--- title: Premium: The Hater’s Guide To Oracle (Part 2) | daily.dev description: A critical deep-dive into Oracle's financial health arguing the company has been in a slow decline for nearly a decade, surviving through aggressive... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/premium-the-hater-s-guide-to-oracle-part-2--iow3awpce twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Premium: The Hater’s Guide To Oracle (Part 2) | daily.dev og:description: A critical deep-dive into Oracle's financial health arguing the company has been in a slow decline for nearly a decade, surviving through aggressive... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/premium-the-hater-s-guide-to-oracle-part-2--iow3awpce og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/iOW3awpCE.png og:image:alt: Premium: The Hater’s Guide To Oracle (Part 2) og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Premium: The Hater’s Guide To Oracle (Part 2) **[Where's Your Ed At](https://daily.dev/sources/wheresyoured)** · 6 min read · 7 upvotes · 2 comments ## Summary A critical deep-dive into Oracle's financial health arguing the company has been in a slow decline for nearly a decade, surviving through aggressive acquisitions, customer price gouging, and accounting maneuvers rather than organic growth. The piece contends that Oracle's massive bet on AI infrastructure — including $55.6 billion in capex in FY2026 alone and a $300 billion deal with OpenAI — has broken its historically conservative financial discipline, pushing free cashflow negative for the first time since 2001 and tripling its debt to $167.4 billion. The author believes Oracle's AI overcommitment will ultimately be what kills the company. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@georgeongoro** · 0 upvotes > Everyone is moving towards AI now **@daniel8000** · 0 upvotes > We live in the era when economic reality can be fully misaligned with just reality, and it can be like this for decades :D So I dont expect this baloon of bullshit to pop. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Premium: The Hater's Guide to Oracle](https://daily.dev/posts/premium-the-hater-s-guide-to-oracle-qmibgl4xp) · Where's Your Ed At · 17 upvotes · 0 comments - [Premium: How OpenAI Kills Oracle](https://daily.dev/posts/premium-how-openai-kills-oracle-shugooijk) · Where's Your Ed At · 3 upvotes · 1 comments - [Oracle takes on $18B debt amid AI infrastructure gamble](https://daily.dev/posts/oracle-takes-on-18b-debt-amid-ai-infrastructure-gamble-htshbebyu) · The Register · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#cloud](https://daily.dev/tags/cloud), [#openai](https://daily.dev/tags/openai), [#oracle](https://daily.dev/tags/oracle) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/premium-the-hater-s-guide-to-oracle-part-2--iow3awpce) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Premium: The Hater’s Guide To Oracle (Part 2)","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/premium-the-hater-s-guide-to-oracle-part-2--iow3awpce","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/premium-the-hater-s-guide-to-oracle-part-2--iow3awpce"},"datePublished":"2026-07-24T16:57:43.616Z","dateModified":"2026-07-24T19:10:02.299Z","description":"A critical deep-dive into Oracle's financial health arguing the company has been in a slow decline for nearly a decade, surviving through aggressive...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/574adc906abb37956ea31d3307bf03c0?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/574adc906abb37956ea31d3307bf03c0?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Where's Your Ed At","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Where's Your Ed At","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--_fiBlTSf--/f_auto/v1737645971/logos/wheresyoured","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/wheresyoured"},"commentCount":2,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/premium-the-hater-s-guide-to-oracle-part-2--iow3awpce","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":7},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":2}],"keywords":"cloud,openai,oracle","timeRequired":"PT6M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Where's Your Ed At","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/wheresyoured"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Premium: The Hater’s Guide To Oracle (Part 2)"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/premium-the-hater-s-guide-to-oracle-part-2--iow3awpce","comment":[{"@type":"Comment","text":"Everyone is moving towards AI now","datePublished":"2026-07-25T20:45:40.916Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/iOW3awpCE#c-sip1QMA2R","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"George Ongoro","url":"https://daily.dev/georgeongoro","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--jXl_MleY--/f_auto/v1779359556/avatars/avatar_JCfNZtLPNzTFifdLCBjRk?_a=BAMAMiWQ0"}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"We live in the era when economic reality can be fully misaligned with just reality, and it can be like this for decades :D So I dont expect this baloon of bullshit to pop.","datePublished":"2026-07-27T10:22:14.243Z","dateModified":"2026-07-27T12:12:56.197Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/iOW3awpCE#c-uyYKyUjds","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Daniel","url":"https://daily.dev/daniel8000","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--F_RltCZK--/f_auto/v1738746891/avatars/avatar_SOwG1kJqf6HK6TkGmZH45"}}]} ```