The Goddess Shines on America

"So, the direct theme of our meeting today is how to build an information age. [] Looking at the world, the top computer companies are all in our place, so compared to ordinary small companies, this responsibility cannot be helped. What should we do?"

After talking and laughing, the topic returned to the focus: "Yes, friends, with the popularity of computers becoming more and more widespread, and with the further development of the Internet, it can be easily calculated based on the current rate. In less than 20 years, Ninety percent of the wealth of the world will be stored in massive servers instead of the clumsy old libraries."

These words are well recognized by everyone, especially Gates nodded most seriously, Alice saw it in her eyes and smiled in her heart. After all, "The Road to the Future", the "twenty years later" he envisioned in the past nine years, is really only more exaggerated, not without exaggeration.

Of course, as the proponent of Moore's Law, how can Gordon Moore disagree with Alice's statement?

In addition, the term of the information age was suddenly put forward by Alice in this way, but it also made everyone's eyes bright. Think about it carefully. The US information superhighway plan was only proposed by the senator in 1992. Although his behavior must be based on the will of the Silicon Valley tycoon, after all, it is only in 1989, isn't it?

"So for today's meeting, I invited Mr. Ellison from Oracle."

Respectingly raised her hand to the man on the left, Alice then smiled and said, "After all, our industries are all related to each other. Various computer operating systems, computer hardware core CPUs, Internet hardware routers and switches, etc., Although these major industries constitute the information age, they undoubtedly lack one of the most critical elements..."

"Honor, my database." It's time for Larry Ellison to speak. Unlike the others here, after receiving Alice’s e-mail, Baba came from San Francisco to attend this internal meeting. He wanted to prove his role in this "internal meeting", not just by meeting. The host’s endless talk can be achieved.

Therefore, he got up and said: "It is a great honor to be able to participate in this conference. Microsoft, Cisco, Intel, you are all great glory of Silicon Valley, and all of you are inextricably related to our Alice-Miss Wang. I can receive her invitation to participate in this high-end conference that has almost gathered 40% of Silicon Valley's essence... Ha ha, should my company become more prosperous if you want to come to my company?"

Having said that, he did not forget to nod to Gordon Moore.

At the conference table, everyone in the Silicon Valley circle suddenly burst into laughter "you know".

Isn't that the case? If Cisco was founded by Alice alone, then Microsoft really relied on her to achieve its success. As for Intel, even though Alice just proposed an algorithm for optimizing the CPU after taking a stake, when facing AMD’s chase, any product performance improvement that does not increase the cost at all will bring infinite benefits to the company. Advantage.

Thinking about it, I really have to admire it. When it comes to participating in business operations, the boss in front of everyone has no effect at all. But it is this middle school student who rarely makes public appearances in the company and the industry.

It's not that you can't live without her, but if you really don't have her, everyone can basically take a break-such a strange situation.

"Speaking of the information age proposed by Alice, we can conceive such a model." After a pause, Ellison continued: "The PCs and corporate computers of thousands of households are the leaves of a big tree. The degree depends on the products of hardware vendors headed by Intel. Then, the most terminal faces the users and is supported by Microsoft’s operating system, while Cisco’s Internet hardware is responsible for supporting the construction of branches and transmitting the fundamental information sources. To thousands of households."

As he said, he said, "No, so everyone has discovered the information source. The database system produced by my Oracle company can guarantee to provide enough information sources to the society. After all, the so-called information age is fundamentally important. It depends on the amount of information that people can obtain, not on the performance of simple computers and Internet hardware. No matter how prosperous branches and leaves are, without the support of tree roots and trunks, they can only be a castle in the sky."

The people around were nodding, and Gates silently touched his chin, just like his good buddy Allen, just trying to figure it out. Larry Ellison, Gates, who is a Seattle native, is not familiar with him, but seeing this father-level middle-aged man said that he is so in line with Alice, it is obvious that they have already had various "hookups".

When did this happen? God knows, of course, this can't be too early. For such an important meeting, how can it be that there is no prior ventilation at all, the reason for direct email invitation to pure strangers. Ellison's explanation is simple and easy to understand, and highlights his own importance. What everyone has to admit is that the database is indeed of great significance in the construction of the "information age".

