Anyone considering or doing ITIL training should read this
"More on ITIL Version 3 certification from Pink Elephant, so good on Pink for giving us some transparency into their thinking. Unfortunately that thinking is a bit alarming. OGC's and APMG's failure to act in the ongoing fiasco which is the ITIL certification industry right now is unacceptable.
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It confirms the IT Skeptic's earlier inference that while Version 2 certifications will continue to be "recognised" as promised, they will be second class certifications that need "upgrading" and do not qualify as prerequisites for any Version 3 study."