Reboot 2003

Chapter 338 121: Antitrust (two-in-one)

Fine.

A Yue saw Chen Qin and the group of engineers opposite - one side was openly using hacking software to hack other people's chat software, and the other side was assuming some random identity. A Yue was listening and felt that they were all Quite boring.

But after all, they were engaging in hacking. The other party seemed to have changed places, and finally started to discuss some core issues.

"How dare you make any assumptions? You allow your subordinates to slander IBM, and you also want to disrupt our acquisition to achieve your goals. Your competition methods are too bad..."

The engineers who were several times older than him were very angry. The Chinese engineer beside him had not yet translated, so Chen Qin said in a mixture of Chinese and English: "I don't have a good impression of your acquisition of IBM, but I didn't say anything either." It’s a lie, not to mention I’m doing it for your own good..."

He also said alarmingly: "I know you want to switch jobs to IBM, but this deal is inherently against monopoly laws. If you insist on doing this, you will only hurt yourselves in the end!"

The other side obviously didn't believe it. For example, Ian Murdoch said: "Why is it a monopoly deal? We are almost bankrupt. IBM, as a competitor, acquires us. It is a normal business behavior..."

He was interrupted by Chen Qin just halfway through his words.

"Because you are doing a horizontal acquisition." Chen Qin said, "If you don't understand the laws, I can educate you on this - if the top four merchants in an industry account for more than 75%, the merger of two of them is a typical example. In terms of monopoly mergers, you and IBM are the top two in the field of commercial servers. If your merger does not violate monopoly laws, then there will be no monopoly mergers in the world."

"We also have feelings for the company!" The other person retorted, "You are talking about server manufacturers, including HP and Dell. Besides, the current economic situation is so bad, who says we will definitely violate antitrust laws?"

Chen Qindao: "That's not necessarily true. If the economic crisis lasts until the end of next year, politicians may let you go, but haven't you thought about it at all? If you can't get through it in the end, they won't be able to buy you. At most, you will lose a little bit. The intellectual property and manpower are needed, but what should you do yourself?”

"What do you mean?"

"Now that the acquisition negotiations have been made public, the entire Melician company knows that SUN is in trouble. If no one takes over, even if you have the ability to turn losses into profits, you will have to wait until the financial report in early 2010 to see the results. Do you think SUN's stock price can persist? That day?"

The other person was at a loss for words, but Chen Qin hadn't finished speaking yet and continued to add: "Of course the same goes for Oracle. They just want to either buy you or destroy MySQL. If the acquisition fails, they will not lose anything, and your project You will become abandoned by capital. The transaction you are currently engaged in is a way for them to murder your company. Unfortunately, you are still helping people count money after being sold. If it is not to help you, why do you think antitrust laws exist? "

Chen Qin's words immediately silenced the engineers on the other side. They didn't even refute Chen Qin's statement that they were in contact with Oracle.

Only Mr. Gosling is still unconvinced: "You understand the law, yes, but my daughter also studies law. You can fool them, but you can't fool me."

He immediately asked: "You are so alarmist, but don't you have a monopoly?"

"We have almost no overlapping business with SUN." Chen Qindao, "Our database market share is less than 1% of the world's, and we currently do not have any server or semiconductor business."

"But that's just without horizontal mergers. Vertical mergers also involve monopoly." Gosling pointed out, "You have that mobile phone system. When you bought SUN, didn't you just want a monopoly?"

Chen Qin smiled: "That's true. According to Harvard jurists, reciprocal relationships also involve monopoly, but are you a company that opposes reciprocal relationships?"

Gosling was stunned by the question and could only say: "But our company does not have a good profit plan now. Merging with IBM can always continue our old business..."

"It seems that you still have some unrealistic illusions about monopolies." Chen Qin said, "So do you hope that IBM will give up its market to you, or continue to maintain a situation of common competition between the two parties? Now Linux servers are The general trend is, can your operating system compare to Red Hat, or can your chips compare to Intel?”

Gosling was a little unconvinced: "What about you?"

"Of course we are different." Chen Qin said, "Looking at us, we have RISC-V, we have Kaitian OS, and merging your company is a vertical merger."

Gosling seemed to have found a flaw: "Then isn't this right? You keep talking about anti-monopoly. Isn't tying sales also a monopoly behavior? There are also cases of failure in vertical mergers."

"Of course this is different. First of all, antitrust is against price fixing. We are a free software provider, and there is no possibility of monopoly. What's more, our system is open source. We do not prevent others from entering the competition. We It can only provide you with technical advantages and help you regain vitality on the new track. This cannot be regarded as a monopoly at all."

