Global Monopoly of Technology

Bluestar Technology Group headquarters, internal executive meeting.

Zhang Bowen, who attended the meeting, said: "It's messed up, it's messed up, it's all messed up, and the whole northwestern Shanxi Province has become a pot of porridge..."

When everyone heard Lao Zhang suddenly say such a sentence, they all had a smile on their faces.

And Zhang Bowen continued to speak in a prudent manner: "Two years ago, the Internet rumored that Google was conspiring to acquire Sun Microsystems. It seems that it was not out of thin air. Oracle also came out at this time, and Sun Microsystems wanted to buy Sweden's MySQL company. The acquisition directly led to the participation of five or six IT multinational giants, making the whole situation chaotic and even impossible to start."

After a while, another executive who attended the meeting said with concern: "I can say that Bluestar Technology has completely destroyed all its competitors in terms of financial resources, but the key to this acquisition is not how much money it has, but how much money it has. It's because Bluestar's surname is 'Hua' and not 'Mei'. Even if Oracle and Google don't come out to disrupt this merger, it will be very difficult for them to succeed. If they jump out, it will really make things worse."

Obviously, the executive who spoke was pessimistic about the prospect of acquiring Sun, and the other attendees didn't speak, but basically tacitly acknowledged that fact.

Luo Sheng, who was relatively taciturn at the meeting, immediately asked in a deep voice, "If you want to win this scuffle, you must figure out the first point as soon as possible, who is our enemy and who is our friend. Or who might be our friend and who might be our enemy. If you don't figure this out first, you will lose."

Having said that, Luo Sheng looked at Zhang Bowen: "Didn't the negotiator at IBM say that he will be here today? What time?"

Zhang Bowen responded immediately: "I have already arranged the meeting time, it will be at 16 o'clock this afternoon."

Luo Sheng nodded, looked around at everyone, and said after a moment of silence: "We acquired Sun in order to build a full-service product line from software to hardware, but the key is the company's Java language, but even if we lose Sun Microsystems for It's not unacceptable to us, but MySQL can't give up, we have to win it no matter what, as long as MySQL is in our hands, whether Sun falls into the hands of Larry Ellison or Larry Page MySQL will always be a thorn in their throats.”

MySQL AB is the most popular open source database developer in the world today. Luo Sheng attaches more importance to this company. Once the merger is completed, in cooperation with the cloud computing service business segment of Bluestar Technology Group, it can quickly become a server other than IBM. , workstations, enterprise solutions, SPARC processors, storage devices and other hardware, the most powerful company.

...

afternoon,

Bob Swan, a global vice president sent by IBM, came to Bluestar Technology. He didn't even have a rest when he got off the plane.

In the reception room at the moment, Luo Sheng is having an interview with the person in charge sent by IBM.

"Mr. Swan, let's put aside the matter of the data center. Now we should talk about the matter of Sun Corporation." Luo Sheng said, looking at the middle-aged man with hooked nose sitting opposite him.

Bob Swan said without hesitation: "With all due respect to Mr. Luo, there is a 99% probability that your company wants to acquire Sun, either by running with Google, or by Oracle, or by IBM, you know, The speed of Bluestar Technology Group's expansion in North America has deeply disturbed the authorities, and there has never been such a brutal expansion of a Chinese company in the IT world."

Hearing this, Luo Sheng couldn't help laughing, put up his legs naturally, crossed Erlang's legs and smiled at the American in front of him and said, "This is a great ******* Bob Swan shrugged his shoulders.

"OK, let's open the skylight and speak eloquently." Luo Sheng put down Erlang's legs that had just been lifted up, leaned forward slightly, looked directly at Bob Swan, and said, "...Oracle has swept the software field and is in the Taking the opportunity to enter the hardware field, this move is bound to face the competition with IBM and HP. The original pattern of competition between IBM and HP will also be broken. The IT industry has entered the era of three-legged confrontation. I think your company should know better than me what this means. What, I know your company also wants to take Sun in order to prevent Oracle from invading your core territory."

Having said that, Luo Sheng leaned back on the sofa and crossed his legs again, watching Bob Swan and adding: "Oracle is a company with a personality, which is consistent with its CEO Larry Ellison. Features, I saw a news website commenting on Larry Ellison before: He is Patton, and Patton led the Third Army to swept the European battlefield during World War II."

Bob Swan looked at Luo Sheng suspiciously: "I don't understand what you mean, can you be more direct?"

Luo Sheng didn't know if he didn't understand or didn't understand, but if he was able to be sent by IBM to negotiate with him, he should have asked for it knowingly. Luo Sheng simply assumed he was pretending, and smiled: "Come on, Sun is seeking Merger and acquisition of MySQL AB, the world's most popular open source database developer, once the two companies merge and move into the arms of Oracle, you and I don't want to see it, right?"

