After reaching an agreement with Larry Page, Lin Feng did not stay long.

After he negotiated with Larry Page, the specific joint acquisition will be connected with the following special personnel and relevant personnel of the Google team.

You must know that among the more than 6,000 patents of Nortel Network, which ones are more needed by Google and which ones are more needed by Coolwind, they need to be analyzed and studied one by one according to the data, and according to these, the costs borne by both parties are determined.

It may be an exaggeration, but it is also a big project, which requires a team of intellectual property lawyers, financial experts and experts in the communications industry to sort out the content, characteristics, application direction, and value of each patent in detail.

When it is time to negotiate with Nortel, Lin Feng will attend again.

His second stop was Oracle.

Oracle is headquartered in Redood City, Calif., which is also part of the San Francisco Bay Area, not far from Mountain View, where Google is located.

Speaking of which, Lin Feng and Larry Ellison have known each other for many years, and they have never visited Oracle.

Unexpectedly, after Oracle acquired SUN for $7.4 billion last year, there was a problem between JAVA and Lin Feng's Android because of the copyright issue.

When Lin Feng was in China, he received a call from Larry Ellison, who wanted to talk to him about it.

It's a little embarrassing......

IN LIN'S PREVIOUS LIFE, ORACLE HELD ON TO SUE GOOGLE FOR SEVEN YEARS, ENGAGED IN A TUMULTUOUS SOFTWARE COPYRIGHT WAR, AND IN THE END GOOGLE WON THE VICTORY, AND THE JURY FINALLY RULED THAT "FAIR USE" OF THE JAVA API DESIGN.

If Lin Feng and Ellison are not familiar with each other, it is a big deal to learn from Google in their previous life, and they will go to court......

And now, Lin Feng has another consideration.

The great leader once taught, "Make many friends and few enemies."

Whether it's Oracle or Larry Ellison, it's all very influential in the United States.

Oracle is the world's largest database software company and the world's second largest software company after Microsoft, and after the acquisition of SUN, it entered the hardware market (SUN ranks fourth in the server field), with total revenue of $26 billion, profits of more than $6 billion, and a market capitalization of $158 billion, ranking fourth among IT companies, second only to Apple, Microsoft and IBM, and higher than Google and Fengxing.

With assets of $33 billion, Ellison ranks fifth on the Forbes list of the world's richest people, behind only Bill Gates, Lin Feng, Warren Buffett and the Carlos Slim Elu family in Mexico.

has become an enemy with Apple and Steve Jobs, and has to face an old fox like Microsoft's Bill Gates, Lin Feng doesn't want to make the world enemy in the United States again, as if he has no friends except Google......

The so-called infringement of JAVA copyright by Android is nothing more than the API design of those dozens of interfaces.

For the current Lin Feng and Larry Ellison, it is a big deal to meet and talk about it, and it is good to reach a licensing agreement in a suitable way, and there is no need to go to court.

In his previous life, it was estimated that Ellison couldn't bear that breath, and he had to distinguish right from wrong with Google.

He has such a temper, a strong personality, and he is not inferior.

But as long as he tempers his temper and gives him face, in fact, Ellison is still very atmospheric and easy to talk to.

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“hi，Rich！ Welcome! Ellison stood in front of the building, walked up with a smile, and gave Lin Feng, who had just gotten out of the car, a hug.

Ellison was obviously very happy that Lin Feng was able to come to visit in person.

After all, Lin Feng is different now, not when the two first met as neighbors, a small company owner with a net worth of just one billion dollars.

Now Lin Feng's company size and personal net worth are above Ellison.

As an Ellison who has been watching Lin Feng start, his feelings in his heart are also constantly changing.

When Lin Feng successfully acquired Amazon before, he also specially congratulated him.

"Larry, long time no see, how are you?" Lin Feng patted him on the back and asked with a smile.

complained in my heart, there are too many similar names in Americans, and today in one day, I met two Larry.

There are also things like Steve and Steven, which are even more common on Wall Street and Silicon Valley, and they can be mixed up if you are not careful......

Oracle's headquarters campus is also a beautiful location, like most Silicon Valley IT companies.

In front of the building is a lake, and several cylindrical glass curtain wall towers are scattered in the park.

As soon as you enter, you will be greeted by a poster of the America's Cup, which is also a favorite of Larry Ellison, and the Oracle has also been a regular contender for the America's Cup championship over the years.

Speaking of sailboats, Lin Feng has not had time to sail on the Vivian for a long time recently, and occasionally takes his family to sea on vacation, and also opens a newly purchased Ferretti Yachts 881, this luxury yacht named "Vinson" after Lin Dandan is more suitable for family travel.

Ellison noticed his gaze, shook his head and smiled: "Rich, you should practice sailing more, I heard that you didn't invest in the Chinese team?" At your level, you should come to the Copa America as well. ”

Lin Feng smiled.

He did invest in the "China Team" of the America's Cup regatta of Wang Chaoyong, a big man in the domestic investment circle, but he didn't have much money, and he met Wang Chaoyong when he invested in Huayi (Xin Zhongli was a shareholder of Huayi at that time).

