100 Most Influential People in IT - Nos. 1-25 (
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1.
Larry Ellison
CEO,
Oracle
Ellison's plan
to roll up the enterprise applications' space has shown no sign of slowing.
Oracle has leveraged its strength in the data center to cement its status as
one of the world's most important applications and middleware vendors. For more
on Ellison's influence, click here.
2. Steve Jobs
CEO, Apple
Apples influence is being increasingly felt in the enterprise.
3. Steve Ballmer
CEO, Microsoft
Microsoft has certainly had some challenges of late. Now, the company moves
forwardwith Ballmer at the helm.
4. Sam Palmisano
Chairman and CEO, IBM
Palmisano has positioned IBM to generate great returns in a mature marketby
expanding internationally and finding opportunities in the enterprise applications'
space.
5. Marissa Mayer
Vice president, search products and
user experience, Google
Mayer oversees the way Google's search engine is constructed and how usable
it is to people all over the world.
6. Jean-Philippe Courtois
President, Microsoft International,
Microsoft
Courtois leads global sales, marketing and services for Microsoft
International in more than 240 countries outside the
United States and
Canada.
7. Joe Tucci
Chairman, president and CEO, EMC
Tucci is taking EMC on a trip beyond storage.
8. Mark Hurd
Chairman, president and CEO,
Hewlett-Packard
Hurd has beefed up HPs software division and its services portfolio.
9. John Chambers
Chairman and CEO, Cisco Systems
IP is increasingly becoming the channel by which all communication travels,
and Cisco is providing not only the plumbing, but also the applications.
10. Larry Page & Sergey Brin
President of products and president
of technology, respectively, Google
The founders of Google changed expectations for search engines, and now theyre
doing the same with a growing suite of applications that have paved the way for
a top-down model of technology implementation.
11. John Johnson
CIO, Intel
Johnson undertook one of the worlds largest mobile computing efforts: Some 85
percent of Intel employees are now free from their desktops, resulting in
double-digit productivity gains.
12. Kevin Turner
COO, Microsoft
The former Wal-Mart exec has succeeded as COOwhile other outsiders have
floundered in the role.
13. Ray Ozzie
Chief software architect, Microsoft
Outside Microsoft, Ozzie is known as the person responsible for the companys
forward-thinking services' strategy. Within some quarters of Microsoft, he is
known for building out the services' vision and platform, while letting other
executives take credit.
14. Marc Benioff
CEO, Salesforce.com
Benioff was at
the forefront of the SAAS (software as a service) revolution, and he
continues to lead the charge.
15. Linus Torvalds
Developer, Linux Foundation
He developed Linux, which is arguably the first open-source app widely used in
the enterprise, and his influence on the kernel continues to be felt on a
day-to-day basis.
16. Jonathan Schwartz
President and CEO, Sun
Hitching his companys horse to open source, Schwartz is making sure the
Sun doesnt set.
17. Jeff Bezos
Chairman and CEO, Amazon.com
Bezos is constantly evolving Amazon.com, from Web-based bookseller to
uber-online retailer to cloud computing provider.
18. Michael Dell
CEO, Dell
Dell is back and ready to rumble in the enterprise space.
19. Barbara Desoer
CTO & COO, Bank of
America
Banks, mortgages and acquisitions all come together in her tech operations
during a difficult economic time.
20. Diane Greene
President and CEO, VMware
Greene believed in virtualization when no one else did. Now she has to defend
VMwares turf as virtualization becomes common wisdom.
21. Nandan Nilekani
Co-chairman, Infosys Technologies
Nilekani has been instrumental in making
India an IT force and is
still coming on strong.
22. Mendel Rosenblum
Chief scientist, VMware
Rosenblum has enormous influence over the development of the hypervisor and is
working on new areas for the company to explore.
23. Rob Carter
CIO, FedEx
Carter is widely considered the most innovative and effective CIO in the
United States.
24. Peter Weill
Director, Center for Information
Systems Research
As the director and senior research scientist at CISR, a research group at the
MIT Sloan School of Management, Weill conducts research on the role and value
of IT in the enterprise.
25. Henning Kagermann
Co-CEO, SAP
SAP software is used at all the big companies, and Kagermann would like it to
run at small and midsize companies, too. It was recently announced that
Kagermann will share the post of CEO with Leo Apotheker. Kagermann plans to step
down in 2009.
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