The IT Skeptic - Comments for "Today’s shock joint announcement from Microsoft and IBM throws ITIL Refresh into doubt"

MS and IBM Team Up

ITILustrator — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 20:19:26 +0000

Does IBM have any good friends?

MS and IBM Team up

bobgrins — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:06:20 +0000

I knew it was a hoax in the opening paragraph. Any quote of Microsoft saying, "our good friends at IBM" has got to be a spoof.

Best Regards,
BobGrins

carefully read the last line

skeptic — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 20:55:34 +0000

carefully read the last line of the last paragraph, or check the publication date... no, sorry

for real

nn — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:54:14 +0000

Is this for real?? Did IBM and MS really team up??

I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the answer is YES!

How To

skeptic2 — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:58:25 +0000

I too am a skeptic...how and where did you go to download the pdfs? i tried the url link provided unsuccessfully?

Yeah I do, sigh.....

skeptic — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 19:39:02 +0000

Yeah I do, sigh..... The Skeptic is a bit stretched this month. I think I'll leave geography alone for a while.

Ya got me!

Alan — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 16:46:25 +0000

Should I do it.....should I not do it.....vacillating.....ok, I'll do it....

um, er. Not to pick any nits, but I think you mean Saigon, not Hanoi....?

Ya got me!

skeptic — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 20:04:08 +0000

Ya got me! I knew that but I got sloppy. Mighta known I wouldn't get away with it...

Re spelling, I still use Burma, Madras, and Hanoi...

April Fools: Setting the Record Straight

Alan — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 15:04:16 +0000

You wouldn't believe how many times I have argued w/ Beijing taxi drivers that no, Mongolia (Outer - at least) is not a Chinese province. It's its own country, where they've had free and open governance since the early '90's. In my eyes, as far as visibility goes, it's kind of like the Canada of Central Asia. :-)

If the Chinese government were to release its own version of ITIL, based in the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region, it would be based out of Hohhot, the capital of that province.

Other than that, no major complaints. Enjoyed the posting. It's not often that my two focus areas of ITIL and Mongolia get mentioned in the same sentence.

...and Ulan Bator is the old Russian spelling. These days, the appropriate spelling is Ulaanbaatar.

Seen is believing and I'm now a believer

David Nyman — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 08:18:57 +0000

But I thought it was to good to be true. Sorry for doubting but I guess I'm a bit "Skeptic" too. Until I downloaded and saw the PDFs I just couldn't believe it. This must be the revolution for the ITSM area we have all been waiting for! No doubt Shaire Tailor has changed teams...and with that starting contribution I'm thinking of heading a chapter of the itSMG in Mongolia :-)

Similarities? I'm sure the Roadshow team wish

skeptic — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 02:12:11 +0000

Similarities? I'm sure the Roadshow team wish they had $1.4M marketing funds and just one Gulf War general.

IL20000 is really a great story...

David Nyman — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 01:22:50 +0000

...told on April 1st. But one has to give credit to the author that really has made an effort to put in a lot of details (or should I say similarities?) to the ITIL Refresh project. Good work. I wouldn't wait for the Spanish, or any translation if I were you... ;-)

Well... until they decide to translate IL20k to Spanish

Visitor — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 23:35:56 +0000

then we will find the same errors than in localized version of MS and OBM products an manuals...but I think that IBM will enhance ISO20k with red books and, of course, MOF is really a rocket launch for the standards!

I think those guys have saved the future of service management!

Thanks!

Visitor — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 22:26:20 +0000

Thanks for the information!

I downloaded the PDFs. I was very pleased with the new updates to ITIL!

I was a little surprised to see so many spelling and grammatical errors there were. Helpfully Microsoft and IBM won't make the same mistakes.