Chapter 242: Many Acts of Injustice
If there is a most conservative and closed software company in the world, it is definitely Oracle Software.
In contrast, Microsoft was only a little more conservative, but after 2017, Microsoft changed its style and became the world's largest company with the largest number of source code contributions.
And Oracle Bone Company, from the birth of the company, conservative and closed has become the company's motto.
As an insider, Zhang Yi clearly remembers that Oracle will acquire SUN (Sun Microsystems) in 2009, and the stingy Lark Exxon is willing to spend $7.4 billion to acquire SUN because he wants to include the open-source high-level programming language Java and the Solaris operating system, which is the main application scenario of Oracle's database.
Of course, Mysql, an open-source database system owned by SUN, has threatened Orrick's position, and in the case of being unable to defeat its rivals, acquisition has become the best option.
At that time, the acquisition was under review by the European Union, which was worried that the acquisition of Oracle would create a monopoly in the database industry, which would not be conducive to healthy competition in the software industry. The cunning Lark Exxon vowed that Oracle would continue to support the open source of the JA VA language and continue to maintain the free and open source Mysql database. These lies helped him beat IBM's competition and successfully acquired SUN.
In the years that followed, he kept his promise to support Mysql open source and the development of JA VA.
But around 2017, after he completely digested SUN, he brazenly tore off the disguise and began to launch a paid version of the JA VA development kit JRE EE, gradually abandoning the update and support of the free version, and made copyright claims on the JA VA API development plug-in package, and even sued Google to the court, demanding that Google compensate for billions of dollars in losses caused by the infringement, and the case caused a sensation.
A veteran of the software industry said frankly: If Oracle succeeds in winning the lawsuit, everyone in the Internet industry, which is dominated by the JA VA language, will be at risk and will be worried about Oracle's lawsuit at any time. After all, the application of the JA VA language has penetrated into all walks of life, and no one knows how many things in their own software code will infringe on the copyright of Oracle.
So much so that after 2018, larger Internet companies have spent huge sums of money to launch a campaign to de-JA VA, so as not to become the target of blackmail by oracle bones.
For such a person, turning his hands into clouds and covering his hands into rain, and treating promises as farts, Zhang Yi has no good impression of him.
He is a young man, and he must maintain respect for his predecessors, but he is not polite to his products at all, and bluntly speaks of Orrick's various shortcomings.
The reporter who got the first-hand news immediately sent it back to Sam's Country, and for a while, all kinds of newspapers were full of this young man's contempt for Orrick software.
Rak Exxon himself is a small-minded, open-minded man who is furious at the criticism of young people.
A press conference was held immediately.
Looking at the reporters sitting on the stage, one by one, with excitement on their faces, he couldn't help but feel a little complacent: this is more popular with reporters than those star-studded female stars.
As a senior in the software industry, I successfully founded Oracle Bone Company, and the software products I created were also highly sought after by customers. ”
Although he was extremely annoyed by Zhang Yi's criticism, he had to admit that the other party was really a software genius, otherwise, he would not have been hired by the arrogant Steve Jobs as Apple's chief technology officer, which is not something ordinary people can do.
"I've seen a lot of the software products he has created, and I admit that his software is very creative and very good. However, as a young person in the software industry, not only do you not make full use of your software talent to benefit the public, but also sing, write songs, engage in the media industry, and even online games, and launch some inexplicable tablet computer, which is simply not wrong. ”
This criticism pointed out that Zhang Yi was not dedicated enough, and his career was very scattered, and outsiders seemed to be a hammer in the east and a stick in the west, and sometimes even two industries that had nothing to do with it.
For example, express delivery, Internet cafes, and micro-hardware physical stores, at first glance, have nothing to do with the software industry. The online game industry can only be said to have a little bit to do with the software industry, but it is still not taken seriously by the orthodox software industry.
Compared with Zhang Yi's comment on Oracle Technology's Orrick software, Lark Exxon's response is much more spicy, and the words are full of all kinds of disdain for young people.
While Lark Exxon's words became more and more refreshing, the expressions of some reporters gradually changed.
