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Executive Summary:

What does the BMC acquisition to go private mean for innovation? Microsoft, SAP and Adobe make moves to leverage software as a service and subscription models. Plus, it’s the top of the month so we’ve got IT conferences to tell you about. And some reading for NoSQL pros.

Hosts: John Kresic, Tom Kresic, Mike Kresic

Running Time: 42:16

IT Pro News:

• BMC is going private in a $6.9 Billion deal.

• Shareholders file $1 Billion lawsuit against HP for the Autonomy fiasco.

• Microsoft expanding Office Web Apps. But where is the iOS support?

• Microsoft also working on Windows desktop-as-a-service and Windows Blue.

• The strategy for SAP lives in the cloud.

• Adobe explains its move to licensing software on a subscription basis.

Conference Calendar:

• We cover upcoming IT Conferences during the 1st show of each month.

• Is there a conference you think we should be mentioning in this segment? Let us know!

• Azure Jump Start session, May 16, online

• Microsoft TechEd North America – June 3-6, New Orleans, LA

• Microsoft Build, June 25-28, San Francisco

• Microsoft TechEd Europe – June 25-28, Madrid, Spain

• VMworld US – August 25-29, San Francisco, CA

• VMworld Europe – October 15-17, Barcelona, Spain

IT Pro Bookshelf:

• NoSQL data modeling techniques