Chapter 71 foreword

July 22, 2008 07:14:00 PM The famous Austrian biographer Zweig wrote in his book "When the Stars of Mankind Shine" that "a truly momentous moment of world history - before a moment of shining stars for human beings, there must be a long time. At this critical moment, those things that usually happen slowly and sequentially and in parallel are compressed into such a short moment that decides everything. This moment makes an irreversible decision for generations. It determines the life and death of a person, the survival of a nation, and even the fate of the entire human race.”

"In the great moments of man's fate, all the bourgeois virtues--care, obedience, industry, prudence--are of no avail; Reject the door. Destiny—another god in this world, is only willing to lift up the brave with warm arms and send them to the heaven of heroes." (Excerpt from the "triple version" translated by Shu Changshan) In the 1980s and 1990s, it was a shining era in the history of science and technology industry.What took half a century to happen in the era of AT&T and IBM may happen and end in this decade.In this great era, there are many companies that could have become the kings of the information industry, but they missed the opportunity in the end.These companies, no matter how great they were at the beginning, when it begins to decline, are forgotten faster than they decline.Today, we might as well take a look back at these lost or disappeared contenders. After all, they once dominated the information industry.Here, we'll cover Sun Microsystems, Novell, Netscape, and Real Networks.Among them, the article about Sun Company is the longest, because it has the greatest relative influence.Netscape used to be very well-known, but because its history of browser disputes with Microsoft is well known, we just briefly review this history and focus on whether it has the possibility of winning over Microsoft. Novell and Real Networks are less well-known, but they did have the possibility and opportunity to become giants in the IT industry, but they missed their fate for some reasons.