After having spent five days in this nice city I wanted to say goodbye through a post. It's the second time I went here (sadly both times I had to work but I'll come back for fun someday, that for sure) and I really enjoyed the stay.

This time I had a nicer Hotel than last time, right in the city center. Although I didn't enjoy the breakfast at the hotel a single day (I'd rather sleep 15 mins longer) I'll remember these days again for the food: unending mountains of food at all hours.
Last night we went to the Garibaldi which was a delicious goodbye dinner with live music. Besides that not much more to tell, intense but fun work, some WoW, some traffic jams, missing my girlfriend a real lot and kebaps, kebaps, kebaps...

A hearty greeting to my friends in Istanbul. You've tried to make me explode with food but again you didn't succeeed.
Which reminds me, this time I've learned the trick. It's considered bad manner to refuse a dish when getting it offered, and you get it continously. But if you offer back insistently then they'll think about it twice when feeding you up.

While I write these lines the Muezzin are calling to prayer. It's an interesting sound and reminds me that although very similar to our city, it's still quite a different culture. (I'm pretty sure I've heard that article ending before, inside a "Lonely planet" issue or something like that :P)

Recently I stumbled across an interesting article talking about Microsoft, Opensource and ITIL where ossim was being mentioned. (the article can also be found googling for "ossim itil microsoft" in case the link breaks).

I've never been very keen about learning ITIL either (although I've heard about it everywhere during the last year) but this really caught my attention. In that paper ossim gets referenced only on the "security management" section, but I think that's mainly caused by ossim being hard to install, setup and understand when that article was written, so I thought I give it another try from my point of view, taking the included tools into account for the different ITIL sections.

So, the goal of this article would be to extend and improve that other article, giving a thought about how I'd approach all those ITIL recommendations from an OSSIM point of view.

The Information Technology Infrastructure Library is comprised by two main sets and a series of subsets (from what I've read on that article and the wikipedia):

• Service Support
• Service Delivery

Note: The definitions after each topic have been quoted from the MS article since they're small and concise.

Happy new year to everybody.

After moving together with my lovely girlfriend, spending some time with the family during the holidays and getting my undead warlock to lvl 54 it's time to get back to work.

We've got many exciting things in mind involving ossim for 2008 and quite a bit of surprises (positive ones of course :-) ). During the next couple of months we're going to focus on:

• Releasing a new installer version. Starting with 1.0.4 we'll also supply upgrade tools so no worries, it won't be necessary to download and reinstall the whole thing again.
• Further improving documentation. We intend to release online courses soon for remote training, including vmware laboratories.
• Improving ossim. Fixing bugs :-)