Bob Swan was silent.

Luo Sheng said again: "Actually, I want to do the same."

Facing Luo Sheng's frank and frank words, Bob Swan's eyelids couldn't help but twitch, but he quickly recovered.

Yes, for IBM, Oracle is a big threat, and Bluestar Technology and Luo Sheng are equally big threats.

There is nothing to hide, everyone is a giant, and no one has a group of think tanks behind it.

Luo Sheng basically had a rough judgment in his own heart. It seemed that the chances of Bluestar Technology Group acquiring Sun were basically very slim, and the North American authorities could not pass the test.

Since this is an inevitable outcome, there is no reason to have a standoff with IBM at this time. At that time, large data centers will not be able to enter the North American market, and cloud computing services will lose even more if they miss the North American market.

On the bright side, although there is a standoff with IBM and HP and Intel can cooperate, but Luo Sheng is more inclined to cooperate with IBM, after all, in the server part, he prefers IBM's solution, which is also in this field. Number one player.

It's just that Luo Sheng didn't show this kind of thinking and was detected by IBM.

After a while, Luo Sheng said: "I have a compromise solution here, which may be acceptable to both IBM and Bluestar Technology Group. I think your company definitely doesn't want others to go deep into IBM's hinterland, and I don't want anyone else either. Go deep into the hinterland of my kingdom of Bluestar Technology. Very well, it seems that a delicate balance can be struck on this issue and a consensus can be reached."

Luo Sheng knew that if Bluestar Technology merged Sun and MySQL under its command, it would also become rivals with IBM and Hewlett-Packard, forming a three-pronged industry structure, so IBM would definitely make trouble and become an enemy, but on the other hand, as long as a little Plus adjustments, enemies can also become friends between fights.

The value of MySQL may only be about one billion US dollars, but it is the largest open source database system in the world, with a very far-reaching impact. It has become the de facto standard for open source databases. It is mainly used in small and medium-sized database applications and huge Internet back-end system applications. Bluestar Technology, Google, including most of the Internet companies in China, are built on this huge open source database system.

Bob Swan looked at Luo Sheng curiously: "Oh? I am willing to listen."

Luo Sheng said without hesitation: "I can give up Sun, and I don't care whether it belongs to Oracle or Google, but I don't care, but if MySQL belongs to me, IBM should actively promote it. , it's the most favorable situation for you, because you don't need to worry about threats at all, and it's acceptable to me."

"Whether Sun Microsystems falls into Oracle's hands or Google's hands, it will naturally drive us to reach an alliance between Bluestar Technology and IBM. Two-to-one, we can suppress our opponents."

As soon as this remark came out, Bob Swan fell into long thoughts. He was not in a hurry to respond, and Luo Sheng was not in a hurry to give an answer immediately.

No matter how you look at it, this is indeed a rather compromised plan, and both parties can accept such a result.

In this way, if Sun is acquired by Oracle, it will have to compete with Bluestar Technology. After all, the database application solutions for small and medium-sized enterprises have to rely on MySQL, which will break Larry Ellison's ideas to a great extent. Ambition, taking care of his own backyard will save him from tossing in the hardware field.

IBM and HP are enough for hardware, just like Intel is to AMD, the young couple lived a stable life, breaking into a nasty third party to break the balance, who won't you get?

At the end, Bob Swan finished thinking, looked at Luo Sheng and said, "I can't give you an answer right away."

Luo Sheng nodded happily and said with a smile: "No problem, we can talk about things slowly, I'm not in a hurry, IBM has enough time to think about it."

Bob Swan rolled his eyes madly in his heart, scolding this bastard without a backache standing and talking, of course you bastard is not in a hurry, but IBM is about to die.

The contract of the data center is about to be breached. It's just that I couldn't withstand the temptation of Luo Sheng's olive branch at the beginning. The contract of tens of billions of dollars plus the sky-high liquidated damages of billions of dollars. Anyone who sees it will have soft legs and will not be able to walk. move.

unless the contract is signed.

So IBM signed up.

It's just that IBM didn't expect that the North American authorities would be so obstructed. They thought about it, but they never thought that the force would be so large, far exceeding IBM's internal estimates.

And once it defaults, not only will the tens of billions of dollars of contracts be lost, but also a huge amount of liquidated damages.

It has to explode on the spot.

Fortunately, the progress of this matter is barely smooth. Although there are many twists and turns in the middle, and it took more than a year to make new progress, but as long as there is no default, we can earn tens of billions from Bluestar Technology safely and steadily. dollar bill.

Everything is worth it.

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[Everyone casts a monthly ticket. If you are going to be unable to keep the chrysanthemum behind, it is very scary. Hurry up and open the duck~~~]