Put yourself in LE's shoes and enlighten us as to how yoh would go about doing things for the business to survive
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Companies like Oracle now are latching on to the AI bandwagon. In their minds, they see productivity gains as too hard to pass by. I've heard a few CEOs state that they need to be at the forefront of AI even if it fails. If it fails, they think they will be in a position to affect change. These are now table stakes in Corporate America.
From a Forbes article:
The math is straightforward. Oracle's $553 billion backlog is dominated by large-scale AI contracts, including a $30 billion annual contract with OpenAI and commitments from Meta and xAI. Fulfilling that backlog requires building data centers at a pace Oracle's current balance sheet cannot sustain while keeping 162,000 people on payroll. Something had to give. The payroll gave.
"Where do you live that’s so much better?"
China.
@ff yawn. Tariffs been around for a very long time. Maybe google the word and also google “leaders who handle business”. You sound very weak and uninformed.
@f1 hahahahhahaha. Yeah. Ok. Where do you live that’s so much better? Typical liberal crybaby.
"America is right is treating these dead beat countries like dead beats."
Insult, tariff, and threaten - and then expect them to fight your wars?
Your allies are Russia, Israel and North Korea. Good luck with that.
“ If you have to buy your friends and allies they aren't your friends and allies.”
In future years, students will study this period of the collapse of the American Empire. Fell so much faster than Rome, and mostly self imposed!
cut Larry some slacks, he still has to pay so many child supports and 5 ex-wifey alimoni
It is not going to survive. Nothing lasts forever!
"I haven't seen one country step up to fill in for the billions we used to spend through USAID, Look at the joke that NATO is if the US drops out."
and millions in Africa and Asia will die because you dripped out!
You are aware that Europe, particularly Germany and England, pay as much as America toward the cost of NATO, which is a defensive treaty, not allies to commit war crimes!
I would go on an agressive search and destroy mission to job eliminate all bootlickers. You'd be the first one on the street.
I would first of all reprimand my tw--k bf for posting on this site, but would feel happy he is defending me. Come to bed dear!
In 2025, the quarterly dividend was raised from $0.40 to $0.50 per share, significantly increasing the total annual cash requirement - this was not needed.
The continuous buybacks also do not need to be done - 5.3B was spent on this in 2025.
Just stopping buy backs and not increasing dividends would save billions.
What you should do as an employee?
- Do the bare minimum and don't get in trouble.
- Look for an exit plan.
- Focus on your own interests, just as Oracle is doing.
@ap "either for making good on his gamble or for losing it all."
Oracle is a publicly traded company and isn't LEs to gamble.
@ap "one throat to choke" I thought that this was a business model that died decades ago. Smart businesses have multiple supply chains.
@ar why because America is tired of pandering to everyone else's needs? I haven't seen one country step up to fill in for the billions we used to spend through USAID, Look at the joke that NATO is if the US drops out. The UK needs 2 or more weeks notice to provide one of its 2 aircraft carriers and its "fleet" of combatant ships is around 12 for an island country of around 70 million people. Canada is even worse. Meanwhile all of these "allies" have built social programs for their citizens when America was providing their defense. America is right is treating these dead beat countries like dead beats.
I will say a prayed for Larry if he dies and I still have a job at the big red O
@ar hahahhahaha.
America is a disgrace right now.
@ap LE is just a dragon chaser. He was first to the DB market but has been playing catch up after that.
The problem is that he doesn't want to simply survive, or event to just thrive. He wants to be the next big thing. The emphasis on next! He had the database, then he started adding applications and Operating Systems and hardware and then telephony, and POS and while he might not be the leader is every one of those areas, he had them all and their sales could use the selling point of one throat to choke. People are still using and buying on-premise but Oracle has end dated many of the offerings making them less attractive and effectively ki-ling those lines of business. He hoped that this would push people to his cloud but I don't think companies work like that. Companies may purchase cloud offerings but they focus on services and applications and if the applications they want needs a physical server with a real Operating System then they will buy the hardware and the OS from someone who will support it. Anyway, for years it was cloud....now, it's AI...... so it's not surviving or thriving he's aiming for the record books and will likely get there....either for making good on his gamble or for losing it all.
@OP The answer is simple but it would take a board full of ba--s to actually do it! But we have a set of pu----s
"How much money does poor Larry need before he dies?"
No one will pray for him!
How much money does poor Larry need before he dies?
Agree Oracle is a business and all employment is at will. It's like the fable of the child and the snake, where the child is bitten after being kind to the snake and the snake replies "you always knew I was a snake*.
Get rid of CM. He, and the entire clan of AWS castaways are the cause of Oracle's debt problems, which is starting to look unrecoverable.
No one cares what Larry the loser thinks. Glad I left his "concentration camp" years ago,
survive?
they report record profits