Reborn America, this is my time

Chapter 246 Competing and jealous?

In Ethan's previous life, Oracle was a famous company. As one of America's technology giants, it was the second largest software company in the world after Microsoft. This also made founder Larry Ellison's success has been promoted to the world's top rich man and has become a frequent guest on the Forbes list.

But for ordinary people, Oracle's presence is actually lower than that of other giants.

This is not Larry Ellison's low profile. As a famous playboy in Silicon Valley, living in Hollywood, he has definitely dated many more female stars than other rich men;

It's not that he doesn't like to show off, because he himself likes entertainment and once played himself in "Iron Man". His son has also devoted himself to entertainment and made many well-known movies.

The reason why he is not famous is actually related to Oracle's business. As the absolute overlord in the global database field, they serve companies like Sony, Toshiba, Samsung, and Intel, which are generally out of reach of ordinary people.Since the products sold are not civilian grade but commercial grade, the general public will naturally feel unfamiliar with them.

The same goes for Ethan.

Even if he didn't do this in his previous life, he couldn't explain what the database made by Oracle was.

However, due to work requirements, when analyzing how much revenue the cloud services of companies such as Amazon, Microsoft and Google will bring to them, and whether these services will cause the stock prices of the corresponding companies to rise, after looking through the public market reports of these companies, Yi Sen then discovered that the name Oracle appeared frequently.

Ethan could no longer recite the complete content, but he remembered that when those companies promoted their products, they all said that in the future, what people need is a database shared on the cloud, not a privately deployed database like Oracle. The cloud will take a lot of market away from Oracle.

At the same time, these companies also admit that when the market has become accustomed to choosing Oracle, let companies put their local databases on the cloud?That is actually a very difficult marketing task, so they all look forward to cooperating with Oracle and letting Oracle take the initiative to move the database to their cloud.

After these reports appeared, Ethan vaguely remembered that Larry Ellison came out and denounced the technology giants, saying that Oracle was also working hard in the field of cloud computing, but before Ethan traveled through time, Oracle could not catch up with its opponents. Already given up, if Ethan remembers correctly, Oracle finally chose Microsoft and moved the database to Microsoft's Azure.

Although these reports did not give Ethan a comprehensive and detailed understanding of Oracle's business, they at least gave him a general understanding of Oracle's database.

In his view, Oracle's database is a large hard drive that can be used by a private collective to store and call data. At the same time, this hard drive also has advanced retrieval functions and complex data processing capabilities, which can help private collectives better management and use of this data.

And these things coincide perfectly with the current needs of the CIA and DoD...

"Do you think this company can research the database that the CIA wants before Vinton does?"

After sitting in the future Oracle company for an hour, Ethan and Evelin stood up to leave.

Since Ethan had a huge physiological reaction after hearing the name of the other party's product, Evelin conducted all the communication with the technicians.

And this is also in line with Ethan's purpose of bringing his sister here. If he doesn't understand technology, how can he evaluate whether a company can complete research and development before Vinton?Then we can only rely on Evelin.

Following Ethan's questioning, the girl who had been in a fugue state since getting in the car came back to her senses.

Staring blankly out of the window, she also expressed her own feelings, "Well - I personally feel that there should be no other driving force behind this company."

"Why?"

Although after Ethan heard the name Oracle, he had already made a judgment based on the memory of his previous life that it was a coincidence that his mother opened the door for a coincidence, but now, he still wants to hear what his sister thinks, "You Do you think their technology meets the standards for creating a database?”

He turned his head and glanced at his sister.

Evelin nodded, then shook her head, "I can't be sure about this matter, but judging from the current situation, they have this ability."

The girl summarized what she had learned, "In the exchange just now, the technician said that their founder Larry Ellison once worked for IBM, where he learned software development. This experience is indeed Let him see IBM's papers."

"Later, he switched jobs to Amdahl and Ampex, both of which are very famous companies in the technology industry. Amdahl is a direct competitor of IBM. Their supercomputers are very advanced, and Ampex is even more powerful. They have There are a bunch of cross-era patents in the field of graphics and images. In order to manage those things, they have actually done internal data collection. Under this experience, the man named Larry Ellison may indeed make the CIA request. database."

Evelin glanced at Ethan, and after seeing that he was listening carefully while driving, the girl continued: "And what concerns me more is Larry Ellison's two partners."

"One of them has worked in our country's Army Information Personnel System, and the other is a professional data architect, which allows them to well understand the description of IBM's paper and apply it."

"Although I have not had contact with them, these resumes should prove everything."

"After all, IBM, Amdahl, Ampex, and the Army Information Service are not easy places to get into."

