Global Monopoly of Technology

With the end of the year approaching and the new year approaching, Luo Sheng also began to arrange a series of plans for 2008 next year.

This morning, I came to Bluestar Technology Group to hold a meeting within the company. This time Qin Weimu was also present, but she attended the meeting as a legal consultant.

“…Wall Street investment bank Merrill Lynch announced three sale agreements to ease the current funding woes, while Goldman Sachs predicted that Citi, Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch may be writing down $34 billion in subprime mortgage bonds.” Qin Weimu, who was sitting in the conference room, said in an orderly manner:

“In addition, my statistical analysis of data from the American Banking Association shows that the overdue repayment rate of consumer credit defaults has risen to the highest level since 2001, and I personally predict that SIV bondholders may lose more than 45% of their debt. assets, but North American authorities have so far not come out to predict a recession.”

Luo Sheng glanced at Qin Weimu who had finished speaking, then turned to look around at everyone and said with a relaxed and pleasant smile: "The North American authorities will definitely not jump out and say that, they can delay a second if they can."

Another executive who attended the meeting said: "France's largest bank is frozen, consumer money market accounts have hit Europe, Greece and Iceland have basically collapsed, Spain has become precarious, and this financial crisis has swept through. The world is unavoidable, but there are still people who are still holding on, but everyone with a discerning eye knows that the big crash is either today or tomorrow, and it won't be too long."

Qin Weimu followed up and said: "I have systematically analyzed and analyzed the European sovereign debt situation in the past few days, and found that their debt burden has a default risk caused by exceeding their own tolerance, such as Greece's default risk. I personally Very not optimistic, on the European side... If the chain reaction is further triggered and leads to a sovereign debt crisis, Greece may face the risk of bankruptcy in the future.”

Greece goes bankrupt?

Luo Sheng and the others in the meeting were stunned. Although they were all stunned, Luo Sheng was different from others. The reason he was stunned was because he was very surprised by Qin Weimu's judgment. The European debt crisis could be dealt with by her Calculated so early?

No wonder Goldman Sachs generously extended an olive branch to her and invited her to work with Goldman Sachs on Wall Street.

At this time, one of the executives at the meeting looked at Qin Weimu in confusion and said, "Greece is bankrupt? Is this a bit exaggerated?"

Sovereign bankruptcy, can this also be bankrupted?

In the eyes of a Chinese, it is a very incredible thing, it is almost equivalent to changing the dynasty, so it is incredible.

Qin Weimu, who was present at the meeting, sat in her seat,

With a slender hand on his chin, he said thoughtfully: "Maybe my judgment is not correct, but this situation can exist objectively in the Western world. Since August this year, the Federal Reserve has responded by injecting liquidity into the financial system. With increased market confidence, U.S. stocks have also been able to maintain high levels, and the situation looks good.”

Having said that, Qin Weimu glanced at the executive, then turned his head to look at Luo Sheng and said, "...but don't forget that Regan has become the biggest loser in this economic crisis, and France's largest banking industry has frozen. Now, from a global perspective, Europeans are the biggest takers and losers. Personally, most of the losses from the subprime mortgage crisis have been passed on to Europe. I think the North American economy will recover soon after the collapse.”

"At the same time, although the causes of the European debt crisis and the sub-prime mortgage crisis that I personally predicted are different, from the perspective of the global economic system, the outbreak of the European debt crisis is largely the continuation and deepening of the US sub-prime mortgage crisis. "

"It is best if the European debt crisis doesn't break out. Once it breaks out, it is very likely that there will be 'black swan events' one after another, the euro area will face major shocks, and it is not impossible to even trigger a crisis of EU division..."

Obviously, Qin Weimu is not optimistic about the future situation of the European economy. In her opinion, Europe's debt burden has faintly exceeded her own range. In addition to this financial crisis sweeping the world, Europeans are actually more miserable than Americans. .

Luo Sheng, who had not spoken much, was stunned for a while listening to Qin Weimu's analysis. After a while, he smiled at Qin Weimu and said, "Wonderful, I think the Wall Street stage is the most suitable stage for you to display your financial talents. The place."

Everyone in the meeting looked at each other, listening to the boss's words, it seemed that they agreed with Qin Weimu's prediction?

Nonsense, Qin Weimu's prediction at the moment is almost exactly the same as that of his previous life. The European debt crisis broke out, Greece went bankrupt, and the United Kingdom left the European Union... All of them were predicted by her.

Luo Sheng even wondered if she was reborn too?

Qin Weimu Yan Zhan smiled: "I am also a subjective prediction based on limited data analysis. It is not supported by theoretical mathematical models, and it is not completely reliable. Don't take it too seriously. The risks here are very high. Be responsible!"

Seeing Luo Sheng's reaction just now, she worried that he would focus on Europe because of this. Others don't know Qin Weimu, but they know that Luo Sheng's offshore trust has huge funds of tens of billions of dollars, and they all make profits from short selling.

