The Unfashionable Giant Wakes Up
When a company like Oracle sees its future contracted revenue, or what the suits call ‘Remaining Performance Obligation’, jump by 41 percent, I sit up and take notice. That isn’t just a good quarter. It’s a signal that the world’s largest corporations are finally moving past the experimental phase with AI. They are now signing enormous, multi-year cheques to build the infrastructure needed to actually run it.
For years, the narrative was that the cloud wars were a three-horse race between Amazon, Microsoft, and Google. Oracle was, to put it mildly, an afterthought. Yet here it is, becoming a genuine competitor by providing the raw computing power that enterprises desperately need. It seems the demand for AI infrastructure is so vast that it’s lifting all boats, even the ones we thought were permanently moored in the harbour.