Eweek’s Top 25 Most Influential People in IT List
As a sucker for lists, this one was irresistible.
Actually, Eweek’s full roster is 100 people long, broken into four parts, but I’ll stick to their top 25, who are:
25. Meg Whitman, Ebay
24. Mark Hurd, HP
23. Eric Schmidt, Google E-commerce
22. Mark Russinovich, Microsoft OS design and architecture
21. Rick Rashid, Microsoft R&D
20. Vincent Cerf, Google (co-inventor of TCP/IP)
19. Jonathan Schwartz, Sun Microsystems CEO
18. Paul Otellini, President and CEO of Intel
17. Tim O’Reilly, O’Reilly Media publisher
16. Dr. Alan Kay, Viewpoints Research Institute (pioneer in graphical interfaces and also involved in One Laptop per Child Initiative)
15. Rick Dalzell, Amazon.com CIO
14. Rollin Ford, Wal-Mart CIO
13. Ralph Szygenda, General Motors CIO
12. Blake Ross, Firefox
11. Sam Palmisano, IBM CEO
10. Diane Green, VMware
9. Nicholas Negroponte, One Laptop per Child Initiative
8. Ray Ozzie, Microsoft
7. Mark Benioff, Salesforce.com
6. Steve Jobs, Apple
5. Steve Ballmer, Microsoft
4. Larry Ellison, Oracle
3. Linus Torvalds, Linux
2. Tim Berners-Lee, W3C
1. Sergei Brin and Larry Page, Google
There is obviously a big difference between “influential” and “innovative,” as evidenced by the presence of four Microsofties on the list.
