Rebirth of America, this is my era

Chapter 246: Jealousy?

In Ethan's previous life, Oracle was a well-known company. As one of the technology giants in America, it was the second largest software company in the world after Microsoft. This also enabled its founder Larry Ellison to successfully become one of the world's richest men and a frequent visitor on the Forbes list.

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

This is not because Larry Ellison is low-key. As a famous playboy in Silicon Valley, he has dated many more female stars than other wealthy people living in Hollywood.

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 the entertainment industry and has made many well-known movies.

The reason why he is not well-known 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 not accessible to ordinary people. Since the products they sell are not civilian-grade but commercial-grade, the general public will naturally feel unfamiliar with them.

The same thing happened to Ethan.

Since he didn't work in this field in his previous life, he couldn't explain clearly what the database made by Oracle was.

But because of work needs, when analyzing how much revenue the cloud services of companies such as Amazon, Microsoft and Google would bring to them and whether these services would drive up the stock prices of the corresponding companies, after looking through the public market reports of these companies, Ethan found that the name Oracle appeared frequently.

Ethan could no longer recite the full content, but he remembered that when those companies were promoting their products, they all said that in the future, people would need shared databases in the cloud rather than privately deployed databases like Oracle's, and that their cloud would take away a large part of Oracle's market.

At the same time, these companies also admit that when the market has become accustomed to choosing Oracle, it is actually a very difficult marketing to get enterprises to put local databases on the cloud, so they all look forward to cooperating with Oracle and letting Oracle actively move databases to their cloud.

After these reports appeared, Ethan vaguely remembered that Larry Ellison came out to denounce those technology giants, saying that Oracle was also working hard in the field of cloud computing, but before Ethan traveled through time, Oracle, which could not keep up with its competitors, had given up. If Ethan remembered correctly, Oracle finally chose Microsoft and moved the database to Microsoft's Azure.

Although these reports could 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 opinion, Oracle's database is a large hard drive that can be used by a private group 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 groups better manage and use these data.

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

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

After sitting in the future Oracle for an hour, Ethan and Evelyn got up and said goodbye.

Since Ethan had a huge physiological reaction after hearing the name of the other party's product, all the communication with the technicians was done by Evelyn.

This also fits the purpose of Ethan bringing his sister here. Without knowing the technology, how can he evaluate whether a company can complete the research and development before Vinton? Then he can only rely on Evelin.

Following Ethan's questioning, the girl, who had been in a trance since getting on the bus, finally came back to her senses.

Her eyes stared out the window with emptiness, and she expressed her own feelings, "Uh - I personally think that there should be no other driving force behind this company."

"Why?"

Although Ethan had already made the judgment based on his past life memory after hearing the name Oracle, he still wanted to hear his sister's opinion, "Do you think their technology has reached the standard for creating a database?"

He tilted his head to glance at his sister.

Evelin nodded, then shook her head, "I'm not sure about this, but judging from the current situation, they have the ability to do so."

The girl summarized what she had learned. "In the conversation just now, the technician said that their founder Larry Ellison once worked for IBM, where he learned software development. This experience did allow him to read IBM's papers."

"Later, he moved to Amdahl and Ampex, both of which are very famous companies in the technology industry. Amdahl is a direct competitor of IBM, and their supercomputers are very advanced, while Ampex is even more powerful. They have a lot of epoch-making patents in the field of graphics and images. In order to manage those things, they have actually done internal data consolidation a long time ago. With this experience, it is possible for Larry Ellison to create the database that the CIA wants."

Evelyn glanced at Ethan, and after seeing that he was listening carefully while driving, the girl continued, "What concerns me more are 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 enables them to understand and apply the IBM paper description very well."

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

"After all, IBM, Amdahl, Ampex, and the Army Information Office are not easy places to work for."

“The second generation of rich people won’t go there to gild themselves, and they won’t let some idiots get 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 Evelyn's gaze, he sighed.

"I admit."

"The previous exploration was a bit sloppy."

With the appearance of the name Larry Ellison, Ethan realized how outrageous his exploration two years ago was, because if he had known the company thoroughly at that time, he would have known that behind those strange names was Oracle.

But he didn't do that. Or maybe he was so exhausted by Nintendo's home console that he started to do simple things half-heartedly.

Of course, Ethan has the power to be perfunctory.

But life can also give him a big blow because of his perfunctory attitude.

"MFxxk!"

"beep--"

Ethan hammered hard on the steering wheel.

The shrill sound of the horn caused the security car in front to speed up immediately, and the security car behind it to keep some distance.

The accompanying bodyguards didn't know what was going on, and Ethan calmed down after hammering the steering wheel and called out the girl's name, "Evelyn."

"Ok?"

"Don't send the fax when you get back."

"Why?"

“I’ll have someone check whether they have received funding from other forces.” Ethan said, “Since our initial investigation was wrong, we can’t fall in the same place twice.”

"Okay."

Evelyn had no objection.

At the same time, she had her own ideas, "Don't check it, just go find Fred directly."

"Since their company is right next to Stanford, as long as they have had contact with large companies and communicated with well-known people, it would be impossible to hide it from Fred."

