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Rebecca Wettemann is CEO of Valoir Research, an analyst firm covering enterprise software, AI, and workplace technology trends.
Almost all of Oracle's near-30% revenue growth came from the single segment that rents AI servers. The buildout behind it runs on debt, and the backlog it feeds is nearly half one customer's contract.
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The $11.36bn of customer prepayments turned what would have been roughly $16.8bn of burn into a $5.40bn shortfall, and it moves the funding question from Oracle's balance sheet to the credit of the customers writing the cheques.
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Adobe's August quarter cleared analyst estimates by about 1 per cent on revenue and 0.8 per cent on adjusted earnings, and the stock fell more than 2 per cent after hours once the guidance was in front of investors.
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Earnings came in ahead of consensus and the full-year range moved up, but the only figure growing at double digits was the $9.03 billion backlog due inside a year, and that is the number being read.
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Adjusted EPS came in at $5.90 against a $3.27 consensus. The revenue beat was 0.26% and the full-year raise 0.43%, which is where the question about agents and seats actually sits.
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Slack shipped agent-run code channels on every plan. The bug-to-ship path can now skip the human engineer, and only "high-stakes actions" are gated.
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