He also said: "What's more, even in your existing fields, we can provide resources reasonably and legally to bring you an advantage."

Gosling was actually a little shaken, but still asked: "What advantages do you have? We don't believe those little fabricated stories..."

"We have the Chinese government behind us," Chen Qin said. "To be honest, our government is preparing to launch an investment project worth hundreds of billions. This is a more stable big customer than the rich people on Wall Street. You should understand what I mean, right?"

A Yue touched him and reminded in a low voice: "You are not Chen Aotian!"

"Oh, yes, I just heard about this," Chen Qin quickly corrected, and continued, "Besides, we are an Internet service provider, we are providing cloud services, we can do vertical integration, and we have full The world's most cutting-edge embedded system technology, if we have any success, SUN will be on a first-come-first-served basis... Is this enough?"

I thought I was still talking about illusory technology, but this was a bit too pragmatic. The other party could not find any reason to refute, but Chen Qin had not finished speaking: "Your CEO is just a mediocre person, and my company is now in the process of On the cusp of the Internet, maybe it will become the next Microsoft. Your founder once said that you are the point before .com. Now it seems that you can't do it alone. You must add us to have hope. What do you think? Woolen cloth?"

He was merciless in his criticism, but what he said was true; Gosling said helplessly: "Well, what you said makes sense. Of course, I don't think there is anything to be proud of in becoming the next Microsoft. We hate that kind of closure." Barbaric software company..."

"I respect your open source spirit because I know how to make money from this thing. This is something I didn't mention just now, but I won't kidnap others with unrealistic ideals." Chen Qin said, "But if you If you work for IBM or Oracle, most of them will not care about any open source business, but my company started with open source software. I...I mean that our Galaxy Software can allow your company to continue to use the abbreviation JAVA instead of just calling it JAVA. MySQL or SUNW."

The old men were fine. Only Gosling was curious: "But how are you going to make our open source project profitable? We have already made quite a few attempts, and we have worked hard for so many years. What's more?"

"You want to know?"

"Want to know."

"First convince your CEO and senior executives that their stupid decisions are pushing your company into the abyss."

"But this is beyond our control after all..." Ian Murdoch said loudly, "Our company is too old, the relationships on the board of directors are complicated, and investors also have too many and too heavy expectations for it. No matter who it is, if someone can acquire it, it may be an opportunity to make it return to the way it was in the past. We thought so before, but we never considered it would be you."

"what about now?"

"What you said is indeed good, but it's a pity that we can't decide it alone."

"Then just wait, you promise... No, you sign a joint actor agreement, is that okay?"

"This is what it should be, if you don't mind it... By the way, we are still at work, at least until we get off work tonight..."

"It doesn't matter. I will send someone to talk to you later. I mean I will find someone to respond to your needs." Chen Qin said.

The engineer didn't pay attention to his explanation: "Okay, we will sign it, can you tell us?"

"Okay, if you want to know, just make that cloud computing management software called 'Mirage'. It is made by Mr. Tan from our company. It is also an open source project. Although it has just started now, the commercialization of open source The secret is there.”

"Oh...Okay, then we will go and take a look. I said before that their cloud computing is very interesting."

The atmosphere was already harmonious, and the engineers seemed satisfied. After receiving the answer, they asked: "What else?"

"Other than that, it's fine... Oh no," Chen Qin had nothing to say at first, but suddenly added, "There is one more thing."

"besides?"

Bang, bang, bang, Chen Qin ran a small software, and the sound in the earphones suddenly stopped. A Yue listened quietly beside her. After a while, she looked up and saw that Chen Qin had turned off the star core.

He also muttered: "You dare to hack my computer..."

A Yue didn't react: "What's wrong?"

"It's just a small script that uses the latest FLV audio data to send attack software. It doesn't do much. It just asks them to restart their computer and replace the desktop with a Red Hat LOGO."

Chen Qin seemed to be relieved as he spoke, and Ah Yue finally understood: "You hacked their computers in turn!"

"Yes, what's wrong?"

"You're still... okay, okay." A Yue somewhat understood how these people got along, but Chen Qin explained seriously: "This is a trap honeypot implanted into the Star Core client by the security officer. Now I Just take it out and use it. Originally, it wasn't me who hacked their computer, it was them who hacked my star core, and I just used the reserved loopholes to counter it."

No one asked you what you were using... Ah Yue didn't want to care about this. She thought about it and asked: "What's next? These people have done it, and there is the antitrust you mentioned, but the acquisition of SUN Is it done?"

