Winning 'Sysadmin of the Year' is not quite like becoming Miss America

"You'd think the Sysadmin of the Year winner would get an armful of roses and pour happy tears onto a red-carpeted stage as an overage crooner sings, "Here he comes, Mister Sysadmin of the Year," but this is a different kind of contest. For one thing, there was no swimsuit contest -- although if there had been, winner Michael Beck says he would have worn "orange and black surf shorts."

Sysadmins are often ignored. Pat McGovern, who organized this contest for sponsor Splunk, says, "no one talks to sysadmins unless something breaks." McGovern says his company "has gotten a lot of compliments" for organizing the Sysadmin of the Year event -- mostly from sysadmins, we suspect, but that doesn't make the idea any less valid."

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