"The rich second generation will not go there to get gold plating, and they will not let some bastards into R&D positions."

"so……"

At this point, Evelin stopped and looked at Ethan calmly.

Ethan glanced at the central rearview mirror, and after catching Evelin's eyes, he sighed.

"I admit."

"The previous investigation was a bit sloppy."

As the name Larry Ellison appeared, Ethan knew how outrageous his search two years ago was, because as long as he had a thorough understanding of the company, he would definitely know those things. Behind the weird name is Oracle.

But he didn't do that.In other words, Nintendo's home console product made him mentally and physically exhausted, causing him to start perfunctory when dealing with simple things.

Of course, Ethan has the power to be perfunctory.

But life can also give him a big bag because of his perfunctory behavior.

"MFxxk!"

"beep--"

Ethan hammered the steering wheel hard.

The piercing whistle caused the bodyguard car in front to speed up immediately, causing the bodyguard car behind to pull away.

The accompanying bodyguards didn't know what happened, but Ethan calmed down after hammering the steering wheel and called the girl's name, "Evelin."

"Ok?"

"Don't send faxes when you get back."

"Why?"

"I'll have someone check to see if they have received funding from other forces." Ethan said, "Since our original investigation was wrong, we can't stumble at the same place twice."

"Okay."

Evelin had no objection.

At the same time, she also had her own thoughts, "Stop checking and go directly to Fred."

"Since their company is right next to Stanford, as long as they have contact with large companies and communicate with famous people, it will be impossible to hide it from Fred."

"Come on, go back to school."

The old principal is a bug.

As a guy who personally experienced World War II and participated in all wartime military research and development work with his teacher, when he learned that the professor at his school seemed to have been persecuted, he directly called the CIA.

"Yes, it's me, Fred Terman."

"My kids have something to ask you, and I'm going to put them on the phone now."

The old principal handed over the microphone, "The current director took office in [-]."

"Just ask, the CIA has no secrets from me."

If it were normal times, Ethan would definitely compliment him a bit, but now, he has no intention of talking too much.

He nodded, took the phone, and told the guy on the other end of the phone what he wanted.

Soon, the fax machine at the old principal's home started ringing, and in a burst of fizz, eighteen generations of the ancestors of Oracle's founding team were sent over.

In the CIA's archives, there is no problem with Oracle's founding team and the invention of the Oracle database. They did not receive help from any large company on the market, or...

Companies on the market actually feel that databases cannot be built.

The reason why the CIA assigned such a difficult task to Larry Ellison was simply because the CIA's previous partner ruined the database project.

As early as the early 70s, the CIA wanted a database that could handle complex data, so they commissioned Ampex to help develop it.

Larry Ellison was working there at the time, so he became one of them.

But Ampex spent several years and burned millions of dollars, but they were unable to produce a decent result. In the end, they could only say that the database the CIA wanted did not exist.

This fact made the CIA half angry. At the same time that the CIA was cutting off the project, Larry Ellison stood up and said that he could complete the CIA project. The reason why Ampex failed was purely because the leader of the company was a fool and put forward the wrong direction from the beginning.Because the CIA really needed this thing, they agreed to Larry Ellison's request. And because they had burned too much money before, they were not prepared to give Larry Ellison too much money this time. A lot of money, I want to see the results before paying.

The upfront payment is just the basic salary to keep Oracle running.

Therefore, the DoD heard that the CIA obtained the database product at a very low price.

This is not because R&D does not cost money, but because the CIA did not pay for it.

Whoring for nothing.

When these facts were presented in writing to Ethan, he finally dared to make the judgment that "Vinton Cerf's current encounter was a coincidence."

Evelin and Ethan thought the same thing, and the girl didn't find any problems in the complicated but smooth information, so she sent a fax to Vinton Cerf.

At around [-] p.m., the two received a reply——

[Okay, I understand, thank you Evelin. 】

[My investigation is not over yet. I will send you a fax when the results are available. 】

Although Vinton Cerf replied calmly, the concise words still made Ethan feel a little uncomfortable. If he hadn't been lazy for a while, he might not have so many troubles now.

"Alas—" he sighed.

Evelin knocked on the table and said, "Let's go."

"What?"

"It's time to get off work and go home~"

Evelin waved her arm and motioned for Ethan to look at the time on his watch, "It's time to get off work and it's time to go home for dinner. I called my dad in the afternoon and told him to go home in the evening."

Seeing that Ethan was still sitting and not moving, Evelin grabbed his arm and pulled him up.

"Now that the matter has been investigated clearly, there is no need to be sentimental."

