The Goddess Shines on America

"So, the direct theme of our meeting today is how to build an information age. Throughout the world, the top computer companies are here, so compared with those ordinary small companies, this responsibility is not up to us. , what else should I do?"

After chatting and laughing, the topic returned to the main point: "That's right, friends, with the popularization of computers and the further development of the Internet, it can be easily calculated based on the current speed. In less than 20 years, Ninety percent of the world's wealth will be stored centrally in massive servers, not those cumbersome and ancient libraries."

These words were deeply recognized by everyone, especially Gates nodded the most seriously, Alice saw it in his eyes and smiled in his heart. After all, "The Road to the Future", the "twenty years later" he imagined in the 1990s, is really only more exaggerated, not less exaggerated.

Of course, as the creator of Moore's Law, how could Gordon Moore disagree with Alice?

In addition, the word "information age" was brought up so suddenly by Alice, but it also made everyone's eyes shine. Think about it carefully, the US information superhighway plan was only proposed by the senator in 1992. Although his behavior must be based on the will of the Silicon Valley tycoon, after all, it is only 1989, right?

"So for today's meeting, I invited Mr. Ellison from our Oracle company."

Respectfully raised her hand to the man on the left, Alice then smiled and said: "After all, our industries are all interconnected, various computer operating systems, CPUs at the core of computer hardware, routers and switches of Internet hardware, etc. Although these major industries constitute the information age, there is no doubt that one of the most critical elements is still lacking..."

"Honor, my database." With that said, it's time for Larry Ellison to speak. Unlike the others here, he found out that Baba came from San Francisco to attend this internal meeting after receiving Alice's email. He wanted to prove his role in this "internal meeting", not just relying on the meeting The host's eloquence can be achieved.

Therefore, he got up and said: "It's a great honor to be able to participate in this meeting. Microsoft, Cisco, Intel, you are all great glory of Silicon Valley, and you are all inextricably linked with our Ms. Alice-Wang Can receive her invitation to come to this high-end conference that gathers almost 40% of the best of Silicon Valley... Hehe, it’s time for my company to make further progress?”

Having said that, he did not forget to nod to Gordon Moore.

In front of the conference table, everyone in the Silicon Valley circle burst into a burst of "you know" laughter.

Isn't that the case? If it is said that Alice was the one who founded Cisco, then Microsoft can be said to have achieved success entirely by relying on her. As for Intel, although Alice just proposed an algorithm to optimize the CPU after becoming a shareholder, but in the face of AMD's relentless pursuit, any product performance improvement that does not increase the cost at all will bring infinite benefits to the company. Advantage.

Thinking about it, it's really admirable. When it's his turn to participate in the business management, the boss in front of everyone actually doesn't play any role at all. But this middle school student, who seldom makes public appearances in the company and the industry, throws out one or two technologies at random, and they are all good treasures that can scare people to death.

It's not that we can't live without her, but if we really do not have her, everyone can basically stop working - such a strange situation.

"Speaking of the information age proposed by Alice, we can conceive such a model." After a pause, Ellison continued: "PCs and enterprise computers in thousands of households are the leaves of a big tree. It relies heavily on the products of hardware vendors headed by Intel. Then, the end-users are directly facing users, supported by Microsoft's operating system, and Cisco's Internet hardware is responsible for supporting the construction of branches and transmitting the fundamental information sources. To thousands of households."

As he spoke, he spread his hands and said, "No, so everyone has also discovered the source of information. The database system produced by my Oracle company can guarantee to provide enough information sources to the society. After all, the so-called information age is fundamentally It lies in the amount of information that people can obtain, not in the performance of pure computer and Internet hardware. No matter how prosperous the branches and leaves are, without the support of roots and trunks, it can only be a castle in the air.”

The people around were nodding, and Gates stroked his chin silently, just like his good buddy Alan, just trying to figure it out. Larry Ellison, who is a native of Seattle, is not familiar with Gates, but seeing that the father-like middle-aged man speaks so well with Alice, it is obvious that they have already "hooked up" in various ways.

