Chapter 614 Information Industry Alliance

After Eric finished speaking, the conference room fell into silence. ╪┞┠.([.c[o?m(Although the prospect described by Eric is very inspiring, Ian Gnier and others still can’t help but feel that it is good that this plan has succeeded, but it is very difficult to What if you fail?

After a while, Chris seemed to suddenly think of something, and said lightly, "The Firefly Group was just a small production company six years ago."

The silence was broken, and Steve Mitnick, who had been paying attention to the laptop in front of him, seemed to be absent-minded from beginning to end. I don’t have any confidence in the market value, why don’t you just leave now, and I’ll go back to Dallas tomorrow and continue to help my old man sell junk bonds.”

This sentence without a hint of laughter made several people in the conference room chuckle.

Afterwards, Jeff Locke, the most restrained and stable character in the original trio, also raised his hand and said, "I agree too."

The remaining Ian Grenier and Tina Brown looked at each other and nodded.

"So, let's talk about the specifics now. I would have liked to be able to launch the ies scripting language and chat software as soon as possible, but the introduction of these two projects will once again change the industry's assessment of Yahoo's value, and may also stimulate Microsoft to become It is more urgent, so until the negotiation with Microsoft is concluded, all promotion plans for these two projects are temporarily put on hold. Also, what other ideas do you have that you can speak freely?”

Ian Grenier said: "Compared to the benefits brought by the platform Yahoo Browser Technology Priority Agreement to the promotion of Microsoft's operating system, it is definitely not enough to restrict Microsoft from launching browser software for five years. Browser patent licensing."

"Without any authorization to Microsoft at all, Microsoft will definitely not agree," Eric thought for a while, and said, "When you negotiate, try to make the terms related to patent authorization a bit more difficult, and let Microsoft put more It's good to focus on this. However, as long as we consolidate the position of Yahoo's website and online mailboxes on the Internet, the role of the browser interface will not be so important. So browser software patents do not need to be Microsoft is on guard."

"Ask for another low-interest loan," Steve Mitnick said with a sly look in his eyes, looking at Eric: "I know you're not short of money, but. ┝╪."﹝.c[o

Everyone, word by word, recounted all the cooperation intentions that Eric and Bill Gates reached last night, and determined the bottom line of Yahoo's cooperation. It was almost noon, and Eric just came out and went to the airport to meet John Chambers and Steve Case, who just arrived in Boston at the same time.

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Although the Internet industry in the United States has always been at the forefront of the world,

However, because network service providers such as AT&T, Comcast, and Time Warner, which monopolize the market, have never been motivated to improve their network in pursuit of higher profits, the average network ranking of American network users is basically the same as that of other countries in the world. Ten, so the US network even once became a hindrance to the Internet industry exhibition. In the original time and space, Internet giants such as Google and Facebook were aware of this problem, so they launched high-speed broadband services one after another, which led to the catfish effect. Forcing those industry monopoly giants to choose to mention.

In 1994, the Internet industry was just emerging, and the most critical problem restricting the Internet exhibition was still the network. At this time, the network service was charged by the hour, which was not only expensive, but also the user network was generally below 256kbps, because the fixed telephone did not go through a modem. The bandwidth of dial-up Internet access is only 256kbps. If the network status is not very good, it will take several minutes to download a 1mb file. The slow network at this time is still not due to technical constraints, adsl broadband technology has emerged. But the network service providers that monopolize the market have no intention of upgrading. Because of network restrictions, Yahoo Portal has to artificially reduce the content provided in order to ensure a good user experience.

Although the Clinton administration strongly supports the development of the information industry, if it does not see the actual benefits. Those giants who have monopolized the market simply ignore any policy documents issued by the White House. The explosion of the Internet industry at the end of the century was ultimately driven by interests. The main purpose of Eric's invitation to John Chambers and Steve Case to come to Boston is to join Cisco and America Online to jointly promote the Internet industry to enter the "fast lane" ahead of schedule. Eric's current status and wealth also ensure that he has enough strength to push this matter.

Picked up John Chambers and Steve from the airport and had a simple lunch together. Eric took the two to visit Yahoo's headquarters. Except for some projects and information that needed to be kept secret, Ian Grenier personally showed John Chambers and Steve Keith that Yahoo Network Company has been in the business for two years. Most of the technical achievements in products such as browser software and online email services. ╡w{ww..

When he walked out of the Yahoo headquarters, it was already dusk. Steve Case looked back at the still brightly lit Yahoo headquarters office building with mixed emotions.

When ie and Yahoo were emerging, Steve Case also hoped that Eric could sell these companies to AOL. After being rejected, Steve Case was not discouraged, but started to compete. Mind, AOL launched its own portal last year, but the number of users is far from comparable to Yahoo. Steve. At first, he thought it was mainly because of the advantage of IE browser here, but he visited At this time, after a series of technological achievements far ahead of AOL by Yahoo Network, Steve Case realized that AOL had no possibility to have Yahoo in the network business.

In comparison, John Chambers is much more relaxed. When he was initially identified as Cisco, Eric, the major shareholder, publicly expressed his support for him at the general meeting of shareholders. Implementing his own exhibition strategy has played a big role. Although there are not many meetings, John Chambers still has a good impression on Eric. Although Eric did not express the intention of this invitation on the phone, John Chambers still rushed over from San Francisco in his busy schedule.

