Fact checking
EMC does not own Pivotal friends.
From Wiki - Pivotal Software is a spin-out and *joint* venture of EMC Corporation and its subsidiary VMware that combined software products, employees, and lines of businesses from the two parent companies.
Comparing this to Oracle acquiring SUN was really flimsy. SUN was totally dead by then. A non-entity whose market was already gone. VMware is still growing, not quickly, but is not shrinking to death.