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Oracle’s revenue rose 30% year on year to $19.3bn in its latest quarter, while its remaining performance obligations climbed to $664bn, according to The Motley Fool. The business is increasingly tied to AI infrastructure, with customers prepaying for accelerators or bringing their own hardware.
Why it mattersOracle says it expects to convert half that backlog into revenue over the next three years, although the article’s bullish case remains an investment opinion, not a guarantee. The useful signal is that AI demand is showing up in cloud contracts as well as chip sales. The less glamorous bit, naturally, is whether Oracle can turn those promises into cash without letting capital costs eat the lunch.
Discuss: Does Oracle’s huge AI-related backlog show durable demand, or is it mainly shifting the financial risk from customers to the cloud provider?
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