After dinner, Chris, John Chambers, Steve Case, and Ian Grenier gathered again in Eric's suite at the Cambridge Hotel.

"You can take a look at these materials first, and we will talk about them later," Eric distributed the prepared materials to several people, although Chris had already read them in advance. At this time, look again.

Eric went to the small bar in the guest room to give coffee to a few people, and said in a casual tone: "In the 1980s, the alliance between Microsoft, IBM, and Intel can be said to be a golden triangle. Microsoft is responsible for the operating system software platform. Research.ibm provides the best equipment, and Intel is committed to processor chip technology. It can be said that the rapid popularization is closely related to the close cooperation of the three companies. Now, they have also achieved a business position ahead of other peers in related fields. I I think the next few years. Will be an important opportunity for a brand new Internet industry exhibition, so why don't we form an alliance similar to Microsoft, IBM and Intel?"

After years of development, Cisco has established its leading position in the field of network solutions, equipment and related software. As the helm of Cisco, John Chambers also felt the budding and rapid development of the Internet industry in recent years. For a while he also occasionally considered how to take the opportunity to allow Cisco to go further. At this time, the information industry alliance plan in his hand made his recent thoughts suddenly brighten up.

Cisco, America Online and Yahoo represent network equipment providers, network service providers and network content providers respectively, and the business areas of the three companies cover the entire network hardware and software industry. It is conceivable that if they can really cooperate closely, the alliance formed by the three companies will definitely become an unmatched behemoth in this new high-tech industry.

After carefully reading the information industry alliance plan with only seven or eight pages twice, John Chambers opened another document, this one is about the application prospect assessment of adsl broadband technology, John Chambers Adsl technology is certainly not unfamiliar, but there is still disagreement within Cisco on whether to focus on this technology and develop corresponding products. At the same time, John Chambers is also very puzzled. How could Eric pay attention to such a technology with a very strong professional application but not a wide range of applications. Raising his head curiously, Eric was bringing a cup of coffee to him and thanked him, but John Chambers still did not rashly ask his doubts. He opened the document in his hand and continued reading.

Of course, Eric could also feel John Chambers' doubts, and he didn't mean to explain it. Anyway, he showed enough different things from ordinary people, and it didn't matter if there was more.

After more than ten minutes of silence in the living room, John Chambers and the others closed the documents in their hands, except for Steve Case. Everyone else's expressions were a little excited.

Eric also looked at Steve Case first and said, "Steve, what do you think of this alliance plan?"

Steve Case smiled bitterly. At this time, AOL already had millions of regular users. Although it was not comparable to traditional network service providers such as AT&T, it was already the most popular among emerging peer companies. 's family. Before seeing the plan of the Information Industry Alliance in his hand, although Steve Case had realized something, he was still a little unwilling in his heart, but at this time, he realized that if AOL did not join the alliance In the plan, Eric will definitely choose another collaborator. At that time, although Eric holds % of AOL's shares, compared with Eric's complete industrial layout plan, the hundreds of millions of dollars of shares will not be worth it at all. It is worth mentioning that Eric will definitely choose to suppress AOL without hesitation.

After hesitating for a moment, Steve Case still asked, "Eric, have you considered other collaborators besides AOL?"

Eric didn't mind the other meanings of Steve Case's question, and said with a smile: "Traditional network service providers such as at&t and Comcast claim to have monopolized the market, and they have lost their aggressiveness. It is almost impossible for them to take the initiative to carry out large-scale technology upgrades, so it is not in the scope of Yahoo's partners. Among the second-tier ISP companies, only AOL currently meets Yahoo's requirements."

Steve Case's expression was slightly relaxed, but seeing Eric's more relaxed appearance, he suddenly thought that the reason why AOL has been able to expand rapidly in the past two years is the million dollar donation provided by Firefly two years ago. U.S. dollar investment, look at Cisco's John Chambers next to him, and the timing of the emergence of Yahoo Networks. Although Steve Case was reluctant to admit it, he still realized that Eric had probably been planning for today's plan since two years ago.

Since this legendary young man started planning for today two years ago, it is impossible for him not to consider today's situation.

The main difference between Eric and Steve Case is in the online business such as AOL's portal website. It is necessary to quit online businesses such as portal websites and focus on the role of network service provider, but seeing the prospect of Yahoo Portal, Steve Case is a little bit hard to give up online business.

Eric certainly thought about this situation today. However, AOL only has about % of the Internet users in the United States at this time. Compared with Yahoo's extensive promotion of Internet Explorer, the number of users that can be affected by the portal's own client software promotion is only more than 10,000, but Yahoo has more than 10,000 users worldwide. Therefore, Eric believes that the probability of Steve Case's rejection is low.

However, even if Steve Case chose to refuse, Eric was not without a backup plan.

The instant messaging software will be launched in the near future. Eric can completely imitate the strategy of Microsoft MSN in the original time and space, and let Yahoo get involved in the field of network service providers. Market advantages, quickly promote Yahoo's network access business.

However, in this way, the business scope of Yahoo will be expanded again, and Ian Gernier and others will not be able to concentrate on implementing the 'Yahoo Technology Alliance' and 'Yahoo Advertising Alliance' plans. This is not Eric Hope to see results. (To be continued.)

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