"I have to find another way, but as long as they get it done, even if SUN collapses in the future, I can just recruit people through them. Acquiring technology companies, what do you think you are acquiring?"

"Okay," A Yue looked at him and nodded, "Now I think this is good. They seem to really like this company."

"High salary, less work, good atmosphere, working here is more prestigious, not to mention they have very good skills. In the past, they just had less people at the helm, but now their opportunity has come."

Speaking of this, Chen Qin himself breathed a sigh of relief, but Ah Yue whispered: "You still said that you are not Chen Aotian." By now, Chen Qin seemed to be a little numb, and said seriously: "That's not it. , I just said this is an organization, and I am just one of them..."

She seemed to have realized it just now, and was not afraid of her asking further questions. However, Ah Yue asked: "Are you the one posting pornographic pictures every day on Weibo?"

Chen Qin was shocked: "That's definitely not me."

"Really?"

"Do you think I look like that kind of person?"

……

In short, a key negotiation ended like this. That night, Chen Qin sent an email to his subordinates on the other side of the ocean, asking them to communicate secretly with the technical staff for public relations. After that, the two parties had close contacts, but nothing happened to Chen Qin. Then Fu Guohua came to find Ah Yue. He was the player who had discussed the map with Guo Yang. Yesterday, those people were also found through him and on his own.

Fu Guohua and A Yue started to inquire: "Really Chen Ao? And you and Yang Guo, you guys are really crouching tiger, hidden dragon."

A Yue helped him lie: "No, he is a member of the Chen family."

"Oh...but the teachers all said that he was very good at what he said. He obviously broke my computer..."

Ah Yue was a little apologetic: "I'm sorry, how about I compensate you?"

"No, I'll just reset the system anyway. Come on, I think it's good for our Chinese company to acquire SUN. SUN is really a good company. We don't want it to go bankrupt. Those teachers said so I have great opinions, and I seem to have helped to look at the code of your open source project yesterday.”

Is it really that good?

Two days later, Aunt Lu said she happened to be passing by and met A Yue. During this period, she asked abruptly: "What is your current relationship with that Xiao Chen?"

A Yue felt guilty: "They are just classmates, and we play games together..."

"He knows a lot."

"He seems to have someone... After he got together with the people in the galaxy, he seemed to start caring about these messy things. Before, he just knew how to play games."

"Maybe this is a genius." Aunt Lu said.

After saying that, he sighed: "That's great. You should treat him well in the future. This kind of young man is usually rare. Let's share what you have. It just so happens that your Uncle Liu was here recently." When it comes to semiconductors, their company already has some plans."

Aunt Lu complimented her, and Ah Yue felt very good after hearing it, and even felt a little happy. She turned around and told Chen Qin. After hearing this, Chen Qin put his arm on her shoulders and asked her, "You didn't say anything, right?"

"I didn't say anything. I said you only learned so much after contacting the galaxy..."

"It's not about this, it's about the bidding. Anyway, don't talk to them about the situation at SUN Company. Do you understand?"

"I know, I'm not a fool."

Chen Qin felt relieved, and then asked her after thinking about it: "How is your business at home?"

"That's it."

“I’m going to do some online shopping recently, so I’ll give your family some equity.”

"I don't want you, you're just coaxing a child." After thinking carefully about how he coaxed his father, A-Yue said, "I don't want it anyway."

In short, this negotiation ended like this, and everything went smoothly after that. The negotiations with Groffange have been finalized. There is a lot of complex organizations, with a board of directors in the middle. The process still needs to be developed, but the future business layout needs to be Start making plans.

As for SUN... it is obvious that Galaxy Software is engaging in small tricks. For some reason, the technical staff and middle management at SUN are gradually leaning towards it instead of IBM. The board of directors is because Galaxy provides better conditions for those who are eager to cash out. Said it was a better acquisition target.

Even if the CEO is leaning towards IBM, the anti-monopoly rhythm has caused a stir, and IBM has suffered losses before - IBM suffered from anti-monopoly lawsuits in the last century, and was even split up later. Now it is afraid of this Ruhu, although the economy is not good now and the government is actually turning a blind eye, once the rhythm is brought up, it will be very troublesome for the government - the political correctness that undermines anti-monopoly has little impact. The authority of the government is a big deal.

What's more, Melician's trust law is said to be anti-monopoly, which is a good thing with a distance filter for Chinese people. In fact, it is a somewhat retarded bill. This retarded does not mean that it has considerable discretion. , in fact, discretion is the essence of antitrust. This is because the behavior of the accused enterprise that hinders competition has probably not yet occurred, so it itself requires a large number of flexible and transparent elements of the rule of man.