Entertainment reporters are a little upset, you say that Zhang Yi is not wrong in writing songs, do you mean that your software industry is orthodox, and our music industry is evil? You know, among the reporters who came to interview this time, entertainment reporters accounted for a considerable proportion. There are very few professional journalists in the software industry, and it is generally just when entertainment reporters can't find news, they just find some news from the technology industry to fill up. After all, entertainment is the favorite of the general public, and software reporters are quite rare.
Rak Exson, who was spraying coolly, was suddenly interrupted by a voice: "Mr. Lark Exson, may I ask what you mean by being a real business, is it true that in your eyes, only the software industry is the orthodox industry? The music industry is not the right way in your eyes, is it?"
"Oh!" he almost didn't catch his breath when he choked on this question, and glanced around the audience, only to find that many reporters had turned their admiration for him before the press conference had now become indifferent, and even some people glared angrily.
He suddenly felt a thump in his heart, and immediately came to his senses.
"What a mistake! I sprayed it so well just now, I forgot that most of the people who came were Yuji, and my map cannon hit too wide a wide area, and I swept down a large area. ”
There was a vigorous activity in my head, and I was thinking about what words to use to save the scene.
"Mr. Exxon, don't you bother to answer our questions? Are we those who work in the entertainment industry so unbearable in your eyes? I want to ask you, do you usually listen to music, do you watch movies, do you watch television? Yes! You regard the entertainment industry as a crooked way, maybe you really don't have any entertainment activities, then life is not too boring! However, many of your girlfriends seem to be in the entertainment industry, could it be that you just like their glamorous appearance on the surface, but in fact? You look down on them, don't you? Because they're doing evil things, aren't they?"
The sharpness of the question made some reporters even applaud it.
The answer is yes and no. If so, it proves that what you just said is true, but it will make your girlfriends very unhappy. If it's not, what you just accused the other party is nonsense.
The dilemma is a true portrayal of him.
His embarrassing silence was captured by a shrewd camera reporter, and for a while, the magnesium light flashed into a daylight, and he was shocked that something was wrong, and hurriedly yelled: The press conference is over, and then he hurriedly walked off the rostrum, perhaps because he was depressed, causing him to stumble and almost fall. The photojournalists laughed at this gaffe without hesitation.
So much so that the next day, the style of painting changed, and the pages of many newspapers did not report his views on Zhang Yi, on the contrary, his gaffe performance at the press conference became the object of media criticism.
These uncrowned kings really want to join forces, and when they deal with someone, the power is enormous.
At this time, the actresses who had a dewy relationship with him, under the pressure of reporters, jumped out one by one to expose their quirks in all aspects.
Zhang Yi, who was far away in the Celestial Empire, watched all this dumbfounded, this turmoil, he really didn't use the media power he had, fishing in the muddy water, stirring up the wind and waves, but he didn't expect that there was no wind but waves.
He opened his mouth and buried himself in it, and who is to blame.
However, for a potential competitor in the future, it is necessary to take advantage of his illness and kill him, otherwise, the future oracle bone company will bring great trouble.
As a practitioner in the software industry, Zhang Yi's interest in SUN is undoubtedly very large. He is more than happy to strangle his competitors in a state of eruption.
After all, the world's largest database software, no programmer can avoid it, even if you hate it, hate it, but you can't do without it.
In this attack, Zhang Yi was open-minded, and in his own "Sam's Country Today", he published a flaw in the Orrick database every three days, some of which were unique to a certain version, while some of the flaws ran through all versions of the Orrick database.
It is different from some hackers who rely on researching the defects of technological products to provide defects to manufacturers and obtain rewards. After Zhang Yi announced the defects, he also published the verification method in the second issue, and the details of the operation steps allowed hackers to closely track the methods he announced, and use the flaws and vulnerabilities to obtain their own benefits.
For a time, the vendors who used the Orrick database complained bitterly, and every day the databases of some Oracle customers' customers were attacked by hackers in turn, and even one hacker was tracked by the FBI IP address, and after obtaining accurate information, he quietly approached his residence, broke through the door, and caught the hackers who were attacking the manufacturer's Orrick database on the spot.
It's just that the employees of the FBI fell into a collective stupor when they saw that it was only a boy about seven years old sitting in front of the computer.