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The Skeptical Informer, February 2008, Volume 2, No. 2

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The newsletter of the IT Skeptic. All the IT skeptical news that is fit to print... and then some!

New Zealand television news has declined so far that they think it news when some trashy pop tart re-admits herself to the nut-house. So when the Mickeysoft bid for Yahoo makes the 6pm headlines, it means something. When the battle royal between them and Google is drawn to the attention of the great unwashed masses, there is a message there. The trouble is I'm not entirely sure what it is. I do know that this kind of competition will likely be a good thing for the internet community.



We could use some competition in the IT operations BOK space. Right now there is only one game in town, ITIL. And it shows. It shows in the arrogance of the certification industry, who design training to suit themselves not their clients. It shows in the ITIL aristocracy, who think they can do what they like without reference to the peasants funding the whole circus. It shows in the user community, rendered apathetic through lack of choice or excitement.



What the IT community needs is a bloody good stoush, a cracking brawl between two competing bodies of knowledge. ITIL needs a challenger to keep it honest.



I had high hopes for ISO20000, but it seems too big, too abstract, too challenging, too something... The response to date has been underwhelming.



It could have been MOF, except for the Microsoft kiss of death.



There are multiple wanna-be challengers out there, but all lack something to give them serious momentum.



Perhaps IBM really will do something, like I once suggested in jest. Or ITSMBOK will find a heavy backer to give it some oomph. Or itSMF USA will break away, toss the tea in the harbour (sorry, "harbor") and do their own un-British thing.



Somebody, somewhere do something! This smug complacent decadence is infuriating.
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