Bluestar Technology Group Headquarters, Internal Senior Management Meeting.

Zhang Bowen, who attended the meeting, said: "It's messy, it's messy, it's all messy, and the entire northwest of Shanxi is a mess of porridge......"

When everyone heard Lao Zhang suddenly say such a sentence, they all couldn't help but laugh.

And Zhang Bowen continued to speak with a clear eye: "Two years ago, it was rumored on the Internet that Google was plotting to acquire Sun Microsystems, which seemed to be not out of nowhere, and Oracle also came out at this time to insert a lever, and Sun Microsystems wanted to acquire Sweden's MySQL company, which directly led to the participation of five or six IT multinational giants, making the whole situation chaotic, and even impossible to start." ”

After a while, another executive at the meeting said worriedly: "I Bluestar Technology can be said to have completely destroyed all competitors in terms of financial resources, but the key to this acquisition is not how much money there is, but the surname of Bluestar Technology is 'Hua' and not 'Mei'...... Worse. ”

Apparently, the executive who spoke was pessimistic about the prospect of acquiring Sun, and the rest of the audience did not speak, but basically acquiesced to this fact.

Luo Sheng, who was relatively quiet at the meeting, immediately asked in a deep voice: "If you want to win from this melee, you must figure out the first point as soon as possible, who is our enemy and who is our friend?" Or who could be our friend and who might be our enemy. If you don't figure this out first, you're going to lose. ”

Speaking of this, Luo Sheng looked at Zhang Bowen: "Didn't the person in charge of negotiations at IBM say that it will be here today?" What exactly is the time? ”

Zhang Bowen immediately responded: "I have already arranged the meeting time, just at 16 o'clock this afternoon." ”

Luo Sheng nodded, glanced around at everyone, was silent for a moment and said: "We acquired Sun Company in the hope of creating a full-service product line from software to hardware, but the key is the company's Java language, but even if we lose Sun Microsystems, it is not unacceptable for us, but MySQL cannot give up, no matter what, we must take it, as long as MySQL is in our hands, Sun Company will fall into the hands of Larry Ellison or Larry Page, MySQL will always be a thorn in their throat. ”

MySQL AB is the most popular open source database developer in the world today, Luo Sheng values this company even more, once the merger is completed, with the cloud computing service business segment of Bluestar Technology Group, it can quickly build into the best company in servers, workstations, enterprise-level solutions, SPARC processors, storage devices and other hardware in addition to IBM.

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In the afternoon, Bob Swan, a global vice president sent by IBM, came to Bluestar Technology, and he didn't even rest as soon as he got off the plane, and immediately transferred to Sioux City.

In the reception room at this moment, Luo Sheng was interviewing with the person in charge sent by IBM.

"Mr. Swan, we'll put the data center matter on hold, and now we should talk about Sun." Luo Sheng looked at the middle-aged man with a hooked nose sitting across from him and said.

Bob Swan spread his hands without thinking: "With all due respect, Mr. Luo, the 99% probability that your company wants to acquire Sun is to accompany the run, either it belongs to Google, or it belongs to Oracle, or it belongs to IBM, you know, the speed of expansion of Bluestar Technology Group in North America has deeply disturbed the authorities, and there has never been a Chinese company that has expanded so fiercely in the IT industry." ”

Luo Sheng couldn't help but smile when he heard this, naturally put his legs together, crossed Erlang's legs and looked at the American in front of him with a smile and said, "This is a ******* of praise Bo Swan shrugged.

"OK, let's open the skylight and say something." Luo Sheng put down Erlang's legs that had just been cocked again, leaned forward slightly, looked directly at Bob Swan, and said, "...... Oracle has swept the software field and is taking the opportunity to enter the hardware field, this move is bound to face the competition with IBM and HP, the original IBM and HP two tiger competition pattern will also be broken, the IT industry has entered the era of three-legged, I think your company should know better than me what this means, I know that your company also wants to prevent Oracle from invading your core territory and simply take Sun. ”

At this point, Luo Sheng leaned back on the sofa and crossed Erlang's legs again, looking at Bob Swan and added: "Oracle is a company with personality, which is true to the characteristics of its CEO Larry Ellison, and I saw a news website say this about Larry Ellison: He is Patton, who led the Third Army to sweep through Europe during World War II. ”

Bob Swan looked at Luo Sheng suspiciously: "I don't understand what you mean, can you be more direct?" ”

Luo Sheng didn't know if he didn't understand or didn't understand, but he could be sent by IBM to negotiate with him, so he should have asked knowingly, Luo Sheng simply acquiesced to him pretending, and said with a smile: "Come on, Sun is seeking to acquire MySQL AB, the world's most popular open source database developer, once these two companies merge and transfer to Oracle's arms, you and I don't want to see it, right?" ”

Bob Swan was silent.

