Chapter 16: Conspiracy with Sun Company

"You kid has been like a monkey lately, how are you running around, you can't stop for a while."

The eastern part of the Pacific Ocean, a snow-white yacht, no! It should be a cruise ship to be exact, with four decks and a length of 138 meters. The first deck was too open to force the designer to change it to a basketball court, and Ellison, Jobs and Chen Bo sat in T-shirts and shorts in the four-story comfortable sofa chairs, enjoying the waiter's massage service.

"Do you think we can't toss here?" Chen Bo took the wine glass from the table and poured a mouthful.

"Hehehe, Larry, you're the least qualified to say that." Jobs, who recovered from his postoperative injury, was in a good mood and rarely laughed out loud.

"Haha, that's right!" Ellison laughed, "We'll be old if we don't toss anymore, but this kid is still young, which makes me so unhappy." ”

"I don't have a private fighter jet, and I don't have the world's largest superyacht." Chen Bo didn't expect to be dominant in front of them with the most eccentric tempers, and said sourly, "The comparison between Abuna yacht and yours can be regarded as a small thing." ”

"Why don't I transfer it to you?" Ellison said suddenly.

"How can you sing this? Are you afraid I'll catch up with you? Chen Bo wondered, it seems that this Rising Sun has only been delivered for a few days, so what kind of stalk is this to get rid of.

"I regret that San Francisco doesn't have a private dock that can park such a big guy, and putting it in an ordinary dock with a bunch of freighters will lose my face." Ellison was annoyed and puffed out.

"That's a real treat." Chen Bo couldn't help but tease, "But it's useless if I want it, the order from Leshun Shipyard is in progress." ”

You don't have a place to stop, it's like there's a dock after I take over, it's not the same ending.

"Then I'll keep it for now." Ellison could only endure it for the time being, and said, "Hey, I said what are you doing with Bill Gates' bastard this time?" ”

"Aren't you a bastard too?" Jobs choked Ellison half to death with a cold word, and he almost didn't take it back.

"I accepted all the invitations, so I simply went over to see what medicine he was selling in his gourd, if I really thought he was doing it for charity, it would be a big mistake." Chen Bocai didn't believe that such a shrewd person as Ellison couldn't see the trickiness in it.

"That's right, the little fox is driving MSN crazy, if he doesn't move, he won't be Bill Gates." Ellison said disdainfully, "There's a chance to slaughter him for me, otherwise I wouldn't have you as a friend." ”

How much of an enmity this is? Although Jobs also looked down on Bill Gates, he didn't have such a strong grudge, at least he was still a general friend. You just want him to die in the rhythm, this circle is full of drama inside and outside the circle.

"Don't talk about that, you send me to Seattle and leave it alone." Chen Bo didn't care about his bad things, "Let's get serious, how about we join forces to play?" ”

"Oh? Which fat sheep do you have your eye on?! Ellison's eyes lit up, and as soon as he opened his mouth, he was full of gangsterism.

"Sun." Chen Bo's simple words surprised both Ellison and Jobs.

Sun Company, Chinese name Sun Computer System, Taiwan Island translated as Shengyang. The world's third-largest server manufacturer, specializing in the Solaris server system and enterprise-grade relational databases, is probably best known for their Java language.

The name Sun originally had nothing to do with the Sun, but it was an acronym for Stanford Campus Network that was born from this university.

It took 20 years from entrepreneurship to prosperity, and the market value reached a maximum of $200 billion, but it only took one year to decline. Today's stock price is only more than 4 yuan, with an annual turnover of less than 10 billion US dollars, which is a small profit, and it is still a staunch anti-Microsoft ally, and it is also a competitive relationship with Oracle, how can Ellison not be familiar with it.

"Tell me about your plans." Ellison was already squinting and began to calculate.

"I just want the database and server production lines to mean nothing to me, but 9% of the global market will be owned by Oracle in the future. If you don't, then I might consider working with IBM, I just brokered the acquisition of the ThinkPad, and they're not thinking about Sun for a day or two anyway. ”

"Your ambitions are not small, first to set up data centers around the world, and then to covet Sun's open source language, I can't see what you have to do." Ellison exhaled, then turned to Steve Jobs to the side and asked, "What do you think, old man?" ”

"What does it have to do with me? My code is Objective-C" Jobs disdained open source languages and was committed to building a product ecosystem with Apple as the core, which is a closed circle, how could it be possible to use the java freak.

"I'm just trying to improve the search experience and put a little pressure on Google along the way." Chen Bo didn't completely reveal the truth, but only said half of his thoughts.

