When Borde Gates, Larry Eliison, Michael Dell and Steve Jobs, etc. The study is in the 1970s, and the 1980s will kill, as if they want to rule the entire IT industry. "University of the University" is under the hand. It seems that this "positive" is basically a great effort.
In addition to IBM, HP and other IT "antique" levels are still very strong, with high-tech IT industry is basically these "low literature" 雄 霸 地 地. However, it is gratifying that there are some companies founded by some high-quality people, "captured" some of the sites, including the Cisco (Cisco) founded by Stanford's two teachers. In 2000, Cisco became the highest value of $ 53.2 billion in the world's market value (in the last 20 years, "IT industry only has Microsoft and Cisco to board the world's highest peak). Of course, the situation quickly turned straight down.
Since Cisco does not provide product to mass consumers, Cisco is a relatively strange company: we know the climb of Cisco stocks, but don't know its 来 龙 去; we know Cisco's weapons of intellectual property I have an explanation of Huawei, but I don't know the reason of Cisco's own intellectual property; we know that Chambers is the helmsman of Cisco sailing, but I don't know the company's founder and Chairman Morridge; we know that Cisco has recently passed the pain and layoff news But don't know that Chambers breaks the huge pain of "never lay off" vows.
Yes, mentioning history, Cisco can not only be more than IBM, Intel, etc., can not be compared with Microsoft, Oracle, etc., said culture, Cisco can not be more than Apple, HP, but Cisco is indeed the god of Silicon Valley, the Internet The peak embodiment, the symbol of the new economy. Cisco represents the 10 years of brilliance of the Internet, representing the 10-year glory of Silicon Valley.
Let us walk into the depths of the history of Cisco, and listen to the pace of it, grasp the pulse it beats.
Cisco, a company established in 1984, the market value is actually equivalent to the blue giant IBM. Cisco's stock is one of the hottest stocks in the past 10 years since 1990, has increased more than 100 times more than listed in 1990. The company's market value exceeds Microsoft and Intel, becoming the world.
In 1995, Cisco became the world's largest network equipment manufacturer. In 2000, the sales of Cisco was $ 18 billion, 31,000 employees, and the market value reached $ 444 billion, second only to GE (General Electric) 505 billion US dollars and Intel (Intel) of $ 446 billion, and it also exceeded Microsoft's $ 358 billion.
On March 27, 2000, it was a historic moment. Cisco's total market value reached $ 555 billion, once more than Microsoft became the company's highest value in the US market, although it was very short in the peak of the world. However, for this moment, Microsoft spent nearly 25 years before climbing to the present position, while Cisco spent 16 years.
Cisco is one of the most successful companies in the United States. Since the production of the first router in 1986, Cisco has accounted for the first or second market share in each of its enrolled, and has become a market leader. Since its launch in 1990, Cisco's annual income has risen from $ 69 million to $ 22.229 billion in fiscal 2001. The company has more than 36,000 employees worldwide.
Cisco M & A "Addiction", since the acquisition of Crescendo in 1993, Cisco has used 81 companies for ten years, and there has never been a company's acquisition as Cisco.
