The Goddess Shines on America

There are many manuscripts filled with programming codes on the white walls, and many complicated materials are piled up on the scattered desks. It is already late at night, and there is only one young man staying in the office.

Larolle has been working at Nasdaq for two years, but not as a well-dressed stockbroker who lives an exciting life every day, but as an administrator of the network equipment of the exchange. Responsible for maintaining these valuable computer equipment.

At this time, Larolle was looking at a magazine boredly, because the routine inspection work had already been completed.

As for the stock exchange, computers are so developed now, and the network infrastructure has been built overwhelmingly. It is only natural that Nasdaq will introduce these high-end equipment, and it is already quite catching up with the trend. It's like the monitors in the trading hall, which were just replaced at the end of last year. You know, the airport flight schedules at the same time are not like this yet.

"Hey, every day, isn't there anything interesting to do?"

After flipping through the magazine, he glanced at the NASDAQ index on the computer that closed today.

It can be said that Rome was not built in a day, and upgrading was not done in a day. Although the exchange was only established in 1971, the entire management is full of youthful energy, but the replacement of hardware equipment is another matter. Just like this computer, not to mention that the machine itself is an old model, the people on it don't even plan to buy a Windows system CD.

The computer Larolle uses at home is still the latest Microsoft system, but he has to use the old-fashioned DOS system in the company. Anyone who has experienced this feeling of returning to the original will have to complain.

Looking at the index, it is still in the position of not moving at all, that is of course, has the market closed yet? Lalore sighed again, he was so bored with the routine work every day.

Bored, he turned his chair and stared blankly at the buzzing servers behind him.

That's right, the work of network management is not something ordinary people can do. Just say that the noisy fans of these computers are enough to leave sequelae for employees. Fortunately, the management department above is not completely behind the times. Since the end of last year, they have replaced the same number of dedicated computers with a batch of new types of little guys.

Cisco routers.

This is a treasure, small in size, but the size of a suitcase, cheap, just two thousand dollars, but it can replace a whole dedicated computer that is too heavy, expensive, and annoyingly delicate. Although Larolle is just the most ordinary network administrator, he really wants to thank Cisco, after all, it saved him the noise of more than a dozen computer fans!

Idle is also idle, Larolle began to study this novel thing.

The workmanship of the router is exquisite, and its white metal casing alone is very beautiful, and the designer obviously has a strong ingenuity, very considerately setting different colors for the sockets on the rear side of the machine. Yellow is for computer access, and blue is for access to the external network. With such a clear design, even the most layman can use it.

The main thing that aroused Laroll's interest was the flashing light bulbs on the front of the router.

The meaning of the POWER light is naturally the most obvious. It means that the router is powered on and is working.

There are also five light bulbs marked "1, 2, 3, 4, 5", which means that up to five computers can be connected to this router, and now all five lights are on. Of course, the computers on the exchange work 24 hours a day, which has nothing to do with the opening and closing of the stock market.

Then, there is another small light at work.

It was clear to Larol that the faster the three lights flashed, the more information was entering the network.

Now, because the market has already closed after all, and it is already early in the morning, even those financial analysts who often stay up late rarely continue to surf the Internet. Therefore, at this moment, these three lights are almost all off, and only occasionally flicker for a while.

"Hey, when will such a job end..."

The bored Laroll complained again. No matter how comfortable the chair was, his back hurt from sitting on it. Seeing that it was early morning, he stood up and walked around the spacious and narrow computer room.

Dozens of business computers produced by IBM are placed here, and the price of each one is so high that Laroll can only afford to vomit blood, but this is also normal, the quality of the dedicated server for the stock exchange cannot be low.

Very bored, he walked to the door and looked towards the corner of the wall.

It was a surveillance probe, and the images captured would be transmitted directly to the surveillance room, where they would be repeatedly erased on video tapes. In fact, Laroll was very disgusted with the pervasive behavior of the exchange, and fortunately, the management had completely caught up with the trend, and even the monitoring room was connected to the network.

Is this the prototype of the future office model?

