joining us on the phone, oracle ceo mark hurd. you with us. >> thanks, jon, good to be with you. >> so some on the street are turning a bit skeptical of the cloud growth story at oracle because you stopped breaking out as many cloud only numbers, cloud service and support numbers came in lighter than they hoped what's going on here are you at oracle paying more attention to margins and making sure your cloud growth has a level of profitability versus top line you were telling a story in the call about winning deals from the likes of workday, but it isn't what they hoped for. >> let me try to unpack that that's about 8 questions at a time let me do the best i can pretty rowdy behind you, jon >> sorry, mark eventbrite just opened we will get the viewers an update on how that's performing at the open, but for now, we want to get to your answer on the cloud at oracle. >> sure. i think first on the reporting issue you described, we were trying to align our reporting directly to our strategy, so that we don't report something that isn't

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