The Goddess Shines on America

　　 The second week of April is still a busy day for many reporters. Last Friday’s news hasn’t faded yet, and more content has continued to follow. This makes many people have to work overtime and stay up late at work, but they always enjoy it.

　　 "Popular Electronics" is a magazine and media headquartered in Seattle. Its market share on the west coast of the United States is 28%, and just three years ago, this number was still 35%. However, the decline in share is not due to poor management, but in just three short years, the information technology industry has ushered in a new rapid development, and professional journals and magazines in the same field have also sprung up.

　　 "Zoe, are you okay?"

As soon as he went to work early on Thursday morning, the newspaper editor Howard just walked into the office for a minute, he pushed the door open again, and shouted at the newcomer in a corner: "I didn’t mean to put the manuscript on the table this morning. !?"

Outside the transparent office cubicle, there is a place where fifty editors work together. Hearing Howard’s loud voice, a beautiful brown-haired girl stood up in a panic: “Excuse me, Mr. Howard, I’m a bit late today. , I will send you the manuscript right away!"

When she first spoke, she was hurriedly digging out her purse. At this moment, she had taken out a thin stack of manuscript paper and walked quickly into the editor's room: "There are three thousand words in total. Please review it. "

　　 Howard said nothing, and waved his hand to let Zoe sit directly in front of him: "Close the door."

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

　　 After a while, Howard has read the full text of three thousand words: "Zoe...Barnes, you only found five companies?"

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

　　 "Besides, you actually even..."

First I wanted to patiently say a few words, but Howard’s tone undoubtedly became faster and faster: “Although it only takes less than a week, its sales on the first day alone have reached more than 10,000 points, and it’s just next door. In the city of Redmond, Microsoft and Nintendo have placed a large order, not to mention that "Volkswagen Electronics" itself is one of Cisco’s users. In six days, five survey reports, and there is no one among them. The three names just mentioned... Zoe Barnes, don't you want to stay here anymore!?"

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

　　 Zoe subconsciously covered his mouth: "Ah... I'm sorry, Mr. Howard, I'm so sorry that I ignored such important information, I'll be, right away..."

"Now, right away, right away, before it's too early, hurry up to interview Microsoft and Nintendo for me in Redmond! Two such important customers as Cisco are so close to us, you can actually forget the interview! Get out! If you can't finish it today, don't come back tomorrow! Get out!"

　　 What else could Zoe say, he quickly ran out of the editor's room with a hug, didn't even have the time to say hello to a few seniors nearby, so he rushed out of the office.

　　Time waits for no one, because "Volkswagen Electronics" now has too many competitors.

　　 Last Friday, the first weekend of April, was the day when Cisco Systems in San Jose released their new product, the firewall. In addition to weekly magazines such as "Popular Electronics", reporters from the Seattle Daily and Los Angeles Daily have also made all preparations. Even the Wall Street Journal has reporters rushing to the scene to get first-hand news on sales.

In fact, this is also quite interesting. If we say that several major communications operators, headed by at&t, are developing network infrastructure, they are the gods who have created a vast land and the elderly, then companies like Microsoft and Apple, Cisco and Oracle. , Just like those pioneers of the American West who are not afraid of hardship. In addition, people from all walks of life are enjoying it bit by bit.

Received the benefits that these pioneers brought to themselves.

　　 US Western time, 9:30 am on Friday, is the exact moment when the product is on sale. Before that, thousands of old Cisco customers with routers and switches across the country had already sent pre-orders to Cisco weeks and months in advance. When the time came, all these batches of orders were all in an instant. Change to the status of "already traded", the total number is as high as thousands!

　　 At only 9:30, the sales volume of Cisco's new products has reached this number. It is clear that the goods have not been sent yet, but the money has already begun to be transferred from the bank to the company's corporate account. This new and wonderful way of operating relying on the Internet makes Cisco both a pioneer and the first gainer. It is very difficult for other companies to learn.

　　 After all, the workload of processing so many orders at the same time is enough to paralyze the computers and local area networks of most companies. That is, Cisco, which is a big bull in the Internet hardware industry, has a terrifyingly wide network bandwidth, and customers are all users of its products. With each other's cooperation, within one minute, ordinary companies need to dial Results that can only be brought by making countless phone calls and receiving countless faxes.

　　In the first minute of the sale, the turnover has reached tens of millions of dollars. It was directly used as the headline, and it was on the front page of countless newspapers, and it was only early Saturday morning!

　　Of course, the news about the downtime of the banking system was also published in the Wall Street Journal for a long time.

　　 "Hello, a ticket to Redmond!"

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

　　 The conductor checked the computer unhurriedly: "It was a quarter past ten these days, young man."

　　 "That's the class, thank you!"

Of course the conductor has nothing to worry about, and no one is queuing behind Zoe at the moment. She is not in a hurry to operate the computer, and glances at the worried Zoe by the way: "Hey, I said little girl, what? Did things make you so urgent?"

　　 Zoe stroked her long hair awkwardly: "This...because of work needs, I must hurry to that city..."

　　 Her eyes have been attracted by the Seattle Daily, which was cut aside by the conductor.

　　 "Hello, can you lend me the newspaper?"

　　 The conductor issued a ticket and handed it to her: "Of course it's okay, my dear, just take it and see."

　　 Can't wait to get the ticket and the newspaper, Zoe sat on the chair beside him and looked over.

The news on the homepage of 　　 links an established giant with a new type of leading company.

　　 "Boeing buys Cisco firewall in large quantities? Hard working truck drivers! 》

　　 The picture shows the entrance of Boeing's headquarters building in Seattle. Seven or eight FedEx trucks are parked there, and couriers are dumping goods. Although the distance is a little far away, the photographer cleverly captured the pattern on the carton. The long and short lines are like artistic radio waves. Isn't it the Cisco logo?

　　 "Even Boeing bought firewalls in large quantities? Yes, companies like them are the ones who need this kind of products the most. After all, they are a big aircraft manufacturer. Maybe I can include it in the report?"

　　 Zoe used his brain to think about it, because many days have passed since the firewall's launch date, and the statistical data has long been old news, 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 three years ago. Too many people want to know what it is.

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

　　 Just thought of Boeing, as a rookie Zoe suddenly discovered another mistake of his own. Whether it is firewalls or other Cisco products, they are all invented by Alice-Wang. uukahnshu.com and she is also a shareholder of Microsoft. Why didn't I see such an obvious relationship? Howard gave it a whole week, and she worked so hard to write five reports, but she could still fall behind Microsoft! ?

　　 So, at the conductor

Under Sanders' surprised gaze, Zoe screamed in great annoyance, and pulled his hair madly!

　　 A similar scene is happening in many cities across the country, and this is all because of Cisco's launch of their new products. Just as Zoe pulled his hair in annoyance, Wall Street reporters were also spinning around the Citibank building, and this had been going on for quite some time now.

　　The reason is that as early as 9:30 a.m. last Friday, when the stock market just started, their entire bank server crashed!

　　 "Haha, it's so interesting~"

　　 At this time, the sun was hitting vertically at noon. Just as seven or eight reporters were gathered in front of the bank building to see if they could catch a few suitable people to ask some questions, a handsome young man was standing in front of the newsstand on the opposite street. While reading the Wall Street Journal of the day, he reported a hundred thousand points of gloat to the bank executives who are still busy apologizing to the public.

　　 "Well, it's a pity that I didn't foresee this. If I did some short-selling business while Citigroup went wrong, maybe I would already be a millionaire!"

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