Well, EMC management is retiring no matter what happens -- so I don't think it would be much of a battle. I also don't think that there is much of a contest between EMC and Oracle in terms of bad behavior: while they might have been similar five years ago, Oracle has distinguished itself with its astonishingly bad behavior in the wake of the Sun acquisition (e.g. Hudson, MySQL, Java, OpenSolaris, OpenOffice, and especially Oracle v. Google) -- and this is to say nothing of their extortion with respect to cloud revenue and license auditing.[1] The big loser here (and indeed, in all of these scenarios) is the EMC customer held hostage by ancient architectures -- and I'm sure that regardless of the outcome, plenty of EMC customers will be accelerating their plans of moving towards open infrastructure...

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/oracle-customer-explains-audi...