Wang Chaoyong knew that Lin Feng had a good relationship with Ellison and that he also owned a "Vinvian" sailboat, so he strongly invited him to invest in the "China Team", and Lin Feng symbolically invested 10 million.

He's not like Ellison, who spends a lot of his time outside of work playing sailing and flying airplanes......

Oracle has always been known as a "state-owned enterprise" in the United States, and its business has been very stable and on track.

Lin Feng's industries are all in a period of rapid development, and they can't spare time at all.

What's more, Lin Feng prefers to go out to sea to play sailing as a leisure and hobby, rather than to participate in competitions.

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"Larry, to be honest, I also consulted some legal experts on the copyright issue of Java, especially whether the API belongs to the category of copyright protection, in fact, it is relatively difficult to determine, and it also involves the ecological problem of open source software, if the API related to some code of the Java language can apply for patent protection and cannot be used fairly, then the entire software industry will soon be in a mess." Even if Lin Feng wanted to reconcile, he would not be happy to give in at the beginning.

Ellison shook his head: "No, No, Rich, it's not like that, Jave is one of our most important assets, Android is not authorized by Oracle when using the java platform, of course, I understand that when the Andriod system used Java-related technology before, it belonged to SUN, but now, it belongs to Oracle." ”

Lin Feng also shook his head and smiled: "Larry, you have to understand that Java is indeed a great technology, but it belongs to the programming language, which is the same as human language, it is a basic technology, and it has always been open source. If you want to start monetizing Java, it's not just Andriod that will be affected, will all java programming and collaborators start paying licensing fees to Oracle? ”

"Larry, you know, it's going to make people angry!"

Larry Ellison said domineeringly: "That's what they should pay!" ”

Lin Feng shook his head and smiled.

Open source is also a core pillar of the software industry, and a large number of developers and enterprises rely heavily on open source. Even Microsoft and others, which have been opposed to open source policies for a long time, have now changed their minds and started to support open source policies.

IF ORACLE HAD TO USE JAVA TO COLLECT LICENSING FEES, IT WOULD HAVE TOUCHED THE CORE "OPEN SOURCE" POLICY OF THE SOFTWARE INDUSTRY AND CAUSED A MAJOR UPHEAVAL IN THE ENTIRE SOFTWARE INDUSTRY.

However, he did not come to debate with Ellison, but to solve the problem.

"Larry, I understand you, after acquiring Sun, you want to be able to reinvigorate and generate revenue for Java, and as the boss, that's understandable. Of course, as a friend, I hope you still have to think about this carefully, after all, it will affect the interests of too many people in the entire software industry......"

"As for the problem of Java patents in the Andriod system, I hope to find a better solution...... of course, I also hope you understand that I can't pay a license fee, which will be a bad example, and Cool Wind will be blamed and attacked by most companies. So, I'd like to be able to solve it in other ways. ”

Ellison frowned, his ideal idea was that Cool Wind would be willing to pay for the patent license.

But obviously, Lin Feng was reluctant to start this.

Otherwise, the developers and startups who have been hit by the destruction of the "open source" system will not be Oracle, but Coolwind.

"For example?" Ellison asked.

"For example...... is Oracle interested in taking a stake in Coolwind? As you know, Coolwind is growing very well now, and it doesn't really need financing. But as a friend, y, Oracle could use the Java copyright involved in Andriod and a certain amount of stock to take a stake in Coolwind, and I could convince the board of directors to sell no more than 5% of the shares. ”

Ellison was stunned, he had never considered this method.

The calculations are racing in my head.

At present, the external valuation of Coolwind is about 100 billion US dollars, and 5% of the equity is worth 5 billion US dollars, according to the current growth rate and profitability of Coolwind, the annual profit is now more than 10 billion US dollars, and there will be more in the future, just by relying on dividends, Oracle can also get 5-1 billion US dollars from it.

Although this number did not live up to his expectations, and there was still some need to pay for some Oracle stock.

But since Lin Feng personally proposed this method in front of him, Lin Feng's face still has to be given.

Actually, what Ellison didn't know was that he had taken advantage.

In a previous life, Oracle spent seven years and a lot of litigation costs to sue Google for infringement, but in the end it still lost the lawsuit.

But for Lin Feng, he doesn't care about some money now.

Truth be told, billions of dollars are nothing for Coolwind, which has a gold-sucking cow, the Xphone.

But what is saved is litigation that involves a lot of energy and time.

And Oracle, a software giant with huge influence in the U.S. technology field, has also pulled into the Android camp.

From a strategic point of view, Lin Feng did not suffer.

After all, he is not an American, and Coolwind is not an American company, and when it develops to a certain height, it will inevitably be suppressed by many parties, either explicitly or covertly, and he needs to find more supporters for Coolwind.

Google, Qualcomm, Oracle, you name it.

This is also a kind of helplessness.

After all, the United States has always been the strongest level in the world and the hegemon in the field of science and technology.

Maybe only when the motherland is strong enough to dominate the world in the future, Lin Feng will not have to worry about this!

He is still young, and according to the speed of the development of the wind and the cool wind, I believe that he will have the opportunity to see this day in the future!

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