware equipment purchased from Cisco that Alice's research and guidance work has realized remote networking ahead of countless companies.

　　 At every certain moment of every day, Howard, her research assistant at Microsoft's headquarters in Redmond, will summarize all the progress of the day and the problems encountered during the period into a single email. Then, in less than an hour on average, Alice will effectively send back the next step instructions and solutions to the problem. As time goes by, I believe that if you print out all the emails you have exchanged with each other, it will be no problem to print a whole thick book.

　　 And when the timeline enters March, Cisco’s business has also undergone new changes. The main task at present is the sale of firewall equipment that has been studied for a long time.

Of course, the company will not only promote this product to the Pentagon. In fact, it is precisely because of the "Exchange Gate" incident in March last year that m is equivalent to a wonderful advertisement for Cisco in advance, which has made corporate institutions all over the world. , Government departments have realized the importance of network security. So, in early March, when Cisco announced that the firewall was about to be sold, Alice immediately received a special email, which clearly stated the situation after that: the company phone had been blown up.

　　 Then, when March was about to end and the official sales were three days away, Alice received another e-mail that made her happy.

　　 Order list.

　　 The first order was of course the Pentagon, and then the Capitol and the White House, the FBI, the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency, the Homeland Security Agency and other prominent agencies. It should be noted that when the computer network became civilian, the predecessor "Arpanet" was established for the purpose of militarization. This entire batch of orders from Washington said that they were the first real users of the computer network. Over.

　　From the Pentagon, to Congress, to the White House, to, to sa...Washington is the most core area of ​​American politics, and countless politicians have a complicated and closed social circle. It is not difficult for these people to learn that Alice is working on the firewall. From the Minister of Defense to the President, from the President to the Speakers of the Houses of Representatives and the heads of relevant special agencies, some problems can be solved with one word.

　　 Then the question is: how much process does it need to go through?

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

　　 But, all this

It has nothing to do with Alice.

　　Because this is all within the circle of those politicians.

Anyway, Cisco’s current market position lies here, the first in the industry, and Lucent Technologies, which currently ranks second, is at least one third worse than the former in terms of product performance. The ghost knows that the developed firewall can be worse than Cisco. How far.

　　 And the objective situation now is still a seller's market. Affected by the "exchange gate" incident and hacking incidents in recent months, Washington, with the Pentagon, is in urgent need of a firewall, not Cisco desperately wanting the firewall to be sold.

　　 The most important advantage lies here, so Alice doesn’t even bother to pay a bribe to Donimick Fryer or even Vice President Bush Sr. Let’s wait for the order to come!

　　 So, the order really came here.

　　 This is just this batch of orders.

　　 Alice has analyzed the market situation early, but it has always been the case, that is, small businesses don’t need firewalls at all, because very few people will hack them in their spare time. So, since everyone who needs to buy a firewall is a large and medium-sized enterprise, how to determine the price of the product?

　　 Router, two thousand dollars a set.

　　 Switch, three thousand dollars each.

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

　　 cost?

　　 Oh, all three of them are similar.

　　 In the email sent to Alice, in addition to the batch from Washington, there was a long list of large and medium-sized companies from all over the country. You know, the "exchange gate" incident is tantamount to giving the parents of companies around the world a heart. Therefore, when Cisco announced a few months ago that it had begun researching firewalls, and now it is finally going to sell, the wave of ordering is completely blocked. Can't stop it, of course no one will stop it.

　　 "Is this a posture to make me five hundred million yuan?"

　　 Alice glanced at the statistics, not particularly surprised by the turnover, but staring at the endless list of companies, her eyes were almost gone.

　　 "And it looks like...there is no foreign company yet."

　　 This is a very important point. After all, it is only a day or two after the news conference at this time. These are the first batch of subscribers. It is not easy for users in the European and American markets to 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 wondered while staring at the computer screen.

　　 A unit of 10,000 US dollars is enough for an ordinary small and medium-sized enterprise, and a medium-sized enterprise with more than 300 to 500 people needs three to five units. Of course, this is all in general terms, because the amount of network usage and security needs of enterprises are not absolutely proportional to the number of people, and Alice has not had time to divide the firewall into multiple models.

　　Because a firewall is a security protocol system after all, performance and quality are the top priorities, unlike routers and switches. For many large companies that are not bad for money, "although" it is a full ten times more expensive, but "safer" many similar products, they will definitely choose the more expensive one.

　　 "Spend money for peace of mind, this is the best long-term fishing for big fish. Um... Then what price should I set for the next one?"

　　At this moment, when the first batch of firewalls have not been sold to pre-order customers, Alice has already begun to imagine the price of the second batch!

"Well, patch the seventh, the fifteenth, and the eighteenth... No, that would be a bit tricky. Patch the fourth, twenty-ninth, and fifty-fifth protocols. The second-generation firewall has increased security tenfold, but the price is only 30,000 U.S. dollars. It is high-quality and inexpensive. Come buy it.

　　 When the last slogan was squeezed out, someone really didn't blush at all!

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

　　Because the security is increased tenfold!

It doesn’t matter anymore. Alice looks at her watch. It’s 4:30 in the afternoon, and it’s 4:30 in the afternoon on the last day of March. So many companies under its umbrella should also report statistics.

　　 "Cici Cici has anyone?"

　　There seems to be no one in the room, of course, Alice frowned, and when she stood up, the door of the room happened to open. A short girl stood at the door, but it was Mai Mi.

　　 "Do you want to drink tea?"

　　 "Just a glass of West Lake Longjing, thank you!"

　　Mumi chuckled and walked into the room: "Then I can make you a cup of Coke? Or just make a cup of chocolate milk tea."

　　 Alice ignored those, instead staring at the pantyhose on Wu Mi's legs, and muttered: "It's ugly, it's ugly, why don't you **** Eaton tell us to wear jeans?"

　　Mumi gave her a brain jump: "What about the question, Alice, I will make you a cup of aspirin solution casually, what do you think?"

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

　　Muya immediately made the appearance of looking for things everywhere: "Where is the medicine bottle? Where is the medicine bottle? Someone should take medicine, where's the medicine bottle?"

　　 "Hmph, I have all eaten the medicine long ago, dear, you'd better make me a glass of West Lake Longjing"

　　 As he said, someone sat back on the chair lightly. It took only a minute before and after the new mail arrived. To be continued.