Time Smuggling Starting from the Year 2000

The most famous state in Livonia is Hollywood in Los Angeles. Everyone knows that the capital is Sacramento. The sign that reminds people of this confusing place name is the Sacramento Kings, a former strong team in the NBA.

Oracle Corporation is located in Redwood City, the only deep-water port south of San Francisco in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is a small town with only 8 residents. There are two most impressive companies in this city, the headquarters of EA and a studio of Blizzard, but the latter will be withdrawn at the end of the year

It is close to the beach and has a pleasant climate, but the only thing Huang Xuan remembers is the description on the family stove: 2 Senate seats, 53 House of Representatives seats, 55 electoral votes, and the last two are the first in the United States. That means California is the most important week in American politics.

Sitting in the Lincoln car, Huang Xuan looked at the energy screen and recalled what his mother had taught him before, and listened to the employees of Oracle explain the history of Redwood City and Oracle to him in stuttering Chinese. A software company such as Oracle will have research groups such as the Japan Project Department and the China Project Department. The number of Asian employees is second only to Hispanic employees, but judging by the performance of this guy, it is really not flattering.

Yu Liye's English is not very good, and Gan Lizheng beside him is a sea turtle. He didn't bother to listen to this kind of chewing gum Chinese, so he tilted his head and asked Huang Xuan, "Mr. Huang, what is your purpose this time?"

Huang Xuan smiled inscrutablely and profoundly, but shook his head without mentioning it. Gan Lizheng curled his lips. He didn't really believe that the two encryption algorithms that Huang Xuan presented were made by him, but there was indeed no similar algorithm on the market. He was quite curious when he came to Oracle this time.

The person who came to receive the reception was Mark Jarvis, the marketing director of Oracle Corporation. He was wearing a gray suit with a black lapel thin sweater inside. The nearly 60-year-old California native has high cheekbones. There are two deep eye sockets. If you see it at night, you will be shocked. He is quite enthusiastic, but he just identified the wrong person. He mistakenly thought that Yu Liye was the chairman of Hexin Industrial in the invitation letter of Citigroup.

Of course, judging by his age, Yu Liye is in his prime, which really fits the definition of a rich man. But he himself just smiled and introduced Huang Xuan: "This is the chairman of Hexin Industrial. Mr. Huang Xuan."

The short sentence was translated accurately. Mark immediately patted his forehead in embarrassment and apologized: "I didn't expect Mr. Huang to be so young. He is really young."

Huang Xuan shook hands with him indifferently, and said in English: "Most people think so."

After a few casual greetings, Mark obviously thought that Huang Xuan wanted to buy their database system. Therefore, we will focus on introducing the latest version of their database, 10g. Oracle is the only company in the world that can implement global e-commerce solutions for customer relationship management-operation applications-platform facilities. Mr. Huang's business is spread across Brazil and China. I believe that using Oracle's solutions will definitely save a lot of your office costs. "

Huang Xuan raised his eyebrows and said, "Actually, I also have a database system in hand. If possible, I would like to compare the two systems."

"Okay." Mark didn't expect it to be so easy to achieve the intention, and he ordered his men to prepare. One side said: "The whole world believes that Oracle is the best database management company in the world."

"ibm and microsoft are also interested in entering \u003e\u003e.

"They're not good enough yet." Mark paused and said, "Just this year, we've acquired PeopleSoft and Hiber Software, greatly enhancing Oracle's strength in enterprise software and customer relationship software. To put it bluntly, if ibm also uses our solution to drop 10"

Cost reduction has always been the trick that Oracle is famous for. In the classic case of Harvard, Oracle's $1 billion reduction plan is listed.

Huang Xuan had already done his homework on the plane. Seeing more than a dozen professionals busy preparing for the start-up, he secretly smiled inwardly. The software in his hand came from IBM a few years later: Viper, this is what IBM announced to The database is an information system platform for hierarchical databases and relational databases. Although at present, the application of hierarchical databases is far less extensive than relational data. But it represents the future development direction: purexml (pure xml, extensible markup language) technology.

