Patience is a virtue. EMC will continue buying the stock. They have also purchased millions of shares over the past two years at prices much higher than the current price.
Best approach - just buy maybe 1/4 of your desired ultimate position at a time, maybe at $5 intervals on the way down. The shorts are in control of this until someone comes out and pounds the table telling the lemmings to buy. It will happen, it's just a matter of what point that happens at.
I wouldn't be surprised if in a week or two, we see some other Barron's journalist write an article about how VMW is so undervalued now.