December 2008, Compuware conducted a survey of 107 IT professionals in Australia, 49 percent stated they had already adopted the ITIL V3 Service Operation component - the component most in common with ITIL V2.
In a similar survey conducted a year earlier, the results found that more organizations expected to adopt Service Strategy than any other ITIL V3 component.
Possibly, organizations are seeing more value during the current economic conditions to focus on those ITIL areas that can provide short term returns......perhaps ITIL v2 still has considerable value to offer an organization.