Although the HTML currently used on the Internet is very good at layout and appearance, it lacks the ability to express content, which makes it difficult for Internet users to find useful information for themselves. Specifically, html is good at human-computer interaction, but cannot well support the interaction between machines. We know that search engines collect website information through web spiders, that is, machines, and the html design structure of each website is different, and it includes many tags that look very similar. The biggest difference between xml and html is that tags can be customized, and tags can be defined in a form that fully expresses the meaning, so that web spiders can easily find the corresponding content and classify it. At the same time, because it is based on unicode, it can define multiple languages ​​including Chinese.

In the mouths of professionals, xml has extremely good genes, but because it is not compatible with relational databases (xml is hierarchical), using xml in existing database software is like an application simulator. performance is greatly affected.

Now, oracle has realized the problem of xml, and is committed to developing an information platform that is compatible with hierarchical and relational databases.

Even Microsoft, in the era of the decline of Oracle's famous relational database, is just around the corner.

Of course, Oracle may not need to come up with such an advanced database this year. After all, xm is not yet popular, and few companies have similar needs, but what Huang Xuan has in hand represents something else: patents.

The U.S. Patent Office is under the Ministry of Commerce, and the administrative officials of the Ministry of Commerce are usually used by the ruling party to distribute fat, and now they are owned by the Republican Party (for example, the director of the Patent Office is a political officer, and it is played by a professional politician. The deputy director is the affairs Officials are not affected by party changes, and they cannot be dismissed without a reason), so when Huang Xuan expressed his Republican leanings, he applied for some temporary patents and immediately got a special case.

Senator Melvin even greeted the Ministry of Commerce through her assistant, because Huang Xuan assured her on the phone that he would definitely donate a lot of money in the election at the end of the year - in the United States, being able to donate and being able to collect donations are both The first priority of a politician's job.

holding these patents. Huang Xuan couldn't imagine the expressions of the gentlemen of Oracle. The reason why db29 is code-named Viper just shows IBM's expectations for it. After 3 years in advance, the Viper can completely swallow Oracle, which is not even ready for a stick. .

A guy who is said to be a senior engineer adjusted the test machine, walked over wiping his hands, and nodded at Mark. Then he said to Huang Xuan: "Mr. Huang, you can try it. This is specially modified according to the conditions in Brazil and China."

Large companies are good at this. They have already designed models for hypothetical business objects, and they can be used when needed. Huang Xuan kept silent, and Gan Li was standing at the front, listening to the engineer's speech.

Huang Xuan took out a CD from the inner pocket of his upper body suit,

Ke said: "Mr. Jarvis, can you install this database and try it?"

"Okay." Although this kind of thing is not often encountered. Mark still handed the disc to the staff beside him, and asked casually, "Which company's product is this?"

"Xinye Company." Huang Xuan's answer made Yu Liye a little at a loss, but when he looked at Huang Xuan's eyes again, he immediately lowered his head.

Mark was suspicious. As Yu Liye said, the cost of developing a database software will definitely be so high that a small company will die of poverty. On the other hand, the mainstream in the market is still relational databases, and the main reason for ibm and microsoft is that, Oracle owns most of the patents.

It is definitely a ridiculous thing to use other people's patents to spend a lot of money to make database software. Mark didn't believe that a 3 billion rich man would be so stupid.

The two engineers started debugging again, but they couldn't enter the background management of the software anyway, so Huang Xuanshi walked over calmly. Type in a string of passwords, and then drink coffee again. All the contents of this disk are encrypted using future algorithms, which Huang Xuan called number three. And as long as it does not enter the market for sale, the energy consumption caused by this algorithm will be very small.

The new interface gave Mark a sense of familiarity. In fact, by the time the software started running, Mark was already very familiar with the interface.

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It's completely Oracle style, but Oracle doesn't have the same interface yet.

This made the Oracle employees present a little angry, and an engineer was very dissatisfied: "This is plagiarism."

"The patent law allows me to do this." Huang Xuan glanced back at him, and said to Mark: "Seamlessly compatible with hierarchical databases and relational databases, if necessary, the two parts can be sold separately."

A familiar interface will make it easier to sell. For example, people are familiar with word and wps are easy to sell, so they must learn and learn more. In this regard, the definition of patent law is very weak.

"Huh?" Mark is actually not very familiar with these technical problems, but the technician next to him has heard it clearly, and Jiali, the highest-ranking engineer present, widened his eyes and said: "This is impossible, you are, This is blatant plagiarism."

