Chapter 26

Henry browsed the website of American finance and economics, and found that the website mainly provides all kinds of financial news, and deeply exposes the economic problems of the United States, and even has a senior economist column comment area. The content looks very tall!

Steve case is very smart. He has an economist column and knows how to use the celebrity effect!!!

After reading it, Henry had to admire it.

But Steve case would be naive to think that he could beat Henry!

For the moment, American financial network has indeed attracted a lot of people. First, it's fresh. Second, there are indeed many business people who are the main users of the Internet. But Americans pay attention to the economy. They usually read newspapers and watch TV. They don't have the habit of watching economic news on the Internet. Therefore, the number of people is not exaggerated! Now the main purpose of Internet users is communication, business communication, technical communication and so on.

They exchange information, using email most!

And the global online e-mail has been recognized by people! When people get used to using global online e-mail, even if you ask them to change an e-mail, they are too troublesome to change it. Unless there is a disruptive technological innovation in this e-mail, it will be difficult for users to change their habits!

And with the increasing number of Internet users and the reduction of knowledge, people's purpose of surfing the Internet is more for the pursuit of entertainment!!!

In fact, communication is also a way of entertainment!

ICQ, QQ, MSN and other instant messaging software that will be active in the Internet in the future are good communication platforms. Many people forget to return all day long to chat with each other. And then to the popularity of Facebook community communication website, communication has almost become an indispensable part of people's entertainment in the Internet!

At this stage, AOL has really taken a wonderful step. But it's hard to predict whether the next move will continue well!

Soon afterwards, AOL lost two lawsuits one after another!

In the first case, the judge ordered AOL to infringe the Netscape company's graphics browser patent, compensate us $2 million, and require AOL to make certain modifications to the browser before it can be put into operation. At the same time, it is necessary for netscape to grant part of Al browser patent, otherwise, the judge will sentence it as monopoly crime! Of course, AOL must pay Netscape a certain patent fee every year!

In the second lawsuit, the content is roughly the same. AOL infringed the global online patent, graphic e-mail patent, and paid US $1 million. But global online must also license some patents, otherwise it will form a monopoly.

Monopoly is a serious problem in the United States.

In a previous life, Apple was going bankrupt, and Microsoft system had no rivals. Seeing that the axe of monopoly was about to fall, Microsoft offered a helping hand to apple!

In the previous life, AMD company was almost finished, Intel company threw a piece of meat to it to eat, amd was able to survive!

Henry also knew the seriousness of the problem. He said that he could not do anything except helpless!

But what if the patent fee doesn't go to the dead end?

AOL is crying out that the patent fee is too expensive. Henry said that it is normal for the patent fee to be expensive. Now there are only two GUI browsers on the market, that is to say, the two browsers monopolize the market. How can they not charge more? What's more, it's for everyone's sake that the patent fee is expensive. You see, the threshold of entering the browser industry is high, and not many people join the competition. The ultimate beneficiary is not AOL... And Netscape!

AOL this loss to eat depressed, but had to eat!

With the dust of the lawsuit settled, the contradiction between Henry and AOL has also subsided.

AOL has been less clamorous, and now when the turtle, or perhaps in the pay!

With Henry's understanding of Steve case, he would rather believe the latter!

In Scully's hands, Apple has signed two bad contracts in succession. The first is to agree with Microsoft to use part of the apple system interface patent. The second is to sign an agreement with AOL to install al browser! These two shocks are much stronger than those in previous lives, playing the role of one plus one greater than two!

Apple is on the verge of bankruptcy!

Of course, apple is not going bankrupt in a short time!

Maybe one or two years, maybe three or four years, maybe even longer. In the previous life, apple fell into bankruptcy crisis in 1996 and lost hundreds of millions of dollars in a single quarter! No way, Microsoft broke out that year, apple suffered a disaster! Now, Apple has only hurt its vitality, but not at all!

It's windy outside, it's raining cats and dogs, it's terrible!

After reading the papers, Henry fell asleep on his desk. This time, Henry is also busy, AOL to add to his block, not to say, Sequoia Capital also began a small action!

Sequoia Capital helped AOL to fight Nicholas group. It's good that Henry didn't trouble him. It's even in trouble with Cisco!

With the development of time, the network speed of NSFC will be increased ahead of schedule this year. At that time, the cost of Internet access will be greatly reduced, and the network speed will also be greatly improved! During this period, Cisco's performance has been increasing explosively every month, with European branches in France and Asian branches in Hong Kong.

Originally, the establishment of an Asian branch of RB was most conducive to the development of the company, but Henry was not happy with RB. If Mao wants to help them develop their network, he should go to Hong Kong first. Hong Kong's geographical location and economy are not inferior to RB's, but it's a small place, but it has a wide range of radiation response, which is also conducive to Cisco's business in Asia!

Sequoia Capital disagrees with Henry on this point. They think it's best for the company to set up a branch in Rb!

Henry, however, strongly disagreed.

Sequoia Capital was very angry and began to draw on the bossacks and the company's management to create pressure on Henry!

But the bossacks supported Henry, and John Chambers was promoted by Henry himself. Now he is the CEO of the company, while bossack changed to be the chief technology officer and Lerner continued to be the financial director of the company. The whole company's upper management is united with Henry, and Sequoia Capital's words are useless.

I don't know what it's thinking, but it's urging the company to go public!

Henry originally had a plan to list Cisco. Only by listing and financing can Cisco really become rich, become a local tyrant, and then wave checks everywhere to become a king of acquisition and a big Mac!

However, the time for listing and financing has not yet come. Henry thinks that it is undoubtedly the best time to choose to go public after the speed-up of the US science foundation!

Cisco is not only developing routers, but also switches and modems.

Modem dialing needs to be used. At first, there is no need to dial to access the Internet. But since the US science foundation network is in the hands of us capitalists, it has changed its quality and gradually become commercialized. Access to the network costs money, to dial in order to access the Internet. Modem also came into being, Cisco is one of the first companies to produce this thing!

Now there are more and more network equipment production companies, but Cisco has been dealing with the leading position!

However, there are still many companies in the back, especially 3Com!

When Henry and AOL were in full swing, Sequoia Capital continued to invest $50 million in 3Com. Originally, Sequoia Capital was an angel investor of 3Com, and it had already taken up a lot of shares in the first round of investment. This time, it invested in 3Com, obviously very optimistic about 3Com, and even wanted to build it into the best network equipment provider in the United States and even the world!

And this, in every sense, is at the expense of Cisco's interests!

After hearing this news, Henry secretly analyzed whether Sequoia Capital was anxious to let Cisco go public and wanted to cash in, and then helped 3Com develop wholeheartedly（ Less updates today, more tomorrow... Please support as always!)