Global Monopoly of Technology

The time is getting closer and closer to September. Luo Sheng has completed a major strategic layout of the cloud computing service of Bluestar Technology Group, and left the rest of the affairs to Zhang Bowen and others to deal with. There was a little trouble in the middle, but it was not a big problem. .

And Luo Sheng also focused his work on Cote d'Azur.

"You let me pay attention to the situation of Sun Microsystems early. This company has made new moves recently." This morning, Qin Weimu came to Luo Sheng's office on the blue coast.

Sun Microsystems is an IT company that Luo Sheng has been paying attention to. It is also a North American high-tech company that he very much wants to acquire. This company is probably most famous for the Java language.

Luo Sheng put down his work and looked at Qin Weimu: "What action?"

"May 28th news, according to foreign media reports, online search giant Google is currently conspiring to acquire Sun Microsystems, which is in trouble." Qin Weimu gave him a sorted set of materials.

Luo Sheng took it over and opened it. The materials mainly collected some of the latest news in the industry.

In order to maintain continuous growth, Google may choose Sun, using its hardware, storage, StarOffice, JAVA and other product components a strong sustainable platform.

In Luo Sheng's last life, Sun Microsystems was eventually acquired by Oracle for $7.4 billion. At that time, Google, Oracle, and IBM were all competing, and Oracle, led by Larry Ellison, won in the end.

However, for Luo Sheng, the development trajectory of the previous life can only be used for reference. Now the world has undergone tremendous changes because of his appearance.

"The Internet rumors may be true. Eric Schmidt, the current CEO of Google, used to be the CTO of Sun Microsystems, and is the best person to broker this deal." Luo Sheng said to himself in a deep voice said.

Google's market value has fallen sharply recently, but according to Sun's current market value, Google doesn't have to pay a lot at all, and it's not difficult to acquire Sun.

However, the actual situation is not easy for Google, and the acquisition price is not a big problem for Google. How to integrate the cultures of the two companies is the key issue.

If you refer to the previous life, Google did not complete the acquisition in the end, but it is hard to say now.

"This bastard, Page, is really going to cause trouble for me..." Luo Sheng put down the material document in his hand and laughed to himself, but it also shows that Google is not a vegetarian, and Eric Schmidt has something.

It was not easy for Luo Sheng to acquire Sun.

There is no absolute certainty that he can do it, not because of the purchase price, but because of his identity as a Chinese.

If Google stepped in at this time, it would undoubtedly increase a layer of variables again.

Now the North American side of the data center is trying to block it. If it is to acquire Sun, it will be more difficult than this, even if the company has a market value of more than 200 billion US dollars at its peak, and now there is only about 18 billion US dollars left.

Sun Microsystems is destined to be a company that has a place in the IT world. It took nearly 20 years for this company to grow from entrepreneurship to prosperity, but it only took a year to collapse. In 2000, the Internet bubble burst. One of the epitome of tragedy.

The reason for its failure is that the mainstream hardware culture has misled Sun's development. The understanding of the market from the hardware manufacturer's point of view emphasizes high-end, low-volume, and high-value, and deploys network computers.

As for the features and functions of software products, the trend that software dominates the market is not worth mentioning in the face of sales metrics, partners, channel plans, and supply chains.

Sun's most valuable places are open systems and classic JAVA, but they are not well used.

Perhaps because the hardware and operating systems at the time were too good to sell, Sun only wanted to sell these things to large and medium-sized enterprises to build a hardware empire. But it ignores the small business and microcomputer user market that Microsoft and Intel are taking for free and selling services, and secretly fighting guerrilla warfare.

Of course, Luo Sheng really wanted to acquire Sun. The skinny camel was bigger than the horse, which was very beneficial to the future layout.

He didn't want to attack Sun at this time, because the price was still a bit high. Even if he wanted to acquire it, he had to complete the acquisition through the cross-shareholding method of Bluestar Technology Group, provided that the North American authorities did not obstruct it.

No matter how Sun declines, the current market value is still a technology company with a volume of tens of billions of dollars. Luo Sheng's calculus is to wait for the financial turmoil around 2007 or 2008. But it's hard to say.

Luo Sheng couldn't predict whether Google would take Sun, but he was absolutely sure that Laomei's credit default in 2007 would definitely not escape. The detonator had already been buried, and it was only a matter of time before it detonated. It only needs to look at the fact that half of the top ten listed companies in the world by market capitalization are financial companies.

When this storm hits, not only will Sun's share price plummet, but Luo Sheng will also have enough cash on hand to see the harvest, and the foreshadowing has already been laid.

While he was thinking, Qin Weimu stared at him and reminded him, "It's probably impossible to acquire Sun from the Côte d'Azur. First, without the financial resources to acquire it, and secondly, even with sufficient funds, the North American authorities may pass the test. No, the Côte d’Azur does not have the support of Wall Street, and the acquisition is also Bluestar Technology, and even Bluestar Technology may not be able to achieve it.”

Hearing this, Luo Sheng couldn't help but smile: "Then Bluestar Technology has ambitions, how do you know if you don't try?"

If it is based on the current market and environment, Qin Weimu is right, and there is little hope of acquisition.

Next year is still a chance. Next year's storm hits the old beauty, and there is no time to take it into account. In such a desperate time, the success rate is the highest.

If it is regrettable that Sun cannot acquire Luo Sheng, but it will not be too entangled, then MySQL AB from Sweden is bound to win. No matter how much effort this company spends, even through cross-shareholding into the bag.

Because it is very important to the data core of Bluestar Technology, MySQL is a completely free and open source relational data management system.

Compared with other large databases such as Oracle's Oracle, MySQL has its shortcomings, but this has not reduced its popularity in the slightest. For general individual users and small and medium-sized enterprises, MySQL provides functions. It's more than enough, and because it's open source software, it can greatly reduce the total cost of ownership.

Bluestar Technology could not afford expensive services such as Oracle in the early stage of its business. BlueSpace runs on MySQL, including now.

Facts have proved that MySQL can fully support large-scale applications, including the current Google database, Bluestar technology database, etc. are all supported by MySQL.

Especially in the Internet industry, 80% of the world's top 20 Internet companies are using MySQL databases.

At present, in the domestic Internet industry, it is difficult to find a few that are not supported by MySQL database. Only a few websites of Microsoft are not used. MySQL is undoubtedly the leader in this field, and if this company is acquired now, it will not exceed 1 billion. Dollar.

But for Luo Sheng, the biggest difficulty in acquiring MySQL is also not a matter of money.

If the problem that can be solved with money is really a small problem that is not worth mentioning, the problem is that the EU level is not so easy to pass, or is it because of his Chinese identity, Europeans and Americans are not interested in the Chinese people in the field of science and technology. The expansion of the company is actually very vigilant, especially this kind of acquisition, not that you can do it with money.

Unless Luo Sheng changes his nationality, it will definitely be much easier, and many obstacles will disappear.

But there is no doubt that there is no option to change nationality here in Luo Sheng.

Whether it is the acquisition of Sun in North America or MySQL AB in Sweden, it is not urgent for Luo Sheng to deal with it right now.

He needs time, opportunity, and opportunity. He needs to wait until the storm that sweeps the world comes before making further plans.

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