"If you've read the content, you won't say that anymore." Huang Xuan said reassuringly, this database system comes from IBM, and the reason why IBM took so long to enter the database market is to avoid Oracle Of course, there may be one or two patents that have not yet expired, but that is not the point. After the market determines the ownership, some lawyers can carry out such protracted lawsuits until the patents expire.

The new database software has no other shortcomings except that it consumes some resources. Mark asked the technician next to him in a low voice, and soon his face turned pale.

Larry Ellison, the founder and CEO of Oracle, is lying on the table saying that tomorrow's speech is written. He likes to bite the pen holder to consider, not the end of the pen, but the middle of the pen holder like a dog bites a bone. This seemed to allow him to find his balance.

Just writing, "If we don't engage in this project, I will feel weird." Ellison bit the pen again, and said to himself: "Maybe the word project is a bit small..."

His secretary knocked heavily on the door, and Ellison impatiently said, "I'm busy."

"I'm sorry, sir." The secretary didn't leave, and continued: "Mr. Mark is in trouble, he said, it's a big trouble."

"He's always exaggerating." Ellison crossed out "Project" without looking up.

"Nussbaum also thinks this is a big problem." Nussbaum is a vice president and he is familiar with technical issues within the group.

Ellison finally put down his pen, tidied his clothes, got up and opened the door and said, "If it's not a trouble that I have to go to, I'll wring their heads off."

"As long as it's not mine." The secretary didn't know what happened, so he still made a joke.

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Huang Xuan sat on the sofa with his legs crossed, feeling like he was kicking the hall. The people in the room were divided, and the technicians gathered together and glared at Huang Xuan, while Mark and the others greeted Huang Xuan with unchanged expressions. Oracle's top officials are all professional managers. They fight for the interests of Oracle, but they will not work hard because of Oracle. Who knows if the young people in front of you will become your boss in an hour, they just need to do their own work Things just work.

Ellison hurried out of the special elevator, turning his head with his coat tied on the way, and his leather shoes were shiny.

At this time, it was already 4, and many employees who left early could see the sound of Ellison walking quickly on the road. Most of them did not avoid it, but casually guessed the identity of the company's largest shareholder. where to go.

Nussbaum was waiting at the door. When he saw Ellison, he immediately opened the door, put his head next to his ear and whispered what happened just now, and said, "I'm sure the patent has been applied for."

Ellison nodded slightly, instead of going into the room, he asked first, "What do you think?"

"It's much more advanced than 10g." Nussbaum also shook his head regretfully, "It's possible if it's a new product from Microsoft."

"Is it his then?"

"The patent applied for the day before yesterday." Nussbaum said softly, "It does belong to him."

"I understand." After Ellison finished speaking, he walked into the room with a smile, looked around, found Huang Xuan easily, and said with a smile, "Hello, Mr. Huang, I didn't neglect you."

"The coffee is delicious." Huang Xuan raised his cup.

"That's good." As Ellison said, he turned around and talked about the database software in an indirect way.

Huang Xuan followed him around, and when he couldn't speak clearly, he pretended that he couldn't pronounce correctly or didn't understand, which made it impossible for Eric to discuss professional issues. He thought he was just a kid who was easy to deal with, but he didn't. Thinking that the other party was also familiar with the negotiating table, after wasting more than ten minutes, he finally mentioned the software in Huang Xuan's hand, and said, "The database software developed by Mr. Huang himself?"

"It still makes sense." Huang Xuan smiled. It's easy to see whether the database software is good or not. As for whether it's easy to use, that's another matter.

Ellison pursed his lips and said with a smile to the people around him: "Compared with Japanese things, they are indeed much better."

Several people laughed. Huang Xuan just smiled faintly, and said: "It's a few years ahead of Oracle's technology, I really can't comment, but if Oracle is not interested, I will cooperate with IBM."

Compared with Microsoft, Ellison is actually more afraid of IBM. Big Blue has always been a giant, an unrivaled behemoth, and every time its response is a little bit quicker, its market share will shrink by 5%.

Ellison didn't know that Huang Xuan had seen through his cards long ago, and still wanted to steal: "OK, 30 million US dollars, pay in cash."

"If you count patents, it will cost 2 billion U.S. dollars, or cash plus equity

"Are you crazy?" Ellison could hardly believe that Huang Xuan would put forward such excessive conditions. .