"For example, this yacht?" Yang Jing asked Lin Dan with his head tilted.

"You could say that." Lin Dan pointed down at the white yacht that was about to pass through the Golden Gate Bridge and enter the open sea. "Larry Ellison knows, right? David Geffen knows, right?"

Yang Jing nodded. Of course he knew Larry Ellison and his Oracle Corporation. As for David Geffen, the American entertainment mogul who once co-founded DreamWorks with Hollywood director Spielberg, Yang Jing had also heard of him.

"The name of this yacht is Rising Sun. It was originally built by Larry Ellison at a huge expense, and later transferred to David Geffen." Lin Dan explained.

"Is this yacht Larry Ellison's Rising Sun?" Yang Jing was really a little surprised. He didn't expect that he would be able to admire this super luxury yacht, which was once the largest in the world, up close on the Golden Gate Bridge.

"Yes, this yacht is the one you mentioned. But eight years ago, this yacht had a new owner. David Geffen is the new owner of this yacht."

"I have heard of this. I also seem to have heard that there was an interesting incident when this yacht was first built. It seems to be related to Bill Gates?"

Lin Dan smiled and shook his head and said, "Brother Yang, some interesting things did happen when this yacht was born, but it was not related to Bill Gates, but to Gates' partner Paul Allen."

"Oh, you know about this? Tell me about it. You're free anyway." Yang Jing turned around and leaned his back on the bridge railing. Since it involved Oracle and Microsoft, Yang Jing became interested. After all, in 1987, the Dragon Fund he controlled was acquiring shares of Microsoft and Oracle, and in the upcoming stock market crash, the Dragon Fund increased its holdings of many of these two companies' shares.

"In fact, the things that happened when this yacht was born had been sufficiently paved long before. Brother Yang, you should know that Oracle and Microsoft have always been at odds with each other, right?"

Yang Jing nodded. Although he was not a target of criticism, he still knew about the conflict between the two giants in the IT industry.

In fact, this contradiction is more derived from Larry Ellison, who is nicknamed "Madman".

Larry Ellison's nickname tells you what kind of person he is. Yes, this guy has an extremely strong personality, especially to his peers, he will never admit defeat.

Of course, his colleagues referred to here are mainly Bill Gates, who is eleven years younger than him but has always surpassed Larry Ellison in personal wealth.

Ellison is eleven years older than Gates. Their companies were founded at about the same time, and both were engaged in the IT industry. But no matter how hard Ellison tried, he could never compete with Gates. Even now, Ellison is still no match for Gates.

The two started competing in the 1980s, and in the 1990s, the competition reached its peak because Larry Ellison was not satisfied with the current wealth ranking calculation method - if it was calculated in his way, he would be the world's richest man. So Ellison, who had always been suppressed by Microsoft and Gates in the second place, had been trying his best to kill Gates and his Microsoft.

In order to defeat Gates, Ellison even resorted to some despicable means, but he was still helpless against Gates.

In 1994, in order to deal with Microsoft, Ellison hired a Microsoft cleaning lady to help him do "Infernal Affairs" activities, and finally found clues to deal with Microsoft from Microsoft's trash can. When Microsoft suddenly received a lawsuit from the US Department of Justice regarding its bundling sales behavior, Microsoft executives including Bill Gates and Paul Allen were caught off guard. This was the "Garbage Gate" incident that caused a sensation in the IT industry.

This incident tells the world the importance of paper shredders!

Bill Gates was furious at Ellison's abnormal tactics. Even he, who was always calm, couldn't help but scold Oracle's despicableness in front of the media: "Look at those seemingly righteous companies, they actually do such despicable things to their competitors!" But the instigator was very proud. Ellison not only quickly admitted that everything was done by him, but also proudly announced, "I am very satisfied with everything I have done."

From then on, the feud between Ellison and Microsoft was sealed. The two IT giants fought without hesitation. No matter what good things happened to one side, the other side would always interfere and make things difficult for the opponent.

This competition has gradually extended from simple business competition at the beginning to all aspects of life.

Among them, the yacht dispute between Ellison and Paul Allen can be regarded as a joke that made the whole world laugh at the beginning of the new century.