Blooming America

Chapter o6 Catherine's Countermeasures

"By the way, how is Lamar Lab?"

Catherine asked again.

"It's done." Ralph answered.

Catherine nodded.

"Go and see if you can cooperate with Bell Labs... Of course, Cooper may be a little bit resistant. If it doesn't work, then forget it. By the way, you can contact Corning again, or find Alcatel in France Companies, we can work with them to research new types of optical fibers, and even we can give them the optical fiber plans for some inter-city lines and intra-city lines...Of course, our Unicom must still operate."

The blue giant IBm under the leadership of Thomas Watson is definitely a giant of giants.

The total market value of IBm in the 1970s was 100 million U.S. dollars.

In the past, IBm did not fully launch an offensive against aRk. It was probably because of concerns about the patents of the integrated circuits in Catherine's hands, as well as the patents of the cpu.

IBm was also one of the few companies that was able to "slap face" when Japan entered the US market.

In the “historical” era, Japanese computer companies with low manufacturing costs began to enter the US market. Faced with this kind of competitiveness, IBm invested US$100 million in capital to reduce the cost of product manufacturing before the age. To reduce costs, it cost 100 million.

At this time, IBm is in the upswing period of the enterprise and is about to reach its peak.

For Catherine, the failure to keep up with production is also a major problem.

IBm's wealth is so strong that it can take out 50,000 computers at a time, but it is strange that Catherine, the Celeron computer with an output of less than 100 units, can occupy the market.

Although Catherine has advantages over IBm in terms of price and performance, the market cannot be expanded if the output cannot keep up.

Catherine gave a huge amount of funds to Soros, also in this regard, expansion of production capacity is also necessary. But the most important thing in the current Taiwan factory is to produce x.

With an annual output of more than one million units of x, a large amount of Catherine’s production capacity was consumed.

But Catherine will not stop producing x.

If you do that, you will also experience a massive decline in the video game industry, and other game manufacturers will take advantage of the trend.

If she cannot retreat, Catherine has at least x as a back.

In Cunning Rabbit Three Caves, it is impossible for Catherine to hang himself on a tree, so it is absolutely impossible to stop the production of x.

But... will IBm enter the gaming industry?

Catherine was not quite sure.

IBm is mainly aimed at business users, but if Jr. Watson is determined to kill herself, that is not true. So in this regard, Catherine must also come up with some countermeasures.

"When is the IBm computer sold?" Catherine asked again.

"According to their public statement, it was in the year." Sanders replied.

"But maybe it will be ahead of schedule, at the time of Seymour Clay, it was like this."

Catherine nodded.

At the beginning, Seymour Cray’s class computers were developed ahead of IBm’s mainframes, but also because of their production capacity, they could not occupy more of the market. Coupled with the conflict between Clay and the company, IBm took the bulk of the market go.

"We will not consider occupying the mainframe market for the time being. We must maintain the market for minicomputers and microcomputers."

After acquiring Olson's company, their minicomputer market was also inherited by Catherine.

"By the end of June, I will spend at least 100 million, and all of our users will expand the microcomputer market."

It is Catherine's current strategy to keep the basic disk of the microcomputer market.

For this reason, Catherine did not hesitate to divide the cakes of some related industries around.

"Our basic policy now is to expand production and occupy the market."

It is necessary to share the risks and expand the pie of benefits. Only when the pie is made bigger can those with vested interests be satisfied and think that it is not to dismantle the group, but to fight the enemy together.

The research on the three-phase synchronous optical drive is still in progress. Although the finished product is already available, it cannot be miniaturized.

If it cannot be miniaturized, it cannot be put into production.

But cooperating with other companies can speed up the research progress.

"The giant has started to move, so what should we clowns do?"

Catherine murmured.

"You have worked out a complete countermeasure these days and put it in my office."

Catherine rubbed her temples.

In addition to these, there is another thing Catherine has to do, and that is to win over a third party.

The royalties are very effective in Japan, and for Catherine, they are also a money-sucking machine, but I am afraid that IBm will use more favorable means to pull third parties away.

The third party is the key to success or failure. This is also where ps defeats n64.

