Chapter 244: Technology Monopoly

The Oracle Board of Directors, assuming that they had relented and expelled Lark Exxon, who had angered Zhang Yi, would have died down and given up the action of exposing the Orik database vulnerability.

Unexpectedly, Zhang Yi was not moved at all, and still announced it at his own pace, every three days, and summed up, the database vulnerabilities that have been published are close to nearly a hundred, most of which exist in all versions of the Orrick database, which makes the patching work extremely heavy, so that the technicians, in the vast sea of different versions of the software source code, patch so many vulnerabilities together in a short period of time, which is a task that cannot be completed at all.

In fact, all the software companies in the world will probably have to kneel in the face of this situation, even the stronger software giants like IBM or Microsoft.

There are some white-hat hackers who specialize in publishing vulnerabilities in the vendor's software system, relying on the vulnerabilities they find, providing them to the vendors, and the vendors will generally give a certain amount of economic compensation, and then quickly patch the vulnerabilities, and after the patching is completed, the white-hat hackers will publish the vulnerabilities.

In this way, the vendors close the loopholes, and the hackers get a financial benefit, and everyone is happy.

However, the loopholes announced by Zhang Yi are like a blowout, a large number of serious and difficult to patch vulnerabilities are intensively announced in a very short period of time. But he didn't accept the olive branch of the oracle bone at all, and he couldn't look at the manufacturer's financial compensation.

What is his motive?

Many discerning people in the industry, at this time, can already see it. This young man has already set his sights on the Oracle Bone Company, and he will not stop until he kills the other party.

To say that just because Lark Exxon's big mouth offended him, it seems a bit unreasonable to make such a dead hand. What's more, as an apology, the board of directors has kicked Exxon out of the company, and at this time, he should have vented his anger and given up revenge.

However, he still announced the vulnerabilities of Orrick's database step by step, without any influence from the outside world.

Looking at the momentum of the downward trend of the oracle company's stock on the computer screen, Zhang Yi showed a demonic smile.

The phone rings and picks it up.

"Hey, Zhang Yi, it's me. ”

"Oh, Jobs, what's the matter?"

"The Oracle Board of Directors asked me to send a message through a friend, see what conditions you have, and everyone can sit down and talk. Now the funds they use to lift the stock are basically exhausted, and the stock is about to collapse! In addition, many of their customers have sued them in court, demanding that they pay a huge amount of damages, and once the court trials, the company will be completely destroyed. ”

"Oh", Zhang Yi did not reply, and the phone fell silent.

"Zhang Yi, I want to ask, do you have any grudges with this company that you can't resolve? Is it you the mysterious person who suppressed Sam Country's technology stocks last time?"

Zhang Yi was still silent, but his heart was shaken, and the shrewd Jobs guessed something.

"You don't want to say it, and I don't want to know, I just want to ask you, last time it was to buy low and sell high to obtain economic benefits, and this time, you didn't take advantage of the fire to rob the other party's company, but you still used technical means to continue to suppress the other party, what is it for?"

Yes, Jobs's guess is very correct, he is not for fame or profit, why the hell is he suppressing oracle bones.

In fact, it just stems from an obsession in the previous life, and in the minds of programmers, the concept of oracle bone is completely contrary to the concept of open source.

Not only did he use rhetoric and deception to acquire Sun Microsystems, but he also wanted to use the open-source JA VA high-level programming language to make money, and he also wanted to charge for the open-source database Mysql, and even used the copyright in his hand to sue Internet companies everywhere, becoming a cancer in the software industry.

Such a company disgusts most programmers, but the individual programmers who are soft-spoken cannot affect the giant Oracle Software Company in the slightest, no matter how angry they are.

However, the current situation is different, Oracle is still only a second-rate software company, and it is not very competitive before the acquisition of Sun Microsystems.

At this time, don't take the opportunity to step it into the mud, so that it will never be able to turn over, and out of the sulking breath in the chest in the previous life, when will it be.

"Old Joe, if I tell you, it's because I hate this company, do you believe it?"

"I hate this company!" Mr. Jobs said to himself, for a reason that he didn't expect.

He was wondering, what did this company do, what disgusting thing?

A second-rate database software company, a big-mouthed CEO, and that's it, as if I really can't think of anything annoying about it.

Zhang Yi's approach is no longer hateful, it can be said that he hates it to the core.

Otherwise, it can't be explained, the other party's stock has been suppressed by Zhang Yi into a junk stock.

