Oracle (ORCL) perpetual market

Oracle is one of the world's largest enterprise software companies, founded in 1977 by Larry Ellison and long dominant in database software that underpins the record-keeping of banks, governments and corporations. For decades its relational databases and business applications were core infrastructure for large organizations. More recently Oracle has repositioned around cloud computing, building Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to compete with the larger hyperscalers and moving its databases and applications into the cloud on a subscription basis. It has won attention as a provider of the computing capacity used to train and run large artificial intelligence models, signing major deals to supply cloud infrastructure to AI companies, which has reinvigorated its growth story. Oracle also owns the NetSuite and Cerner businesses, the latter extending it into health records. Still guided by the influential Ellison, Oracle is a bellwether for enterprise technology spending and cloud adoption.