When did this happen? God knows, of course, it can't be too early, such an important meeting, how could it be possible to invite pure strangers by email without prior notice. Ellison's explanation is simple and easy to understand, and he particularly highlights his own importance, and everyone has to admit that the database is indeed of great significance in the construction process of the "information age".

"At present, there are still many database companies in Silicon Valley."

Gordon Moore opened his mouth, and the oldest senior opened his mouth. Even the middle-aged uncle had to be paralyzed immediately and sit down obediently.

"Sun Computer Systems went public three years ago." He said, "Maybe Mr. and Mrs. Posack have more say in this point?"

Everyone then turned their attention to the other two co-founders of Cisco. It is no secret to many people that the founder of Solar System, Andy Becketterson, was a graduate student at Stanford.

"A company founded by a genius." Posak said, and when he said this, of course, he also took a special look at the chief Alice: "When Andy was still studying, he designed a 'three million 'The small graphics computer is called a graphics workstation. The 'three million' refers to a computing speed of one million times per second, a memory of one million bytes and a graphics display of one million pixels. He adopted the Motorola 68000 processor, and used a very advanced memory manager chip at that time to support virtual memory..."

"Graphics workstation?" It was one of the two directors of A\u0026A who spoke, and John Warnock's eyes lit up: "Is it the ones that we Abode and Autodesk are using now? Their company...he used that thing when he was in college Designed it?"

"That's right, that's right, that's it. It seems that you are also his customers." Posak laughed and said, "According to Andy Becto's design, a graphics workstation is a professional , a general term for high-end special-purpose computers that work with video. Your companies that make image-editing software will buy their computers, normal, very normal!"

There was a burst of whistles immediately at the scene, and you see, this is a clear proof that in a booming industry, the insiders can really communicate with each other!

"In short, their strength is very strong." Posak continued: "The company was established in 1982, and the early workstations used Motorola's CPU. In 1985, they developed their own SPARC reduced instruction set processor. It has greatly improved the performance of the workstation, this, I believe Mr. Moore should be very familiar with it."

Gordon Moore nodded again and again, streamlining the instruction set, the performance of the final product can be increased by leaps and bounds without further improvement of the production process, how is this different from the benefits provided by Alice to Intel?

"So, Solar System is also a very powerful company, and it also happens to be in the server field, although their professional orientation is stronger." Moore took over Bosack's words and said to Larry Ellison : "But there is no doubt that this company is a strong competitor of Oracle, and the other party is in the comprehensive development of hardware and software, while Oracle focuses on the software field. Then Mr. Ellison, although Ms. Wang invited you to the conference, but We also need you to prove your strength to us. Why should we choose you instead of them?"

Damn it was so lively.

Alice obediently sat at the head of the table, watching the show continuously as the group of colleagues scrambled for each other.

Intel boss questioned Oracle's development potential?

Hey, the world's second largest software supplier in the future since 2013, this is a rich man worth over 40 billion U.S. dollars, this is, you question him?

If there is any problem, students can solve it by themselves after class, the teacher still has class.

"Ahem!" Ever since, Alice interrupted Ellison's self-proof that was about to speak: "In the field of hardware, don't we already have Intel? With you and Cisco, of course we don't need to repeat it." It is just an image workstation, and our focus is on the database itself. In this way, Oracle, which focuses on the software field, happens to be the best choice.”

When the boss opened his mouth, everyone retreated immediately. Anyway, Moore was just asking. For him, of course, it doesn't matter whether he cooperates with Solar System or Oracle. Since his little boss decides so, he should shut up when he should.

"So the basic situation is like this, as I announced at the inauguration ceremony just now." Alice sat in the chief seat, with her hands folded and her chin propped, overlooking the audience and said: "In order to make our group operate better, An The establishment of Brera Capital Investment Company is naturally imperative. The shares I occupy in each company will be assigned to this company in equal proportion, and at the same time, I will directly inject about 10% of the shares into Oracle With so many branching companies, there must be a central point, right?"

Words that sounded extremely rampant, but said in this situation, did not make anyone look angry at all. In the past five years, the behavior of participating in shares and acquisitions here and there has indeed established a new consortium in essence, a vortex of interests that completely revolves around a certain focus. How is it possible to say that the participants here did not think of this situation?

Sophie stayed silent, with a smile on her lips.