From the earliest value of ten dollars per share, to now, in less than a month, less than a dollar per share, has been classified as junk stocks.

Jobs' phone call went to no avail, which also extinguished the belief of the shareholders of the board of directors who were trying to save it.

They have consulted many industry leaders, and everyone said frankly that Zhang Yi's software technical strength is obvious to all, and if such a rhythm of vulnerability announcement is maintained, any software company can only choose to go out of business. There is no second possibility.

Even Jobs privately admitted that if Zhang Yi used this method to deal with Apple, Apple would not be able to bear it.

At this time, everyone realized that the most terrifying thing about that young man was not business acumen, but the technical strength of software. This is above board, with the crushing of the technical red fruit fruit, if you can survive it, you can survive, if you can't stand it, you can only Game Over.

From this moment on, Zhang Yi has also completely established himself as a top technical celebrity in the software field.

And under this crown, there is a lot of white bones, and the latest one is Oracle Bone Software Company.

Two months ago, Lark Exxon lashed out at Zhang Yi with a big mouth, a month later, he was ousted from the company he founded, and the next month, the market value of Oracle Bone fell by 90 percent.

This matter has been widely talked about in the scientific and technological circle of the Celestial Empire, and no one thought that Zhang Yi, who has always been low-key in China, will bled a listed company to death in Sam Country.

And the insiders in Sam's Country were silent for a while about this young man's ruthless methods. Everyone has a scale in their heart, and they weigh themselves and others. No technology company dares to say loudly that its own products are not afraid of others announcing vulnerabilities, and if they are only individual vulnerabilities, it is a good thing that can contribute to better products. But you can't stand it, a batch of vulnerabilities were announced in three days, and it has lasted for more than two months, and it is still being announced endlessly.

The idiom that the tree falls and scatters is not only applicable to the Celestial Empire, but also to Sam Country.

Looking at the oracle bone company, which is gradually sinking and about to be roofless, the shareholders have also cut their flesh and left the scene, scattering birds and beasts. The company's headquarters and all fixed assets, vehicles, office equipment, etc., were all seized by the court, and bank accounts were frozen.

Looking at the desolate scene of the company being messy and empty, Exxon felt sad in his heart, he really didn't expect that his big mouth would bring ruin to the company he founded.

In the stock market, Oracle Bone was forcibly delisted, and investors lost all their money.

In order to compensate the many plaintiffs, the court forcibly auctioned off the assets of the oracle bone, including a series of assets such as the copyright of the Orrick database owned by the company.

In the auction hall, after seeing Zhang Yi sitting in the front row, interested buyers sighed in their hearts, is this also interested in Oracle Bone Company?

Zhang Yi sat there, squinting his eyes, Erlang's legs trembled slightly, and the headphones hanging on his ears showed that he was listening to music.

The special auction was carried out quickly, and as expected, the auction was conducted without a reserve price. Because the buyer not only has to compensate the customer for the loss, but also has to solve the problem of patching the vulnerability, the receiver has to face a mess.

When shouting out the unreserved price, the first person to hold up the sign was Zhang Yi's assistant, which said "One dollar!"

Under Zhang Yi's instructions, the assistant also held a sign to show the people around him, the meaning of this circle, everyone understood, this is a demonstration, whoever dares to rob will be given a good look.

In fact, not everyone is afraid of Zhang Yi's threat.

But anyone understands that if this person continues to do it, the oracle bone after getting it will also be a hot mountain.

Because you don't know if there are more loopholes in Zhang Yi's hands, and whether the loopholes will be announced every three days, in that case, no matter which company he takes over, bad luck can be expected.

There was an eerie silence at the auction site, except for his assistant, holding a large sign with a dollar sign, showing it to the people around him.

This scene, through the real-time report of reporters and through the news media, has caused huge repercussions all over the world, especially in the software industry, and everyone has a feeling of sadness.

The fate of the oracle bone can be said to be self-inflicted, but if one day, Zhang Yi takes a fancy to your company, holds up a dollar, and shouts that he wants to buy your company, do you agree or disagree? If you don't agree, he will use powerful technical means to play you to death. It's like a cat eating a mouse, do you send it to the door yourself, or let me play around with it and deliver it to the door? Does the result make any difference?

The answer is no.

This is the monopoly formed by technological strength.

If the monopoly of capital can be circumvented by law, then how should you face and resist the monopoly of technology?