As an Internet company to acquire Sun, which has both software and hardware, this operation is very confusing, and the other board of directors may not approve of the plan they propose, and the resistance will definitely increase a lot invisibly. Although Sun's stock price is only about $4 now, the acquisition premium at this level must be at least 1 times, after all, Sun's aftermath and the market are still there, and it has not fallen to that point.

Even if it may cost about $5 billion to complete the acquisition, he can definitely save it by scraping it together, but the acquisition risk of smashing the pot and selling iron is too great. The second is that many of these businesses are not what he needs, and it is meaningless to use them. Then simply pull out the elephant of Oracle, which can not only shock the other party to accelerate the acquisition process, but also propose a reasonable spin-off plan, which will make it easier to achieve the goal.

Moreover, the profits generated by RIS itself are not high, but it is of great use to Chen Bo, and the value of more than 1 billion is here.

As for the sacrifice of IBM, it is purely a tiger skin to make a big banner, and it is only a business transaction with the blue giant, and the other party's senior management is not familiar with it, so where does the cooperation have the confidence, purely to scare and scare him.

"Well, I'll have to think about it." Ellison pondered for a moment and replied that he didn't believe such a simple reason, but there hadn't been much direct conflict between the Internet and enterprise software vendors, so he didn't suspect any other direction. Don't look at his usual behavior is more perverse and weird, but when it comes to business, he won't make decisions haphazardly, otherwise Oracle would have finished the game a long time ago.

"There's another thing, I've built a science and technology city in Dubai, how can I support it, buddy?" Chen Bo saw that he had loosened up and did not continue to force, so he moved on to another topic.

"Even if you don't have it, you have to go where you should go, and Dubai is still very attractive to capital now. But what conditions do you give us? Ellison was shrewd, and after making eye contact with Jobs, he simply made a direct request.

"Ten years of tax exemption, five years of rent-free, high decoration subsidies, Dubai has started a talent introduction plan, but also to further reduce labor costs." That's all Chen Bo can give, this is only for influential big companies, who makes them more famous, as long as they come, other Silicon Valley companies will inevitably be rudderless, and they will always rush in.

"It's all at your behest, right? Those people in the Middle East are so stupid, they've all been fooled by you. Ellison lamented, "I'll help you when I get back and ask the company to issue an announcement." ”

"Me too." Jobs was noncommittal, the Middle East is full of tycoons, how could he give up that treasure land, even though he is really not very enthusiastic about the company's sales and operations, and is more obsessed with creating epoch-making products.

After the two main things were decided, the two big stones in his heart were also relaxed, and then he enjoyed the massage service behind him, but after a while, he got up again and asked hesitantly, "If, I mean if, in the future, our respective businesses will have a competitive situation, will you treat me like Bill Gates?" ”

"Then it's up to each other, maybe I'll scold harder." Ellison said bluntly.

"As expected, you won't be on your own. But if your product sucks, I won't show you any mercy. Jobs saw it very clearly.

"Haha, I'm really looking forward to the day when the media page is full of our scolding wars, do you say it's exciting?"

Chen Bo laughed out loud, he is a true friend and a real opponent, and he will inevitably meet each other in the future, but they are all unruly characters, if he admits it early, then how can he be qualified to sit and play together?

Ellison and Jobs also laughed heartily, and the three big men smirked at the blue Pacific Ocean, seemingly a little nervous.

"What are you laughing at? Anything fun? Eve, dressed in a floral dress, staggered up and saw this scene and asked.

"Chen Jinyu, come here!" Chen Bo beckoned her to him, pointed at Jobs and asked, "This old man said that he is more handsome than me, are you right or not?" ”

"No, no, he's not handsome! He is mature and is old! The milky answer made Old Joe speechless with a bitter face, and Ellison fainted with laughter.

"Chen, I really regret that I found her such a godfather as you."

"It's useless to regret it, she is already surnamed Chen."

Chen Bocai doesn't care about those, this kid is now closer to him than this serious-looking father, the main reason is that he has meat to eat, and he can only eat grass with Qiao.

"Oh, a good method, not only can you deceive women, but you will not let go of children." Ellison looked down at the deck below and complained, over there his little wife was playing with Angelina and Maddox, and he hadn't served anyone in terms of women, but he felt a little unsafe after meeting him.

Seattle not only has a charity forum, but also a series of activities such as charity dinners, and Angelina happened to be free recently, so she asked her to bring her children to San Francisco to meet. It's also good to create some exposure for her, and it can also strengthen the charity character, with Chen Jinyu purely for fun.

It just so happened that Ellison was free, so he formed a yacht bureau, in which the ostentatious element was larger, and he could also take the sea to Seattle.

Don't look at the yacht is huge, but Ellison only renovated 8 rooms, and it is not difficult to see how bad this guy's popularity is.