Reborn in 2010, the AI ​​in my mind is too powerful.

Given Chen Yiran's current status, when it comes to discussing collaborations, it's usually others who come to his company to approach him.

But Ellison had borrowed large yachts and sports cars after all.

Chen Yiran still gave them plenty of face and took the initiative to come to Oracle headquarters.

Oracle's headquarters, located on the Redwood Coast, consists of six blue-green cylindrical glass towers surrounding a huge artificial lake.

Although it's not as impressive as the McLaren headquarters that Chen Yiran saw a while ago, it's still quite beautiful.

Ellison also gave Chen Yiran a lot of face; as soon as Chen Yiran got out of the car, he saw Ellison waiting for him at the door.

As one of the world's top five richest people, Silicon Valley's most notorious bad boy, and Oracle's super dictator, Ellison's attitude towards Chen Yiran has left his employees practically glaring in disbelief.

Ellison greeted Chen Yiran in a very familiar manner, as if the two had known each other for many years: "Haha! Chen! I finally meet you. I wanted to buy your first project last year, although it didn't work out in the end, I still helped you raise the price."

"We finally have a chance to work together. Come with me, let's go to my office to talk."

Ellison has a loud voice and is very energetic; he doesn't look like someone in his sixties at all.

Chen Yiran nodded and said, "Then let me see your office. I just saw McLaren's headquarters a few days ago, and the offices there are really nice. I feel like my company should also consider building a headquarters building. After seeing your office, I feel a bit out of place going back to my little building."

"We'll see how it goes, but I saw in the news that you have some quirks, like not liking loans? With your current annual revenue, hasn't Chase offered you free money?"

"Of course there is. But they are quite tactful. They always just casually mention that they can provide financial support when they are providing services. But I just haven't found an opportunity yet. Even if we need to repair the headquarters, it seems like we don't need to borrow money. I'll be getting a lot of licensing fees next year."

The two chatted as they walked toward the top-floor office.

Chen Yiran confirmed once again that the two of them inexplicably had some chemistry. Although it was their first meeting, they got along very well.

Ellison talked about his sailing team, while Chen Yiran said he was starting to consider acquiring some sports clubs, including racing teams and the Premier League, to see if he could fulfill his childhood dream.

Once we reached the top floor, there was a short corridor outside the elevator. On the wall hung a huge black-and-white photograph of a racing boat in the middle of a competition. The boat was tilted, and the mainsail was billowing in the wind, looking quite impressive.

Ellison boasted, "Look, this is the picture I told you about when Oracle Sailing won the America's Cup in 2010. Next time, we'll be aiming to defend our title."

Upon entering the office, Ellison's Japanese aura immediately struck me.

First of all, the layout is very strange. The room is unusually large, but the desk is ridiculously small, just big enough to fit a monitor and keyboard, and even a teacup would be too much.

Then there are Japanese elements everywhere, with countless Japanese screens hanging on the walls, all hand-painted landscape paintings, and the edges wrapped in gold leaf.

There are three floor-to-ceiling glass cabinets along the wall, containing three complete sets of samurai armor, each helmet with a bizarre shape.

There are tatami mats and white sand like those used in Japanese dojos on the side.

In short, it was a style Chen Yiran didn't like, and it was a waste of the view outside the window. This was the best view from Oracle, offering a complete and unobstructed view of the artificial lake, with the reflections of the six towers forming a rather picturesque arc in the water.

Fortunately, there were normal sofas available. After Ellison and Chen Yiran sat down, Ellison even made Chen Yiran a cup of Japanese matcha.

Chen Yiran had tried matcha-flavored cakes and various other flavored snacks, but this was her first time drinking real matcha. After taking a bite, she couldn't say it was bad, but it certainly wasn't good either.

Ellison was also quite funny; he meticulously followed all the steps of a Japanese tea ceremony, taking three minutes to do something that should have taken 30 seconds.