"Currently, there are still quite a few database companies in Silicon Valley."

Gordon Moore spoke, and the oldest senior opened his mouth. Even the middle-aged uncle had to sit down immediately and sat down obediently.

"Sun Computer Systems was listed three years ago." He said, "Mr. and Mrs. Posac must have more say in this, right?"

Everyone immediately turned their attention to the other two co-founders of Cisco. The founder of Solar Systems Andy Becktorson was a graduate student at Stanford, which is no secret to many people.

"A company established by a genius." Bossak said. When he said this, of course he also looked at the chief Alice: "When Andy was still in school, he designed a kind of'three million 'S small graphics computer is called a graphics workstation. The'three million' refers to the calculation speed of one million operations per second, one million bytes of memory and one million pixel graphics display. He uses Motorola 68000 processor, and used a very advanced memory manager chip at the time to support virtual memory..."

"Graphics workstation?" It was one of the two directors of A&A who spoke, and John Warnock's eyes brightened: "Are they the ones that Abode and Autodesk are currently using? Their company... He used that thing when he was in college. Is it designed?"

"Yes, yes, that's it. It seems that you are also his customers." Posak laughed loudly: "According to the design of Andy Bechtor, the graphics workstation is just a kind of professional engaged in graphics and static dynamic images. , The general term for high-end dedicated computers that work with video. Your company that makes image editing software will buy their computers. It's normal, very normal!"

There was a long whistle on the scene, and I saw it. This is the proof that in a big industry that is booming, the internal staff can really be regarded as interoperable!

"In short, their strength is very strong." Possack continued: "The company was established in 1982. Early workstations used Motorola CPUs. In 1985, they developed their own SPARC streamlined instruction set processor. It has greatly improved the performance of the workstation. I believe Mr. Moore should know this well."

Gordon Moore nodded again and again, streamlining the instruction set, without the need to improve the production process, and the performance of the final product can be greatly increased. How is this different from the benefits provided by Alice to Intel?

"So, Sun Systems is also a very powerful company, and it also happens to be in the server field, although their professional orientation is stronger." Moore took Bosak's words and said to Larry Ellison. "But undoubtedly, this company is a strong competitor of Oracle, and the other is the comprehensive development of hardware and software, but Oracle is focusing on the software field. Then Mr. Ellison, although Miss Wang invited you to the meeting site, We also need to let you prove your strength to us. Why should we choose you instead of them?"

It's so lively.

Alice sat on the chief obediently and watched the gang of colleagues vying for each other.

Intel CEO questioned Oracle's development potential?

Hey, the world's second largest software supplier in the future since 2013, hey, the rich man worth over 40 billion U.S. dollars, hey, do you question him?

If you have any problems, students can solve them by themselves after class. The teacher still has to go to class.

"Ahem!" So Alice interrupted Ellison's self-certification: "In the hardware field, don't we already have Intel? With you and Cisco, of course we don't need to repeat it. Sexual acquisition or cooperation. It’s just a graphics workstation. Our focus is on the database itself. In this way, Oracle ~www.NovelMTL.com~, which focuses on the software field, happens to be the best choice."

The boss spoke, and everyone immediately dispersed. Moore was just asking questions anyway. For him, of course, it doesn't matter whether he will cooperate with the Sun System or Oracle. Since the little boss decides so, he should just shut up when he should.

"So the basic situation is like this, as I announced at the inauguration ceremony just now." Alice was sitting in the chief with her hands on her chin, overlooking the audience and said: "In order to make our group better operate, An The establishment of Brera Capital Investment Company is naturally imperative. The shares I occupy in each company will be allocated to this company by a proportional portion, and at the same time, I will directly inject about 10% of the shares in Oracle. There must be a central point for so many companies with branches and branches?"

It sounded like crazy words, but speaking in this situation, it didn't make anyone angry at all. In the past five years, the behaviors of participating in shares and acquisitions everywhere have indeed established an emerging consortium, a whirlpool of interests completely revolving around a certain focus. It should be said that the participants here did not think of this situation, how could it be possible?

Sophie stayed silently, smiling. .

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