Money Well Spent?

The ever interesting Larry Ellison seems to have made a most unusual purchase:

Larry Ellison has closed a deal to buy most the Hawaiian island of Lanai for an undisclosed sum.

The Oracle chief executive as agreed to purchase 98 percent of the 141-square-mile island, Hawaii's sixth-largest by acreage, according to a statement issued today by the Hawaii governor's office

That's one way to ensure you end up with good neighbors.