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Why is nobody talking about Oracle's imminent demise? (youtube.com)
4 points by JCW2001 57 days ago
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The numbers here are staggering...

Oracle spending ~$340 billion to build infrastructure that generates ~$75 billion annually, financed almost entirely with off-balance-sheet debt, while its free cash flow is negative $24.7 billion.

Yikes.

There are too many moving parts in this financing musical chairs game. At some point it is going to leave some players without a chair.
He's backed by you-know-who. What can go wrong.