@dhays
Mergers of this size have to be mutual affairs because nobody can raise the 100 billion in cash to "buy" the other one. Stock swaps are about the only way, and that takes reasonable cooperation from the stockholders. Ellison might be able to dictate to Oracle stockholders, because he personally owns a huge chunk of it. But HP is one of the most widely held stocks on the NYSE with some concentration in institutional hands but not that much.
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