New year and new victories

Dear habrovchane! We sincerely wish you a Happy New Year!



This year, for sure, was remembered by many events for you. Under the cut, we publish interesting statistics from the contest "System Administrator 2012".

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And the one who reads the post to the end, one of the first to know the curious news from our company.







Competition "System Administrator 2012": the most interesting.



Of course, an unforgettable event was the contest "System Administrator", timed to coincide with the professional holiday of all system administrators. It has been held by Aydeko for several years in a row. This year the competition was held on a special scale: there were even more prizes, and the tasks were even more difficult.



About the competition in numbers:



• The number of participants in the competition this year exceeded 70 thousand;

• 2814 participants received the status of Guru admins;

• 9405 - received the status of "Pro";

• The smartest admins of this year live in Moscow. St. Petersburg is in the second place, Kiev is in the third.

• Interesting fact: three quarters of our participants (74%) read Habrahabr.

• After Habrahabr, Opennet was the favorite resource of most Gurus, and most of the pros were Ru-board.

• Most of the participants are IT professionals with great experience. Experience over 5 years indicated 43.1%.

• Most Gurus (66%) use the Android mobile platform.

• Among our participants, 45.7% are Windows admins, 14.3% are Linux admins, and 40% know both.

• Only 45.5% of the contest participants have Windows installed on their machines, and 11.2% - only Linux. And 43.3% use both operating systems.

• The average age of participants is 38 years.

• Thick paper books for professional development prefer to study 27.6% of the Profi and 31.6% of the Gurus.



What else remember the competition this year?



On the Day of the system administrator on the contest website, we organized a real holiday for all participants. To do this, we invited beautiful models, a specialist in body art, a professional photographer and talented artists. Photos of everything that was happening were published on the admin2012.ru contest website on-line.







A unique event was also organized: we suggested that participants first guess what product the Aydeko company is going to produce in the near future, and then come up with an original and beautiful name for this product.



A huge number of participants responded to this idea, we were sent several hundred different names. And the winner of the mini-name contest got the “System Administrator” symbol - an exclusive clay shaman with a tambourine, on which artists worked all day.







By the way, the new product, for which our participants came up with the name, has already been released in beta. You can familiarize yourself with it on the special site http://pbx.ideco.ru/ . The name suggested by the winner will be used in one way or another in the first release.



Congratulations to all the upcoming holidays!