Rewrite the Technological Landscape

At 10 o'clock in the evening on August 10, Meng Qian came to the Yanjing Olympic Basketball Stadium to watch the match between the Huaxia Men's Basketball Team and the American Men's Basketball Team.

In this life, the Olympic Games in Huaxia attracted more people, so there is naturally a lot of Meng Qian's credit here, and some people came for Meng Qian.

In this match between China and the United States, Meng Qian was arranged in the VIP room, and at this time there was also an old friend of Meng Qian, Samuel from IBM, who was already in the VIP room.

"It's really thanks to Mr. Meng's honor to have such a good place to watch the game."

Meng Qian stepped forward to shake hands with Samuel, "No, I planned to bring some beauties here."

Samuel laughed a few times, "I will remember Mr. Meng's love."

The two looked at each other and smiled, and after a few pleasantries, the game began.

The U.S. team got the ball, but was interfered out of bounds. The opening was exactly the same as in the previous life, but Meng Qian's long-standing doubts came to mind again.

"The world always feels infinitely close to being unaffected by oneself. What is wrong? Or is the butterfly effect not a correct theory?"

Just when Meng Qian was puzzled, Dayao caught the pass steadily and scored a three-pointer steadily.

"Strike!" Samuel's applause brought Meng Qian back from his thoughts, and cheers erupted in the stadium.

Meng Qian pulled himself back, "Who is Mr. Samuel's favorite star?"

"O'Neal." Samuel blurted out, "He has strong dominance, what about Mr. Meng? Which star do you like the most?"

"Iverson."

Samuel seemed to have some surprises, maybe he thought Meng Qian would say Dayao, "Why Iverson?"

"Maybe it's because he has a strong sense of sadness."

Samuel was even more curious, "Mr. Meng likes regrets? It's really hard to associate Mr. Meng with regrets."

"I saw a report submitted by the company some time ago, and found a genius in a Hope Primary School funded by us. This child is extremely talented, but because of the poverty of his family, he cannot receive a better educational environment.

He has to help his parents with farm work every day, leaves early and returns late, a child who works very hard, but if it wasn't because we found him, he might have spent his whole life in that small mountain village.

But he was a genius, a real genius. "

Samuel really pondered for a while, "Maybe this is why God arranged for Mr. Meng to meet him."

Meng Qian couldn't help smiling, "I am a person favored by God, and I have always felt that God gave me such treatment, maybe it is to let me make up for some regrets."

Samuel didn't hear the deep meaning of Meng Qian's words, and started the topic he had prepared, "GM's stock price has fallen below 10 yuan, Mr. Meng knows?"

"Well, the subprime mortgage crisis has actually turned into a global financial crisis, but some people don't want to admit it."

"How far does Mr. Meng think this financial crisis will develop?"

"In fact, it's not going to be a big deal. In the long river of history, it's just another big adjustment that goes on and on again. The front of a crisis is a crisis, and the back of a crisis is actually an opportunity.

There are always people who die because of crises, and there are always people who are born because of crises, just wait and see. "

"Mr. Meng's perspective on problems is always different from that of ordinary people."

Meng Qian raised his eyebrows and smiled, "I believe that Mr. Samuel understands better than I do. I'm just young and playful, and I don't have your calmness."

Samuel understood Meng Qian's words this time. Naturally, he did not come to China purely to watch the Olympic games, nor did he come here to chat with Meng Qian today. "Since Dafeng Group took the lead in integrating cloud computing into database After that, the impact on the entire industry is not small."

"I have to thank IBM for this matter. My inspiration still comes from your platform." Meng Qian took advantage of the situation to reduce his prophetic factor, "IBM's product updates should be in sight, right?"

"Of course, thanks to the help of Dafeng Group, but recently I read the report of the technology department, it seems that our two companies have encountered some underlying patent problems when they plan to further speed up the optimization of database algorithms, and this problem may not only involve databases. .

So when I came to China this time, I also wanted to talk to Mr. Meng about this problem. I think it's time for our two companies to consider a solution. "

Meng Qian asked the question directly, "What's Mr. Samuel's idea?"

Samuel thought about it for a while, and it didn’t make much sense to fight for the initiative at this time, “As Mr. Meng said, behind the crisis is an opportunity, but this kind of opportunity is for those who are prepared and capable. of.

Under this crisis, some companies that have lost their roots have begun to expose their core problems, and we can consider taking action. "

After Meng Qian and Samuel exchanged glances, he said directly, "IBM wants to accept Oracle?"

"To be precise, it's us."

Meng Qian shook his head with a smile, "The Dafeng Group's acquisition of Oracle cannot pass the regulatory barrier. An anti-monopoly law is enough to keep us out."

"But Dafeng Group can get technology, our cooperative relationship has always been there."

Meng Qian knew that IBM must have encountered problems in acquiring Oracle, so he simply asked, "What can we do for IBM?"

"Mr. Meng is clear about Oracle's upper-level relationship, and this is one of the factors that Oracle can successfully survive the previous crisis. But at the end of this year, the major events in our country are about to come to fruition, and the sudden financial crisis has revealed Oracle's The veil of crisis that tries to hide.

