>The Ellison's had to go like $89 billion into debt to make this merger, Not really. They have the money. It's not like they borrowed it from the bank, and now they have to make a go of this new business, or the family goes bankrupt, and the kids can't go to college. They've probably already replaced the money they spent. You're thinking like a regular person. It's not like they really *spent* money on anything. They made a deal to acquire an enormous revenue stream. Is it really spending money, when you convert a few billion dollars into trillions of dollars until the end of time?