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Question: John DiFucci - Guggenheim Securities LLC - Analyst
: Larry and Safra, I mean there's a lot of good stuff here, but I'd like to ask a question on margins. You keep putting up strong cloud
numbers, especially the OCI numbers that look -- when you give the guidance and you look at what you have to do to hit them, they
look really difficult to do to say the least. We also assume that upside to RPO and you've pointed out, Safra, the sequential increase.
I think the last time there was a sequential increase was because you bought Cerner and they just added RPO because of that. I
assume a big part of that's OCI too.
You mentioned it's cloud, three quarters of it. So that indicates there's more to come, right? So given the mix of business continuing
to lean into that lower margin OCI, and I know you have -- that's changing over time, but it's still lower margin today, how should
we think of overall margins versus profit for the entire company going forward?
Question: John DiFucci - Guggenheim Securities LLC - Analyst
: So is it safe for me to assume that then the upside you keep putting up and you hopefully will continue to do, will add profit and
that profit will actually increase as a percentage of the margins will also increase over time?
Question: Mark Murphy - JPMorgan - Analyst
: Congrats on the great performance. Larry, how do you envision the market transitioning from the AI training phase to the AI
inferencing phase? There's some debate out there on whether we have an imbalance or a bubble on the front end of the curve
because training is compute intensive and then perhaps it recalibrates differently somehow for the inferencing stage, which might
be less intensive? Or do you see the potential for high growth kind of all the way through both of these phases?
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Question: Raimo Lenschow - Barclays - Analyst
: Just a question more on the database side on the agreements that you just announced today or that you have in place and now
added with AWS. So now that we have all the hyperscaler agreements in place, how do you think about that migration movements
from database workloads that are at the moment running on-premise or on cloud customer to the public cloud? I mean how should
we think about that momentum?
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Question: Mark Moerdler - Bernstein - Analyst
: Congratulations on the quarter. Very impressive both the quarter and the guide. We've seen a lot of focus on the model training
side, but less on applications and inferencing in the rest. You guys have a lot of expertise in the market and in the industry. You
already have traditional AI sprinkled throughout all the Oracle products and capabilities.
But where do you see the monetizable value of GenAI on the app side? How long do you think it's going to take for GenAI to be a
meaningful revenue, not just for Oracle, but software in general, on the app side, not on the training side?
Question: Derrick Wood - TD Cowen - Analyst
: Congratulations. Safra, Larry, you guys have had this big inflection in RPO growth over the last few quarters. Could you update us
on how you're feeling about supply availability and your ability to stand up data center infrastructure in a time-efficient manner in
order to move from contract signing to consumption and convert backlog into revenue? And I guess, are you doing anything different
today than, say, a year ago to try and help accelerate these time lines?
Question: Brad Zelnick - Deutsche Bank - Analyst
: And I'll just start by saying I can't remember a Q1 ever being this exciting. Larry, we've talked about a lot of the reasons why you win
in cloud infrastructure, especially by addressing areas of the market where your competitors can't even reach. But in light of many
high-profile cyber incidents lately, can you talk about how being more secure, not just in being so highly automated as you've already
discussed, but how is being more secure helping to win some of these very large OCI deals especially in the U.S. and other governments
around the world?
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