http://www.itskeptic.org/it-skeptic-awards-2008 Comments for "The IT Skeptic Awards for 2008" en http://www.itskeptic.org/it-skeptic-awards-2008#comment-6294 <p>Thank you for the Skeptic’s Banner of Best Individual Contribution to itskeptic.org.<br /> The trophy looks really nice on my virtual fireplace. I wonder if other nominees will come to pick up theirs. </p> <p>Philippe!</p> Sun, 03 Jan 2010 11:43:00 +0000 Philippe comment 6294 at http://www.itskeptic.org http://www.itskeptic.org/it-skeptic-awards-2008#comment-3983 <p>Nice. Two in particular I like:</p> <p>ITIL Live - quite inappropriately named since as far as I can see it's dead in the water. I signed up for the free demo - I thought that maybe TSO had restricted access to parts of the product for the purposes of the demo - but no, it really is that poor. I'm now getting TSO chasing me to sign up for a subscription. They have reduced the price for a single-user licence to a mere £950 (+VAT) for the first year (then presumably it's back up to the normal rate of £2500). Surprisingly, TSO say the take-up has been "slow". I spoke with a couple of the reviewers of the material - I think they were regretting becoming reviewers, because the quality of the material is so poor, but it was published anyway.</p> <p>The second imprint of the ITIL v3 books. Not sure if this is OGC or TSO to blame. I'm on the itSMF UK Publications committee, and at a recent committee meeting the TSO representative was giving an update and just mentioned in passing that the second imprint had been released; there was the sound of a collection of jaws hitting the table. All the points you raised were mentioned. They didn't seem to see the problem! There were two of the v3 authors present - they were a little surprised that they had not been asked to review the changes before publication.</p> <p>Brian</p> Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:22:22 +0000 BrianB comment 3983 at http://www.itskeptic.org