Oracle is scheduled to report earnings after the closing bell Thursday, with traders anticipating a big move from the database and cloud infrastructure giant’s stock.

(Corrects to add dropped word "its" in paragraph 3) By Deborah Mary Sophia and Stephen Nellis Sept 10 (Reuters) - Oracle topped Wall Street estimates for quarterly results on Thursday and reported a smaller cash burn than expected,

Oracle walks into tonight's report carrying a backlog so enormous it rewrote what investor visibility means, yet the stock has shed a third of its value in a year and sits lower again today. Whether management can prove it converts contracts into cash fast enough to justify a $70 billion spending binge is the only question that matters.