Larolle couldn't help thinking wildly. Although he is not a stockbroker, he still works in the stock exchange after all. The biggest impact that keeping a close eye on the stock market trend will bring to people is to have a feeling for the future development model of society. Although Larolle is a layman, he also has a deep understanding.

For example, among the companies that will be listed tomorrow, there is the famous Microsoft.

Larolle has been paying attention to Microsoft for a long time, and he is also very clear that countless shareholders in the whole country are looking forward to its listing. Some time ago, when Microsoft's IPO was successful for the first time, even the Wall Street Journal reported in detail about the situation.

Initial public offering, this is the most important thing a company can experience, and for some ordinary investment companies, helping a company IPO is also the best proof that it has become a strong player in the industry.

The issue price is US$21, which is the valuation made for Microsoft by the certified public accountants of the relevant investment companies after a long time of work. All the shareholders of the company each allocated some shares and consolidated a stock worth 2 million US dollars, accounting for 15% of the total share capital, for public sale. When all these stocks are sold out, even if they are only sold at the issue price, Microsoft will immediately receive 42 million US dollars in funds, and let all shareholders who bought the stock share the 15% share capital.

Do you want to buy another one?

Of course.

Having said that, there is one thing that stands out.

As we all know, before a company goes public, it needs to announce the list of shareholders and executives to the public. After all, if a company doesn't even tell the public about this, how can shareholders be expected to buy its stock with confidence?

So of course Microsoft did the same.

The company's largest shareholder is naturally Bill Gates.

But to Laroll's dismay, the company's second largest shareholder was not the other founder, Paul Allen, as he thought, but a name called Alice Wang.

To be honest, Larolle didn’t have much of an impression. Although he would keep an eye on the Wall Street Journal every day, every day, and every day, and subscribed to many financial newspapers and magazines at the same time, he could be sure that he had never heard of this name.

Such a large shareholder change, when did Microsoft happen! ?

Larolle can only keep this question in his mind for the time being. After all, Microsoft hadn’t completed its IPO at that time. As an ordinary company, it certainly had no obligation to announce high-level changes to the public, and ordinary people certainly would not be interested in who the boss of a non-listed company was.

Every day, every night when he was on duty alone, Larolle would always think about it like this. Now, when he was almost relaxed, he lazily returned to his seat.

Next, doze off again, doze off again, or doze off again?

Important thing to repeat three times, because Larol is really sleepy.

God, waiting all night after routine server maintenance is not torture! ?

Thinking of this, Larolle's drowsiness was dispelled by depression and depression, he stood up again as soon as he sat down, and started walking around the computer room again...

stand up……

Come……

"Um?"

Lalore stopped suddenly.

As if Spider-Man was pulling on a sticky thread, he cast his eyes on a router in the corner.

Yes, a router, although there were two other compatriots next to it, but Larolle only focused on this one.

Its work lights were blinking wildly.

"what the hell?"

Muttering, Lalore walked up to the router: "It's early in the morning, is there anyone still using the Internet?"

This shouldn’t be the case, Larolle has been working at the exchange for two years, and this router has been in the computer room since October last year. How many **** nights, no one will be so busy in the middle of the night !

"Let me think about it, let me think about it, what is the principle of a router?"

Squatting in front of the router that was only flashing non-stop, Laroll muttered: "Transmit data packets between multiple IP addresses, and choose the best path, and can also accommodate non-stop types of protocols..."

So the current situation is obvious, that is, someone is inputting data into the server of the Nasdaq Exchange, and there is a lot of data, otherwise these three lights will not flash like everlasting lights.

"And it's specifically for a certain server..."

Thinking about it, Larol's tired head began to recall.

"In the middle of the night, when there should be no one using computers in the exchange...suddenly, someone is transferring data to a specific server in large quantities..."

Sleepy, really sleepy, Larolle realized vaguely that he seemed to have forgotten his coffee.

"Uh, well, probably the analysis department is preparing for tomorrow's new stock listing. Financial analysts, staying up late all the time is really tiring..."

Whispering like this, he lay down on the spot and fell asleep soundly.