Luo Sheng said again: "Actually, I want to do it too. ”

In the face of Luo Sheng's blunt and frank words, Bob Swan's eyelids couldn't help but jump slightly, but they quickly recovered as before.

That's right, for IBM, Oracle is a big threat, and Bluestar Technology and Luo Sheng are equally big threats.

There's nothing to hide, everyone is a giant, and no one has a group of think tanks behind the scenes.

Luo Sheng basically has a rough judgment in his own heart, it seems that the opportunity for Bluestar Technology Group to acquire Sun Company is basically very slim, and the North American authorities can't pass it.

Since this is the inevitable outcome, it is impossible to fall out with IBM at this time, and when the large data center cannot enter the North American market, and the loss of cloud computing services in the North American market will be even greater.

On the bright side, although there is a stalemate with IBM and HP and Intel can cooperate, Luo Sheng is still more inclined to cooperate with IBM in his heart, after all, he prefers IBM's solutions in the server area, and he is also the number one player in this field.

It's just that Luo Sheng didn't show this kind of thought and was detected by IBM.

After a while, Luo Sheng said: "I have a more compromise solution here, maybe IBM and Bluestar Technology Group can accept it, I think your company definitely doesn't want others to go deep into the hinterland of IBM's kingdom, and I don't want others to go deep into the hinterland of my Bluestar Technology kingdom." Nice, it seems possible to strike a delicate balance on this issue and reach a consensus. ”

Luo Sheng knows that if Bluestar Technology merges Sun and MySQL under its command, it will also be an opponent with IBM and HP, becoming a three-legged industry pattern, so IBM will definitely make a bad and become an enemy, but on the contrary, as long as a little adjustment, the enemy can also become friends.

MySQL may be worth about one billion US dollars, but it is the world's largest open source database system, with a very far-reaching impact, and has become the de facto standard for open source databases, mainly used in small and medium-sized enterprise database applications and huge Internet background system applications.

Bob Swan looked at Luo Sheng curiously: "Oh? May I hear it. ”

Luo Sheng said without thinking: "I can give up Sun company, I don't care if it ultimately belongs to Oracle or Google, or IBM or IBM, but MySQL should belong to me, IBM should actively promote it, only this is the most beneficial situation for you, because you don't need to worry about threats at all, and it is acceptable to me." ”

"Whether Sun Microsystem falls into the hands of Oracle or Google, it will naturally drive me to reach an alliance between Bluestar Technology and IBM, and we can suppress our opponents to the death from two to one."

As soon as these words came out, Bob Swan fell into a long thought, he was not in a hurry to respond, and Luo Sheng was not in a hurry to give an answer immediately.

In any case, this is indeed a fairly compromise solution, and both sides can accept such an outcome.

In this way, if Sun is acquired by Oracle, it will also have to compete with Bluestar Technology, after all, the database application solution for small and medium-sized enterprises still has to look at MySQL, which will greatly break Larry Ellison's ambition, and take care of his own backyard more to save him from tossing in the hardware field.

It's enough to have IBM and HP in the hardware, just like Intel is to AMD, the little couple lives a peaceful and stable life, breaking into a nasty third party to break the balance, who don't you get?

At the end, Bob Swan stopped thinking, looked at Luo Sheng and said, "I can't give you an answer right away. ”

Luo Sheng nodded happily and smiled: "No problem, things can be discussed slowly, I'm not in a hurry at all, IBM has enough time to think about it." ”

Bob Swan rolled his eyes wildly in his heart, and secretly scolded this bastard for standing and talking without backache, of course you bastard is not in a hurry, but IBM is dying.

The contract of the data center is about to be breached, but it is only because it failed to withstand the temptation of Luo Sheng's olive branch, tens of billions of dollars of contracts plus billions of dollars of sky-high liquidated damages, and anyone who sees his legs will be weak and will not be able to walk.

Unless the contract is signed.

So, IBM signed.

It's just that IBM didn't expect the North American authorities to obstruct it so much, they thought about it, but they didn't expect that the force would be so large, so big that it far exceeded IBM's internal estimates.

And once the contract is breached, not only will the tens of billions of dollars of contracts be gone, but a huge amount of liquidated damages will be paid.

If you don't blow up, you have to explode on the spot.

However, fortunately, the progress of this matter is barely smooth, although there are many twists and turns in the middle, and it has taken more than a year to make new progress, but as long as there is no default, it can safely and steadily earn tens of billions of dollars from Bluestar Technology.

Everything is worth it.

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