I can think of three other reasons to hold the shares now. 1)...

I can think of three other reasons to hold the shares now.

1) you purchased some shares between December and May 2017 - and so get capital gains benefits from holding them for a few more months. This applies to me.
2) You think $7.8 is a bad price and want to vote against the proposal (if you succeed yay, if you fail then you only earn 1.5% in 5 months)
3) you intend buying the shares between now and May, work in foreign currency and want to remove the currency risk. This would apply to Oracle.