The peak of the tide

just read a book, called the peak of the tide. To tell the truth, the book of the Blue giant IBM, the dim superstar hp, Pentium core Intel and so on, a Big Mac, their start, development, rise, and even the final down, no one is deeply attracted to me, I think this is the charm of technology.

Just opened the picture, saw the book called "The Tide of the top", I guess this book is not to speak of standing at the peak of the people or things, open the book I know I guess right! In the past more than 100 years, there have been some companies that have been fortunate, consciously or unconsciously, to be on the cusp of technological revolution. Once in that position, even if you don't do anything, you can drift forward for ten years or even longer with the wave entreat. In these more than 10 years, they represent the wave of technology, until the next wave of the coming. Typical of these, at and T, IBM, Apple (Apple), Intel, Microsoft (Microsoft), Cisco (Cisco), Yahoo ( Yahoo) and Google (Google) have been fortunate to have been pushed to the crest. Although they come from different fields, some of them have fallen or are fading, but they are extremely brilliant. They were once global empires, dominating their own industries.

      Country generation has talent out, a generation of new people for the old, this sentence for those technology companies to set up. No company can always stand on the top, every time technological change, will create a group of companies, will also let a group of companies gradually fade out of people's horizons. Because science and technology are the most revolutionary, the fastest growing productivity. It is not easy for a technology company to be able to stand on the top of the tide in several technological revolutions. The success of the enterprise is the key to the transformation. Because of the impact of the company's genes, most enterprises can not do this, so there is the rise of new companies and the decline of established enterprises. There is a good saying, the reasons for success are different, the reasons for failure are mostly the same. At/t (US telephone and telegraph) company is not because of the greed of investors and the company has no vision to cause its decline; Hewlett-Packard is not a qualified leader, and the last is not half-dead, from the original technology company into a commercial company, can no longer be in confrontation with other companies Motorola's people feel that the company is its own, and for its long-term interests, so the board's short-sighted and greed to ruin it, although many companies in the hundred years of decline, but still have a very few companies survived in the hundred years, including Intel, 3m,ge,ibm,apple, Microsoft is one of the typical. Sun Company and Microsoft's system of contention, I think if the sun company is a bit smarter, perhaps we now use is not Microsoft's windows, but the history can not be repeated, the idea can only be in the mind to think about it. Novell, like Sun, once had a chance to compete with Microsoft in terms of operating systems, but ended up losing the company under Microsoft. Netscape and Microsoft Internet browser (Web Browser) is a topic to be asked, my view is that Netscape was Microsoft's bundling strategy plus free to provide users with the way to defeat, Real Networks is actually the case, so only the rise of IE and media Player. Bundling strategy in my look is a rogue play, but the mall with the battlefield, regardless of white cat black cat, can catch mouse is a good cat, Microsoft after all, Windows operating system as backing, this is understandable. I analyzed it, and the company that worked with Microsoft did not have a good result, like ibm,apple in its hands, and Microsoft was competing for it, like Sun and Novell. I have to say, Microsoft is really strong, Bill Gates is a genius. Competing with Microsoft, there are only two ways to go. One is competition, like Apple, and the other is to avoid Microsoft's Intuit to earn its own money, such as application software developers such as Adobe, and Symantec. Reading this book, I sincerely admire Bill Gates.

     mentioned these companies, so we have to mention Silicon Valley and Stanford University. The most accurate thing about Stanford's founding and many other claims is that the old Riland Stanford couple sent their only child Riland Stanford (Leland Stanford Jr) to Europe to travel and the children died in Europe. The Stanford couple was very sad and later decided to use all their wealth (about $ tens of millions of, equivalent to $1 billion today). For all of California's children (children of California, not the legendary children of the United States or the Children of the World) to establish a university to commemorate their own children. The university is named Leland Stanford University (Stanford Junior University), or Stanford University. When we heard about two hillbilly couples who had found Harvard and offered to donate a building for Harvard, the head of Harvard University was arrogant and rejected, and it was wrong to say that the couple had established the University of Stan. (*^__^*) hehe ..., have corrected a mistake. Watching the education of the United States, domestic things are not up to it. The formation of Silicon Valley depends on Stanford University, after the Second World War, Stanford University faced a serious financial crisis, the school has no way, had to rent the school's land without violating the wills of the Stanford couple (8,000 acres (32 square kilometers) left by the Stanford couple is equivalent to two of the size of Macau, While the university's central campus occupies less than one-tenth of its own, in 1953, the first companies, including the famous Kodak company, GE, Chacley transistor company (the pioneer of the birth of the IC), Lockheed (America's largest arms dealer) and Hewlett-Packard Company entered the Stanford Science Park. For Stanford, the impact was far-reaching, not only to solve Stanford's financial problems, but also to become an opportunity for Stanford to enter the world's leading universities. For the outside world, it has led to the formation of Silicon Valley. We have a lot of places in the science and Technology Park is called Silicon Valley, but because of the lack of Stanford University and Silicon Valley atmosphere, has not created a world-type big company, it must be said that the domestic education system has a lot of problems.      

In fact, the book is still a lot of content or look very vague. Like those theorems, the Moore theorem (Moore's Law), Andy-Bill's theorem (Andy and Bill's Law), the inverse Moore theorem (Reverse Moore's Law).

I think it should be my knowledge level is not enough .... It seems to be stepping up learning! As a college student, I think we can learn a lot from this book, we live in this information blowout period, if not seize the time to learn more knowledge, it will only be abandoned by this society. In particular, the Stanford University of Technology and learning methods I very much appreciate that students can participate in science and technology research and development in school, which is equal to work in the school, we go to college in order to get out to find a good job? But we are now in the school are a closed ivory tower, and the society has derailed, all day in school live 3.1 lines of life, practical ability not, so how to improve themselves, go out how to find a good job (oops, grumble, dissatisfaction with the reality). Time to make heroes or heroes of the times, this problem we do not discuss, for each of us, should seize every opportunity, often a chance to achieve your life, like the book of the big companies are not all the same. But the foundation of seizing the opportunity is that we should have strong knowledge reserve and practical ability as the backing. So the university four years do not neglect, can learn more points to learn more, do not do nothing all day, the whole day is online playing games, there is more time to go to the library, where you may find what you want to do?

What do you say? Yesterday is past, the past is not equal to the future. University for four years, and the line and struggle it!

The peak of the tide