Aprigo's Sysadmin Appreciation Day Giveaway

We just launched a giveaway to coincide with International Sysadmin Appreciation day on 7/31, so I thought this may be of interest to some of the folks on the sysadmin network. Here's the post, copied from our blog:

Just two days ago we learned of a holiday that is in dire need of more recognition: Sysadmin Appreciation Day, and we want to celebrate. From the Sysadmin Day web site:

Friday, July 31, 2009, is the 10th annual System Administrator Appreciation Day. On this special international day, give your System Administrator something that shows that you truly appreciate their hard work and dedication. (All day Friday, 24 hours, your local timezone).
Let’s face it, System Administrators get no respect 364 days a year. This is the day that all fellow System Administrators across the globe, will be showered with expensive sports cars and large piles of cash in appreciation of their diligent work. But seriously, we are asking for a nice token gift and some public acknowledgment. It’s the least you could do.

We couldn’t agree more, and that’s why we’re announcing the Aprigo Sysadmin Appreciation Day Giveaway.

From now until the morning of July 31st, sysadmins and IT Managers are encouraged to sign up here. The first 100 who sign up will receive a $10 iTunes gift card via email on 7/31.

A little bit about Aprigo: We’re a Waltham, MA based startup building a suite of SaaS IT Applications that help IT Pros in mid-size companies better manage massive file growth both on-site and in the cloud. We’ll be launching the free version of our product next month, and if you sign up for the giveaway we’ll let you know as soon as our free product is ready.

Here’s how the giveaway works:

If you’re currently a sysadmin or IT manager at a company, just fill in the form here. On July 31st, we’ll send you an email with a code that you can redeem at iTunes.

There are only 3 rules:

1. You have to be a sysadmin or IT Manager at a company (ideally at a company with 100 or more employees)- We’d love to give these away to everyone, but hey, we’re a startup, so please enter only if you’re really a sysadmin at a company.
2. Only one entry per person
3. You have to use a valid work email address. We can’t accept entries from gmail addresses, hotmail, etc., as it’s incredibly easy to create a bunch of bogus email addresses to get repeat entries

And a little bit of radical transparency here: This is most certainly a marketing campaign. Since we’re about to launch a free version of a product that can help sysadmins and IT pros balance shrinking budgets with massive file growth, we want to be able to let them know when it’s ready for them to check out. So if you sign up for this giveaway, we’ll send you an email when we launch (and of course, you can always unsubscribe at any time….we’re not spammers here).

That’s it. We’ve only got 100 of these, so as soon as we have 100 entries, the giveaway will end. Sign up today!