Therefore, the royalties must be cancelled.

However, the pros and cons of software and games must still be guaranteed by a mechanism.

But how should this be done?

Catherine soon thought of a good agent, or free coolie-the federal government.

The industry chain of video games has been formed. Anyone with some vision can see that such a new industry is bound to flourish.

Catherine estimated that the real big explosion in this industry will probably be seven years later, when the Vietnam War ended, Americans' lives became more comfortable, and there was free time to watch movies and play games.

But now Catherine is adopting a low-price strategy, so now sales are very good.

To occupy the market in advance, the next step should be to expand their influence in the market and the degree of third-party dependence on them.

Therefore, what Catherine has to do now is to amplify the power of third parties and make them stronger.

As long as you still occupy the market, you are not afraid that no one will produce games and software for yourself.

But there is one more thing Catherine has to do, that is, the balance of the third party must be maintained, which is also very important.

Catherine is a Republican party that prefers to represent the interests of capitalists.

At this time, she noticed a person—George Herbert Walker Bush.

Old George is a member of the U.S. Congress.

It's no better for Old George to seek an agent in politics.

In order for the U.S. federal government to work for nothing, it must find someone to help it make suggestions.

Liberation of third parties can make them prosper very quickly.

And Catherine's company, transformed, has become a monopolistic business, in fact, it can make more.

Resistance is almost hopeless.

The only way is to compromise with IBm.

However, peace talks require capital. What Catherine has to do now is to occupy an optimal position and negotiate with IBm under the most favorable conditions.

Moreover, this negotiation cannot last too long, and the peace talks must be completed before the company becomes fatigued.

If it doesn't work, Catherine can only offer a killer... to go public.

"Mr. Soros... please don't let me down..."

Catherine still has an advantage. She has Taiwan's low cost and unlimited labor. It is feasible to resist IBm.

No... Maybe you can still fight him...

Expanding production and occupying the market are just one step, and Catherine can also start from other places.

The object of IBm is probably commercial applications.

In the United States, business automation is divided into three stages.

The first stage is the realization of office automation projects based on individual office equipment, such as word processing, form processing, data copying and document transmission completed by word processors, photocopiers, and fax machines.

If Catherine is right, IBm should have watched this one.

But what Catherine is facing now is the second stage.

At this stage, it is mainly the networking of office information processing, the use of local areas, etc. to strengthen the communication of office information, and share office information resources. At the same time, database system technology can be used to improve office automation from transaction processing level to information management level and computer-aided decision-making level.

Catherine has established a relatively complete office information system in various departments within the company. What she has to do now is to promote this system.

In this regard, Catherine has an advantage.

The third stage is to further improve the computer network communication system, improve the networked and integrated office information communication system, improve the nationwide and international e-mail system; develop the application of electronic data exchange technology, and actively promote integrated business digital The application of network communication technology.

At this stage, as long as Catherine's optical fiber intercity network is completed, it can be achieved.

Catherine has a vision that IBm doesn't have in this regard.

Not only that, Catherine knew that the use of electronic computers is not limited to such a place.

Catherine immediately thought of an industry.

In other words, an industry that has created the world's wealth and the top 500 fortunes in the future.

--city.

Yes, the computer can be used in the city

Now that IBm's mainframes have occupied the banks and other markets, Catherine has no way to step in.

But this is not the case in the...level market.

My own microcomputer ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ can be used in the city.

The salesperson uses the computer for settlement and inputs the data into the mainframe at the same time. In this way, it can even be convenient for the city to make statistics. If there is a scanner and bar code, it is more convenient.

Not only that, there are more important uses.

Tracking the whole process from warehousing to sales; realizing unmanned operation together with the robotic arm-this is a sign of the advanced nature of modern warehouses. Catherine called it the "Warehouse Automation Management System".

The company that Catherine valued was a small business established in 1996.

-Wal-Mart.

In 1997, the company went public in New York, and its value doubled in the next five years.

Then, Wal-Mart quickly defeated Microsoft, stepped on IBm, surpassed General Motors, and became one of the world's top 500

Catherine's plan is aimed at Wal-Mart.