Rebirth of the New Farmers in the 1980s

June 10th, morning in Silicon Valley.

Silicon Valley, known as the kingdom of the electronics industry and the computer industry, was actually a place where silicon-based semiconductor chips were produced in the past.

There are row upon row of skyscrapers in Silicon Valley, and almost all the famous network semiconductor companies in the United States gather here. This is the center and holy place of the world's semiconductor and Internet industries.

In the Netscape office building in Silicon Valley, Marco Anderson, one of the founders of Netscape, walked into the office building with exhaustion.

He was in poor spirits, very depressed, and gloomy clouds flickered on his face from time to time, which was extremely disproportionate to his twenty-six years old.

As the CEO of an emerging technology company, it stands to reason that he should be sunny now.

Yes, at this time two years ago he was still full of ambition and pride, as if he held the entire Milky Way in his hands.

But the country is easy to change, and he became like this two years later.

Mark Anderson's gloom comes from the browser wars between Netscape and Microsoft.

The two companies are in Silicon Valley, but they are called the Silicon Valley feud by later generations, which shows how fierce the battle between the two sides was at that time.

Since the four-hour talks between the two sides in Silicon Valley in 1995 failed to produce any results, the two sides have become enemies.

The rhetoric of Weiruan is that the CEO of Netscape said that in front of Netscape, Windows can only act as a driver for a bunch of poorly designed devices.

In terms of Netscape, the negotiators of Weisoft are aggressive. They not only propose to divide the browser market, but also require that Netscape products can only run on old versions of Windows.

Marco Anderson compared Victorian representatives to underworld figures sent by the Godfather.

Anyway, the mother-in-law said that the mother-in-law was right, and the public said that the public was right, and I don't know who is right.

Then Weiruan released Windows 95, and Weiruan's own browser, IE browser 1.0, was installed on Windows 95.

The battle between the two sides officially began.

At first, the performance of IE1.0 was lackluster, and it was not the opponent of Netscape Browser 2.0 at all.

Netscape has a huge advantage in browser market share, and its dominance makes Weisoft uneasy.

At this time, after careful planning, Weiruan resorted to three tricks: the first trick was on December 7, 1995, when Netscape’s stock reached its historical peak, Weiruan held a press conference to announce: Will intervene and expand its influence in the network field. The president of Weiruan changed his words and claimed that Weiruu is the backbone of the Internet. Next, Weiruu will improve the browser to make it faster and free.

Before that, Netscape's stock was as high as 171 million yuan, but after the speech was changed, Netscape's stock began to fall, and it never reached the height of 171 million yuan.

Investors in Netscape realized that Weisoft had an overwhelming advantage, and Netscape's future seemed uncertain.

The second measure: Weiruan has increased the research and development of browsers. At least IE3.0 launched at the end of 1996 is technically as good as the latest Netscape Navigator 3.0.

The IE browser is installed in the Weiruan interface system itself, and the level of the two parties is similar, so the person who installs the Weiruan system does not need to spend money to buy the Netscape browser installation.

Netscape's share began to dwindle.

Changed the words and asked an AOL executive in 1996: "How much money does Microsoft need to make you give up Netscape and switch to IE as the recommended browser?"

This is Weiruan's third trick.

Subsequently, a group of well-known companies in the United States announced that they would abandon the Netscape browser and switch to the IE browser.

Netscape gradually lost market share. In the fourth quarter of 1997, the company posted a loss of 80 million yuan, and the stock price fell to less than 20 million yuan.

On June 10th, Netscape was not so miserable, but its market share was less than one-third of its peak period. The company had suffered a loss of about tens of millions of yuan, and its stock price had dropped from 171 million yuan at its peak. The rice yuan fell to thirty-two yuan, and it was still falling.

Marco Anderson sat listlessly on the sofa, leaning his head on the back of the sofa and closing his eyes, trying to figure out how to solve the company's current crisis.

If he can't think of a countermeasure, he can only watch the company decline day by day. At this rate, Netscape will go bankrupt and be acquired by the end of the year.

Marco Anderson was about to crack his head and didn't come up with a good idea, when the phone on his desk rang.

"Mark! Check your email. I'll send you an email. I'm on my way to the company."

The call was made by another founder of Netscape, James Scolaco, and his tone was very urgent.

Marco Anderson turned on the computer and clicked on his mailbox, and there was indeed an email in it.

It seemed to be a program, and it took Marco Anderson a few minutes to open it.

As time went by, Marco Anderson, who was holding a disapproving expression at first, gradually became dignified, then surprised, then dignified, and then...

Like convulsions.

With a bang, the door of his office was pushed open, and James Sracco rushed in almost at a trot.

After graduating from university, Marco Anderson went to California, where he met Jim Scolaco, and the two hit it off right away, and they established Mosaic Communications, the predecessor of Netscape.

"Mark! Did you see it? Did you see it?" Jim Scolaco yelled as soon as he entered the room.

"Jamus, I'm watching!"

"We are saved!"

"Yes! We are saved!"

Mark stood up from behind the desk, and the two hugged and danced around the room.

This email is the Huaguang system interface file that Wan Feng asked Xu Meilin to send over.

Netscape has also made a system, and both of them are from majors, so they can see the power of this system.

"Jamus, we must get this system! Oh yes! Where did it come from?"

"Hua Guo!"

Marco Anderson didn't blink his eyes for a long time: "You mean from that backward authoritarian country?"

"Yes! It was sent from a company called Huaguang in North Liao Province, Huaguo."

"How is this possible! Someone in Huaguo actually made a system? And they did it so well!"

"Marco! Now is not the time to be surprised, we need to discuss how to get this system."

It was only when Zhan Muskolaco said this that Marco came back to his senses. Now is really not the time to worry about whether there are people who play the system in Huaguo.

"Jamusi! How about you go to Huaguo yourself? See what the other party wants, and if the conditions allow, buy the system back. No! Buy it back if the conditions are not allowed. No matter what the price is, Netscape's life and death depend on it." It's over. You negotiate, I'll raise money."

"Okay! I'm going to apply for a visa to fly to China right away."

Zhan Muskolaco turned and left in a hurry.

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