Annual System Administrator Appreciation Day

On July 28th, 2006 is the 7th annual System Administrator Appreciation Day and you can give your System Administrator something that shows that you truly appreciate their hard work.

The first SysAdminDay was held in July 2000. Held the last Friday in July, SysAdmin Day is a chance for thousands of sysadmins, IT, and network professionals all around the world to be recognized for their long hours, hard work and dedication.

So what does a System Administrator do?

“The challenge of a sysadmin is making a computing system — a whole network of resources and servers and software — work together, work right, work even when parts of it fail — and work for you.

That’s the most important job of the sysadmin: to work for you. To take the staggering array of technologies, acronyms, protocols, networks, vendors, budgets, limited time, competing products, and threats to the computing network, assemble them all together in a working system. Their job is not only to be the geek in the corner who types all day. What they’re doing is bringing these diverse pieces of techonology into order, and fitting them together to fill your needs at work and home; to translate the world of computing into human terms.”

Many times you don’t know your System Administrators, but they know you well. This is one day to recognize your System Administrator for their workplace contributions and thank them for all the things they do for you and your business.