However, the introduction of the Sherman Act of Melician was already in the 19th century. A large number of early cases are like a mountain of code, forming a set of antitrust standards that cannot keep up with the development of the times. Now Judge Lao Bao of Melician has The previous Shang Fang Baojian made a lot of noise in emerging industries, but was completely powerless against real monopolies. In this acquisition, the behavior of IBM and Oracle was obviously seeking rent-seeking interests. If no one found trouble, things would probably go wrong. It could have been done carelessly, but Chen Qin has now jumped out to find trouble. If the two competitors insist on a head-on confrontation, then they must now consider the consequences of contradicting Shangguan Weiyi.

As a vested interest, the future of this acquisition is undoubtedly optimistic and bright.

Not only is Chen Qin's plan advancing hard, A Yue is also feeling it now.

And in such busyness, 2009 gradually came, and the first final exam of the second grade of junior high school was gradually approaching. This time, Chen Qin seemed to be unable to attend to review.

He began to ask for leave, lost his temper with people in the studio, and took his phone to the activity room arranged by Principal Wen during class. Lao Qiu also began to become suspicious.

"It's okay, it's just a little difficulty."

This is what he said to Ah Yue, and after Ah Yue understood it in detail, she probably found it was indeed a small difficulty——

For example, when it came to the recent acquisition case, the media and regulatory authorities came to question his company. Galaxy executives didn't know how to deal with it. After SUN's board of directors showed some signs of softening, there were more interactions at the company level. , but Galaxy Software has nothing in common with the other party.

Another example is that Ji Xianglin is preparing to open a bank after returning to China, and some recent hot projects have been launched. The related industries are boiling at an unimaginable speed. In the economic crisis where everything is waiting for development, a large number of unimaginable eyes have been cast. When it came to Galaxy Software, a leader finally went to ask a few questions. There were so many people at Galaxy Software, but they couldn't even answer a question. It was also thanks to the help of Academician Li who I met at the annual meeting that we finally Nothing happened...

Seeing these things in her eyes, Ah Yue herself seemed to feel something. During class, she held her chin and looked at her deskmate who had been with him for a year and a half——

Wearing the same school uniform as everyone else, biting a ballpoint pen, and having an uncertain expression in class,

Today, she feels like she finally understands what kind of person he is.

He's obviously just a middle school student.

And he has a bad temper.

But in a company, it seems that there is still a need for such a person to lead so many people forward. With so many powerful people, why can't he be a middle school student?

Ayue remembered the image of her father in elementary school, and it was probably like this... Her father was also like this. Now that I think about it, he may not know that much, and his methods may not be very clever, but in the company back then, he seemed to be an indispensable person. , thinking of her experiences over the past year, Ah Yue felt a little emotional again, and at this moment, Chen Qin seemed to notice her gaze:

"What are you looking at?"

He seemed to be like this recently. Ah Yue lay on the table and said, "It's a pity that I can't help you."

"You have done a good job. Next, please pay attention to keeping confidentiality, and urge your family to go to CFIUS to fill out the form as soon as possible..."

He rambled on about arranging tasks, and then Ah Yue asked: "Chen Qin, you are so busy, and you feel like you know everything, why do you still go to school?"

Chen Qin seemed stunned for a moment and glanced at her, as if he didn't expect why she would ask this question.

Of course, he had already thought about the problem itself.

"Actually, it's not bad." Chen Qin said.

A Yue asked him seriously: "Isn't it very important recently... You can take a short break like last semester. If you don't want to be alone, I can also accompany you."

Chen Qin laughed: "No need."

But he said with certainty: "Actually, it's just a temporary situation and it will get better soon."

How can this get better? Galaxy Software needs him, the employees of SUN need him, foundries also need him, private banks need him, and many people also need him. Think about it, maybe he was quite idle last year. At that time, I thought he Just an ordinary middle school student.

But now... this is definitely not a temporary situation, just like when she crossed the dragon gate and came to a broader level at the beginning of the year, Chen Qin seems to be going through that stage now, and he has crossed The level is much greater than A Yue's own petty troubles, and the problems she will encounter in the future will definitely be more than hers.

However, Chen Qin was very sure: "You don't have to worry about anything else. It will indeed get better soon."

As he said this, some dark light shone in his eyes for some reason, and it flashed in the afternoon classroom, and he seemed to be talking to himself during the conversation, repeating the same words for the third time——

"Yes, it will get better soon. Just like what you asked last time, you will know then."

(End of this chapter)