However, after brewing the first cup, the second cup was made without any steps and was done in 30 seconds.

After taking a sip of tea, Ellison got straight to the point about Oracle's collaborative projects: "You should know that our Oracle database has hundreds of thousands of enterprise users worldwide. Of course, there may only be a few hundred truly super-large users, but the licensing and maintenance fees they can contribute are staggering."

I hope FlowEDA can provide the technology to help us implement a GPU acceleration framework for DeepFlow, making our database searches faster. I'll then offer this as an option to clients, charging based on the size of their contracts.

We won't take any money from it; we don't even need to maintain it, that's all your work.

Chen Yiran nodded: "Okay, no problem, it's just a basic search function, easy to handle. Is there anything else? If it's just this, then it would be a waste of my trip to come all this way."

"There must be something else. I'll give you that brochure later."

He stood up, walked to his desk, and pulled a thick product brochure from the shelf. The cover featured a row of standard black server racks, each about two meters tall, with a red oracle bone script logo printed on the rack's waistline.

"This is Exadata, the Oracle database appliance. It's a server rack with everything pre-installed: servers, hard drives, network switches, and the entire Oracle database software suite. Customers don't need to install anything after buying it; they just plug in the cables and network cable and it's ready to use."

Chen Yiran didn't actually need Ellison's explanation. As Oracle's current very powerful flagship product, Chen Yiran certainly knew what it was.

Oracle Corporation, to put it bluntly, lives off its databases.

Major companies use Oracle software to store all sorts of complex data in Oracle.

For example, logging into your mobile phone and seeing a 30-day bill seems like a simple operation, but in reality, Oracle's database accurately searches through billions of bank data entries to find the specific lines that belong to you.

All-in-one machines, on the other hand, are an option for larger, more financially well-funded companies. They feature superior search technology and an intelligent scanning function that allows the storage server to filter data before returning it, sending only data that meets specific criteria.

Chen Yiran understood: "I do know about Oracle all-in-one machines. Actually, just like the first thing, we still need to adapt the GPU and use my framework to optimize and filter the data, right?"

Ellison nodded and said, "Yes, the fees will be based on a percentage of the Exadata contract amount. We will each bear our own part of the R&D costs, and the revenue will be split based on the number of installations after the product is released. The specific percentages will be determined after the finished product is released."

"Okay, no problem. I'll send an engineering team over to help you with this. If there are any difficulties, I'll step in to help."

After discussing these two matters, both of them relaxed considerably and chatted for a long time about all sorts of things.

Neither of them takes out loans, ignores the board of directors, and collaborates entirely based on personal preferences, resolutely refusing to work with people they don't like.

They shared similar views on property investment, and the two huddled in front of a globe, facing several oceans, discussing their plan to buy an island.

Around noon, Ellison treated Chen Yiran to another meal.

The company regularly employs several Japanese chefs who serve sushi and tempura.

Chen Yiran had thought that there was no more official business for the day. However, during dinner, Ellison brought up the two most important things they wanted to discuss that day.

Ellison said with a slightly serious tone, "Jobs said I would definitely get along with you, even though he's only met you once, but I trust his judgment. He also said you're trustworthy, and like me, you wouldn't betray your friends. I trust his judgment too, so I hope you can do me a favor."

To be honest, I'm not sure if you can do it, but I can't find anyone more suitable. You've probably heard of Oracle's mountain of shit code, right?

After decades of development and numerous mergers and acquisitions, our codebase has become incredibly bloated, but no one dares to touch it. After all, the underlying codebase is decades old, and nobody knows if even a slight change might cause it to crash.

I don't expect you to completely solve it, I just hope you can help me figure out the calling relationships inside, and if it's possible for you to do a code dependency analysis for us.

This allows us to determine which functions each module uses and their approximate call relationships. It also identifies redundant functions that are not called at all and can be modified.

Chen Yiran said, quite shocked, "You want to send me the entire codebase of the database execution engine?"