Under the double pressure, it will be easier for us to pass a resolution on the acquisition of Oracle. Now we are still short of strength, a provocation from external forces. "

Meng Qian narrowed his eyes and smiled, "IBM hopes that Dafeng Group will make a high-profile acquisition of Oracle to put pressure on some people."

"exactly."

"But it's still the same problem. With the anti-monopoly law in place, they don't have to worry about our acquisition, right?"

Samuel suddenly said meaningfully, "On the EU side, we can do some activities."

Meng Qian's eyes moved slightly. This was very important information for Meng Qian. It's interesting that IBM's hand can reach the EU regulatory authorities.

It is definitely impossible for Oracle and Meng Qian to rob IBM, and it is impossible to rob it. This favor must be done, but if IBM can really extend its hand to the EU.

Meng Qian felt that it was a good time to say something, "Then I can rest assured that we will definitely cooperate with IBM on this matter. By the way, since IBM is planning to acquire Oracle, does it have any plans to acquire Sun Micro?"

Meng Qian's question made Samuel suddenly pause. Of course IBM thought about it. It used to be that IBM and Oracle competed for Sun Microsystems, but they were eventually acquired by Oracle.

But in this life, because of the opportunity to acquire Oracle, IBM is more inclined to acquire Oracle. As for the acquisition of the two companies together, even IBM does not have so much money.

The combined purchase price of these two companies is almost 15 billion yuan. Now that it is in a financial crisis, it is impossible to come up with so much cash.

So in this life, the acquisition of Sun Micro has been put on hold, but both Samuel and the IBM board of directors have this idea in their hearts.

Samuel finally decided to give Meng Qian a little sincerity, "Of course we had this idea, Sun Micro is a very good acquisition target for us."

"So the current lack of acquisition intention is due to financial considerations? The pressure to acquire Oracle and Sun Microsystems at the same time will be great."

"Indeed."

Meng Qian began to ask, "Where is IBM's greatest interest in Sun Microelectronics? It should be the server system solaris and the MySQL database management system?"

"In addition to server systems and databases, the overall software level of Sun Microsystems is also very important to us. Now the software market has accounted for 35% of our IBM's profit source.

Moreover, Sun Microsystems has an ecosystem of more than 1 million enterprise software developers and 9,000 independent software manufacturers. "

Meng Qian was probably thinking about what IBM wanted, "Mr. Samuel, since we can buy Oracle together, can we also buy Sun Microsystems together?"

Samuel immediately became aware that he was going to compete with IBM for Sun Microsystems. "Mr. Meng is interested in Sun Microsystems?"

"Are you interested? In fact, everyone knows that Sun Microsystems has great technology. It has always encountered various problems over the years. The core is that this company does not understand marketing and has been suppressed by Microsoft. .

So at the beginning of the subprime mortgage crisis, Sun Microsystems immediately exposed problems after the market shrank. They had a debt of 1 billion yuan in just one year, and they had almost no talents available on the marketing side. At this time next year, I am afraid that Sun Microsystems' debt must start at 2 billion yuan.

This is the best opportunity to acquire Sun Microsystems. "

Samuel Meng Qian said naturally understands and agrees. Facing the financial crisis that brought IBM a 30% market shrinkage, IBM had to bite the bullet and compete with Oracle for Sun Microsystems because of this company. It's really awesome on a technical level.

As long as Sun Microsystems can recruit a few marketing talents, there is a high probability that it will be the top leader in Silicon Valley.

So the financial crisis is indeed the best time to acquire Sun Microsystems. After the financial crisis is over, they will be more aware of their own marketing disadvantages, and they may spend a lot of money to recruit marketing talents, or they will Just relying on the technology to develop rapidly after the financial crisis, don't even think about buying at that time.

"Where is Sun Micro's greatest need for Gale Group?" Samuel asked tentatively.

Meng Qian expressed his intention to open his mind, "Mr. Samuel is clear that our Dafeng Group has never planned for the server field. The acquisition of Sun Micro is more about the software direction, especially Sun Micro. Sun Micro's Java technology platform, meanwhile, we are also interested in Sun Micro's UltraSPARC processor."

Meng Qian's words are tantamount to extracting Sun Microsystems' technologies in the server, system and database fields. Although Samuel still prefers to eat alone, but from the current cash flow of IBM, it is difficult. "So Mr. Meng's idea is to split?"

Meng Qian nodded, "After the split, we can authorize each other for all technologies."

Meng Qian firmly grasped that now is the best time to acquire Sun Micro, and at the same time proposed a mutual authorization model. At least in the past few years, the alliance between Dafeng Group and IBM has been very good, so Samuel Er also likes to cooperate with Meng Qian very much, this is the trust that has been continuously built up during the long-term cooperation.

Therefore, although this matter still needs to be discussed with the board of directors, Samuel has already begun to communicate with Meng Qian about the details of the acquisition of Oracle and Sun Microsystems.

"The performance of the Huaxia men's basketball team is really good today." After chatting and chatting, the game was over, and Samuel gave a compliment, "It's a pity that the strength gap between the two sides is still too big, but it's an honor to lose."

"This is probably a victory for both sides."

Samuel subconsciously looked at Meng Qian, "Mr. Meng is right."

The two looked at each other and smiled, but their understandings were actually different.