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ITIL Version 3 London launch event announced: the IT Skeptic comments

Submitted by skeptic on Sat, 2007-03-31 09:02

Man, news gets old fast. I've just finished giving itSMF heat for lack of an announcement and then today we get this: itSMF Version 3 will be launched June 5 in London. The interesting aspects of the announcement are....

Six reasons to use Live Chat for support

Submitted by skeptic on Sat, 2007-03-31 02:44

The spell is broken, the honeymoon is over. After a year of my raving about Westhost's support, the transition to the IT Skeptic's new server was not as smooth as advertised. They're fallable after all.

The PIllars of ITIL: time for OGC's ITIL to grow up or wither

Submitted by skeptic on Thu, 2007-03-29 04:30

In the early days ITIL was a casual thing: a loose collection of books from a loose collection of experts. Now it is a billion (I guess) dollar industry affecting millions of people. Publishing a few books is not enough any more.

Software branding seems to be in the hands of imbeciles.

Submitted by skeptic on Wed, 2007-03-28 09:27

What is it about these big software companies and their inability to come up with decent branding of their products (and companies)?

ITIL certification and training: Version 2 recognised but not as a prerequisite for Version 3

Submitted by skeptic on Mon, 2007-03-26 20:35

Slowly we unravel the real story behind the impact of ITIL Version 3 Refresh: it seems that your Version 2 Foundation training might be "recognised", but it will not be a recognised foundation for a Version 3 certification. You'll need to do a bridging course first.

The ITIL version 3 Refresh Launch Roadshow: the world waits with bated breath....

Submitted by skeptic on Mon, 2007-03-26 09:26

Something is afoot with the ITIL Refresh. Here we are two months out from worldwide launch in seven countries, and what have we heard about plans for the events? Strange hints as to who is paying for and organising the whole thing mean the IT Skeptic smells a rat.

Microsoft are more avaricious than the Fat ITSM Four, by a nose

Submitted by skeptic on Sat, 2007-03-24 20:22

A recent comment (reposted for your convenience) in response to my item about Microsoft trying to patent CMDB, said

Microsoft is worse than ITIL?
The Vendor and British ITIL cabal are busy redefining their closed, theoretical "framework" to include everything under the sun. And, they seem to be doing it for the express purpose of advancing the vendors sales performance.

Rediscovering the Big Iron

Submitted by skeptic on Fri, 2007-03-23 01:39

Virtualisation, CMDB, autodiscovery, swappable CPUs, intelligent media devices, systems and availability management, capacity modelling... The mainframe worked all this out decades ago. Here's a story I heard from fairly close to the source so it is probably fairly close to the truth. Whatever, it makes a good story

IBM wrote ITIL. In fact Alasdair Meldrum did

Submitted by skeptic on Fri, 2007-03-16 01:18

Just when I say that all the hype is in CMDB and that ITIL in general is ticking along fairly soberly, along comes someone to prove me wrong. Two people actually: someone hyping their own significance; and what passes for a journalist on the web these days uncritically lapping it up.

Vendors should get a vote too? What do you think?

Submitted by skeptic on Wed, 2007-03-14 23:06

The IT Skeptic is considering introducing something soon that allows public voting related to products. I know of vendors rorting such a system by requesting all staff to vote for that vendor's product.

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