100 Most Influential People in IT - Nos. 26-50 (
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26. Bob Muglia
Senior vice president, Server and
Tools Business, Microsoft
If Microsoft's launches of the 2008 versions of SQL Server, Visual Studio and
Windows Server go well, the future is Muglia’s.
27. Azim Premji
Chairman, Wipro Technologies
Premji has led Wipro, of
Bangalore,
India, since 1966, when it
was a cooking fat company. Today, Wipro has $5 billion in revenue and it provides
IT services via a global delivery platform.
28. Scott Guthrie
Corporate vice president, .Net
Developer Platform, Microsoft
Guthrie
oversees several development teams responsible for delivering Visual Studio
tools and .Net Framework technologies.
29. Eva Chen
CEO, Trend Micro
Under Chen’s leadership, Trend Micro continues to engineer security software
that outperforms the competitions.
30. Brendan Eich
CTO, Mozilla Corp.
Eich helps ensure that the browser is up to the task of acting as the operating
system— running an increasing number of mission-critical enterprise
applications in the cloud.
31. John Halamka
CIO, CareGroup Health System, Harvard
Medical School and Harvard Clinical Research Institute
In addition to his CIO role, Dr. Halamka serves as an e-health adviser to both
Microsoft and Google.
32. Paul Otellini
President and CEO, Intel
Otellini has helped get Intel back on track as the top producer of x86
processors for servers, desktops and laptops after struggling against Advanced
Micro Devices for years.
33. Rollin Ford
CIO, Wal-Mart
The world’s largest retailer, Wal-Mart, sets technology direction.
34. Steve Mills
Senior vice president and group
executive, IBM
Mills oversees all of IBM’s software efforts.
35. Tim Berners-Lee
Director, World Wide Web Consortium
The inventor of the Web—and the man who’s envisioning its future with the
Semantic Web.
36. Kevin Martin
Chairman, Federal Communications
Commission
Martin sets the telecommunications agenda, with his influence keenly felt
lately around spectrum and net neutrality issues.
37. Michael Howard
Principal security program manager,
Microsoft
Howard is co-author of Microsoft’s Security Development Lifecycle. His
influence is so significant that companies outside of Microsoft are
implementing their own versions of SDL.
38. Andrew McAfee
Associate professor,
Harvard
Business
School
McAfee is a torchbearer for the emerging
Enterprise 2.0 market.
39. Nicholas Negroponte
Founder, One Laptop Per Child
Negroponte, also founder and chairman emeritus of MIT’s Media Lab, rocked the
IT industry with the introduction of the XO—as much for the laptop’s technology
innovations as for the project’s philanthropic spirit.
40. Mark Zuckerberg
Founder, Facebook
The 23-year-old Zuckerberg stole the social networking crown from MySpace and
has built a thriving community of third-party developers.
41. Elizabeth Hight
Navy rear admiral, vice director,
Defense Information Systems Agency
Nominated to take over DISA, Hight is also commander of the Joint Task Force
for Global Network Operations—a big job any time, but really tough during
wartime.
42. Jack Ma Yun
CEO, Alibaba
His Alibaba efforts—an English-language business-to-business site for
international buyers looking to contact Chinese sellers and a Chinese language
site focused on B2B trades inside China—lead China’s burgeoning e-commerce
market.
43. Window Snyder
Chief security something or other,
Mozilla
A former Microsoft security strategist, Snyder borrowed a page from
Redmond’s playbook and
introduced a comprehensive threat-modeling and penetration-testing routine to Mozilla.
44. Robert LeBlanc
General manager, IBM Global
Consulting Services and SOA
LeBlanc is leading the all-important SOA charge at IBM.
45. Marc Andreessen
Entrepreneur
Co-author of Mosaic, co-founder of Netscape, chairman of Opsware and now
co-founder of Ning, an up-and-coming social network platform. We’re starting to
lose track of Andreessen’s many tech lives—and wide-ranging influence.
46. Tony Scott
CIO, Microsoft
Scott oversees Microsoft’s 4,000-person IT operation, whose practice of “eating
its own dog food” makes Scott an early indicator of whether new products are
ready for enterprise consumption.
47. Randall Stephenson
Chairman, AT&T
Back from being broken up, AT&T is now calling the shots for a mobile
world.
48. Ralph Szygenda
CIO, General Motors
Still the
general of CIOs, but his company is challenged.
49. Marc Tremblay
Sun fellow, senior vice president and
chief architect of microelectronics, Sun Microsystems
Tremblay helped develop the UltraSPARC family of processors and now the “Rock,”
a processor set for release in 2009 designed with parallel computing in mind.
50. Mark Lewis
President, Content Management and
Archiving Division, EMC
Previously EMC CTO, Lewis leads the division that helps companies create value
from all the data EMC technology stores.
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