"Let's go back to school."

The old principal is a BUG.

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

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

"My children have something to ask you. I'll put them on the phone now."

The old principal handed over the microphone and said, "The current director, who took office in 1977."

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

If it were any other time, Ethan would definitely have praised her a little, but now, he didn't feel like saying much.

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

Soon, the fax machine in the old principal's home started to ring, and with a burst of sounds, all the ancestors of Oracle's founding team were sent over.

According to the CIA's archives, there was nothing wrong with Oracle's founding team and the invention of the Oracle database. They did not receive any help from any large company on the market, or...

In fact, companies on the market think that databases cannot be made.

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

As early as the early 1970s, 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 millions of dollars but was 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 very angry, and at the same time that the CIA cut the project, Larry Ellison stood up and said that he could make the CIA's project a success. The reason why Ampex failed was purely because the leader of the company was a big idiot and proposed the wrong direction from the beginning. Since the CIA really needed this thing, they agreed to Larry Ellison's initiative, and because they had burned too much money before, they were not going to give Larry Ellison too much money this time, and wanted to pay after seeing the results.

The advance 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.

It’s not that R&D doesn’t cost money, but that the CIA didn’t give money.

Pure freeloading.

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

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

Around five o'clock in the afternoon, the two received a reply -

[Okay, I understand. Thank you, Evelyn.]

[My investigation is not finished yet. I will fax you the results when I have them.]

Although Vinton Cerf's reply was calm and composed, his concise words still made Ethan feel uncomfortable. If he hadn't been lazy for a while, perhaps there wouldn't be so many troubles now.

"Alas——" he sighed.

Evelin knocked on the table and said, “Let’s go.”

"What?"

"I'm off work~ I'm going home~"

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

Seeing that Ethan was still sitting there without moving, Evelin pulled him up by his arm.

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

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

"There's nothing to blame yourself for."

These words made Ethan turn his head.

Looking at the figure who closed and locked the door, Ethan asked, "Do you really think so?"

“Of course.” Evelin turned her head with a smile after locking the door. “It’s just a waste of time to blame yourself.”

"I think it's more useful to solve the problem than to blame myself."

"only……"

"How can we help him if Vinton can't solve it?"

“That’s a difficult question.”

What Evelyn said was true. Compared to the video games, computers, and software tools known to the public, Ethan knew almost nothing about the field of databases.

He just knew that Oracle succeeded.

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

He knew nothing about these things.

In this situation, even if he wanted to remedy the situation, he couldn't find the right time to do so.

and so--

He could only apologize to Teacher Vinton 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 might still be able to fix Oracle, but if they had been prepared, they would not have passively heard the bad news like they are now.

He drove with an apologetic heart, and when he got home, he put away his unhappiness outside, smiled and hugged his uncle and aunt. Although he rarely went home for dinner after the company got on track and became busier and busier, every time they got together, it was the beginning of happiness.

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

Linda talked about the progress of the manor's construction. After more than a year of construction, the aquarium Evelyn wanted had been built. Two-thirds of the area was buried underground, and the top of one-third was exposed above the ground. After a water test and confirmation, the first phase of the project could be accepted.

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

Evelyn was overjoyed at the news. She put down her knife and fork and wanted to go to the site to take a look, but Linda and Thomas did not allow her, 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, and Evelin, who was not satisfied, could only sit down angrily. After finishing dinner, watching TV with the old man, and watching the tired two people go back to the house to rest, Evelin immediately used her elbow to poke Ethan, "Let's go and take a look at the construction site."

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

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

"Oh, it's okay! Nothing will happen if you're careful!"

Tiptoe out of the house, tiptoe home. After Evelyn, who was satisfied, slipped back to the bedroom, Linda and Thomas, who were leaning against the head of the bed, curled their lips and got into bed.

Perhaps because the next day was Saturday and everyone was on holiday, there was no movement from Vinton. Ethan estimated that even if Vinton investigated faster, it would take some time to figure out the source of the malice, and only after he figured out why others were targeting him could they prescribe the right medicine. So Ethan was not anxious and decided to spend the weekend at home peacefully.

But he had only been at home for one day when a sharp roar resounded through the sky on February 4, 1979. Gary Kurtz, president of Destiny Pictures, drove up and rushed in. When he saw his boss wearing an apron and cooking steaks, he immediately shouted -

"Boss! I finally found you!"

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

"What?" Ethan was surprised.

He put down the barbecue tongs, turned off the stove fire, wiped his hands with his apron, and asked, "Steven and George had a fight? When did it happen?"

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

"They were fighting with someone, why did you come to me?"

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

"Could it be——"

"Did you get into a fight with someone here?"

Ethan's doubts didn't give Gary Kurtz time to catch his breath. He leaned on the door frame and said, "The fight happened in Los Angeles! I came here to find you because I couldn't get through to you on the phone!"

"As for why I came to find you?"

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

'what? '

Ethan was stunned.

A question mark appeared on the little head, and the big eyes were filled with fear.

Steven Spielberg and George Lucas got into a fight because of him?

Oh Sxxt!

Why does this sound like jealousy?
Ethan didn't understand, but he was shocked.

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