Luo Sheng smiled, looked away from her, and then looked around at everyone: "The general environment is almost sorted out, we are not a financial company, and it is enough to have a general understanding of the overall trend of global economic issues, and there is no need to explore in depth. Next It is the question of how we should respond in the current environment. For Bluestar Technology Group, the first big thing we will do in the next 2008 - bargain hunting!"

Having said this, Luo Sheng paused for a while, and then added after taking a sip of water: "The global economic collapse is a matter of time, it may be the immediate matter, the company's current book capital is 17 billion US dollars, I have decided to budget a few dozen first. $100 million to buy back Bluestar's stock when the economy collapsed."

"But don't think about it if you want to buy other technology companies with high-quality assets. It is impossible for Americans to let any foreigners go to their homes to support the market. Europeans can't do it, and I'm even more of a Chinese. It's basically going to be digested within Wall Street."

After speaking, Luo Sheng turned his attention to Zhang Bowen, who nodded silently, and immediately memorized his decision.

"The second thing is to make an offer to buy Sun Computer as soon as possible. If we can win this company, it will cost about seven or eight billion US dollars. This company is very bad now, and the Americans may let us in and eat it. , maybe, I don’t want to be able to acquire it, but I can do my best.” Luo Sheng added, after Zhang Bowen completed the memo, he looked at Qin Weimu and said, “Go back and say hello to Yao Jianhong and let him Go to Europe and buy MySQL into the Côte d'Azur, the company won't have the same attitude as Sun, and I'll take it no matter what."

Although this is the executive meeting of Bluestar Technology Group, Luo Sheng doesn't need to hide anything. Both companies are his. In fact, Bluestar Technology also needs MySQL.

At present, almost all domestic Internet companies, including Bluestar Technology, and international companies such as Google, use MySQL databases.

When Bluestar Technology started out, it built on the foundation of MySQL open source data to create today's huge Internet technology empire.

Comparatively speaking, the value of MySQL may only be about 1 billion US dollars, but Luo Sheng values ​​it more. Once he wins, Larry Ellison, the head of Oracle in the future, will not be able to sleep well. Saying that it will be as uncomfortable as being stuck in the throat is a secret key to going deep into the hinterland of Oracle's data kingdom.

Even if Luo Sheng didn't want to get Larry Ellison, it was very important to Bluestar Technology itself.

"How is the progress of the data center landing in North America?" After a while, Luo Sheng began to ask another topic, and Zhang Bowen, who was present at the meeting, immediately replied:

"This matter is not easy. The two sides have been negotiating fiercely for more than a year, but the recent progress has suddenly gone smoothly. As long as there are no accidents, the negotiations may be concluded within one or two months at the latest."

Luo Sheng nodded and said: "Then don't have an accident, land as soon as possible, and don't miss the opportunity. Who reported at the meeting a few days ago? It's not that Google, Amazon, and Salesforce are raising The expansion speed of the cloud computing service field, the longer we delay, the less our cloud service market share will be in the future, and the data center is the infrastructure of cloud services and must be fast.”

When he said this, Luo Sheng quickly and solemnly warned: "The premise of being fast is to ensure that you play according to the opponent's rules of the game, and absolutely cannot exceed the rules of the game set by the opponent. Such as bribery in the local area, whoever gets me kicked out. Once you do this, you will be exposed. In the future, the CIA will come to you and you will not even have room to refute. He can justly dismember you. We are not strong enough, our inner strength is not deep enough, we must avoid its edge and leave no braids, so it is quite difficult for them to push us out.”

Everyone nodded.

The business expansion of Bluestar Technology Group's cloud computing services in the North American market has always been blocked by the North American authorities and has been unable to obtain market access qualifications. Basically, no matter what you say, you are not allowed to enter.

The pressure on both sides is actually great. To be precise, there are three parties. Bluestar Technology is one party, IBM is one party, and the North American authorities facing the economic collapse are also one party.

For Bluestar Technology, the pressure comes from the fact that the opportunity may only come once.

Now Laomei can't take care of herself, the economic damage has already affected the real economy from the virtual economy in the financial field, and is frantically saving the market. If you miss this opportunity, it will be even more difficult to enter in the future;

For IBM, it is the most urgent party, because if it drags on, not only will this tens of billions of dollars of strategic contracts have nothing to do with IBM, but they will also face breach of contract and pay high liquidated damages. At the same time, Intel is also staring at this Shanzi, still working in the dark.

For the North American authorities, it is also very tangled. Now the economy is collapsing, millions of people are unemployed at the same time, the people are dissatisfied, and the situation is turbulent. If Bluestar Technology's cloud computing business expands in North America and builds data on a large scale It is self-evident that the huge volume of tens of billions of dollars can bring about many jobs. It is impossible for North America not to blink an eye, especially at this juncture.

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