"Besides, this matter has nothing to do with you, right? You don't understand technology, so using the number of people to judge the strength of this company is a reasonable approach in itself. Moreover, Nintendo at that time did involve a lot of your energy. so……"

"There's nothing to blame."

These words made Ethan turn his head.

Looking at the figure with the door locked, Ethan asked: "Do you really think so?"

"Of course." Evelin, who locked the door, smiled and turned her head, "blaming yourself is just a waste of time."

"Compared with blaming myself, I think solving problems is more useful."

"only……"

"If Vinton can't solve something, how can we help him?"

"It's a problem."

What Evelin said is true. Compared to the video games, computers and software tools that are known to the public, Ethan has almost zero understanding of the field of databases.

All he knew was that Oracle had succeeded.

As for how he succeeded, and who were his opponents on the road to success?

He didn't know any of these things.

In this case, even if he wanted to make amends, he couldn't find the right time to take action.

and so--

He could only apologize to Teacher Wenton in his heart.

Because only he knew that if he had known Larry Ellison's name earlier, things might not have been so bad.They may still be able to dig out the oracle bones, but if they were prepared, they would not passively hear the bad news like they are now.

He drove with apologies, and when he got home, he put away his unhappiness outside, smiled and hugged his aunt and uncle.Although after the company got on the right track and became busier and busier, he rarely went home to eat, but every time we got together, it was the beginning of happiness.

At the dinner table, Thomas raised his wine glass to express his happiness and loudly announced his joy for the previous VCR. He thought what Ethan said in it was great.

Linda talked about the construction progress of the manor. After more than a year of construction, the aquarium tank Evelin wanted has been built. Two-thirds of the area is buried underground, and one-third is buried underground. The top is exposed on the ground. After adding water and testing to confirm that it is correct, the first phase of the project can be accepted.

The second phase of the project is to renovate the underground corridors and ground passages of the aquarium, as well as the water area and breeding area, and then create the underground bedroom Evelin wants on the east side of the aquarium. In this way, sleeping People there can see the underwater world just by opening the curtains...

This news made Evelin overjoyed. She put down her knife and fork and wanted to see the site, but neither Linda nor Thomas allowed it, saying that the construction site was full of building materials and it was not safe to go there at night.

Her parents tried their best to stop her, but Evelin, who was not satisfied, could only sit down in frustration. After dinner, watching TV with the old man, and watching the tired two people go back to the house to rest, Evelin immediately used her hands to He elbowed Ethan and said, "Let's go to the construction site and take a look."

"Now?" Ethan, who originally wanted to go back to his room to sleep, was shocked.

"Of course! I can't wait! Go get a flashlight!"

"Oh, it's okay! Just be careful and nothing will happen!"

Tiptoeing out the door, tiptoeing back home.After the satisfied Evelin slipped back into the bedroom, Linda and Thomas, who were leaning on the bedside, curled their lips and got into bed.

Perhaps it was because the next day was Saturday and there was a holiday everywhere, so there was not much movement in Vinton.And Ethan estimated that no matter how fast Vinton checked, it would still take a certain amount of time to figure out the source of the malice. Only when he figured out why others were targeting him could they prescribe the right medicine, so Ethan was not anxious. Decided to spend the weekend peacefully at home.

But unexpectedly, he had only stayed at home for a day when a rapid roar rang through the sky on February [-], [-].Gary Kurtz, the president of Destiny Pictures, drove up and rushed in. After seeing his boss wearing an apron and cooking steak, he immediately shouted -

"Boss! I finally found you!"

"Something happened! Something big happened! Steven and George got into a fight!"

"What?" Ethan was startled.

He put down the barbecue tongs, turned off the stove fire, and while wiping his hands on his apron, asked: "Steven and George got into a fight? When did it happen?"

After asking three questions in a row, Ethan felt something was wrong again, "Wait a minute!"

"They started a fight with someone, why did you come to me?"

"And, why are you in the Bay Area? Shouldn't you be in Los Angeles?"

"Could it be—"

"You guys started fighting with people here?"

Ethan's doubts gave Gary Kurtz no time to breathe. He was lying on the door frame and said: "The fight happened in Los Angeles! I came here to find you because I couldn't get through your phone!"

"As for why I came to you?"

"That's because George and Steven were fighting over you!"

'what? '

Ethan was dumbfounded.

Question marks popped up on his little head, and his big eyes were full of fear.

Steven Spielberg and George Lucas got into a fight over him?

Oh Sxxt!

This special code sounds so jealous!
Ethan didn't understand, but he was shocked.

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