100 Most Influential People in IT
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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.
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.
Corporate vice president, .Net Developer Platform, Microsoft
Guthrie
oversees several development teams responsible for delivering Visual Studio
tools and .Net Framework technologies.
CEO, Trend Micro
Under Chen's leadership, Trend Micro continues to engineer security software that outperforms the competitions.
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.
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.
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.
CIO, Wal-Mart
The world's largest retailer, Wal-Mart, sets technology direction.
Senior vice president and group executive, IBM
Mills oversees all of IBM's software efforts.
Director, World Wide Web Consortium
The inventor of the Web-and the man who's envisioning its future with the Semantic Web.
Chairman, Federal Communications Commission
Martin sets the telecommunications agenda, with his influence keenly felt lately around spectrum and net neutrality issues.
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.
Associate professor,
Harvard
Business
School
McAfee is a torchbearer for the emerging
Enterprise 2.0 market.
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.
Founder, Facebook
The 23-year-old Zuckerberg stole the social networking crown from MySpace and has built a thriving community of third-party developers.
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.
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.
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.
General manager, IBM Global Consulting Services and SOA
LeBlanc is leading the all-important SOA charge at IBM.
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.
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.
Chairman, AT&T
Back from being broken up, AT&T is now calling the shots for a mobile world.
CIO, General Motors
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.
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.
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.
Chairman, Wipro Technologies
Premji has led Wipro, of
Corporate vice president, .Net Developer Platform, Microsoft
CEO, Trend Micro
Under Chen's leadership, Trend Micro continues to engineer security software that outperforms the competitions.
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.
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.
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.
CIO, Wal-Mart
The world's largest retailer, Wal-Mart, sets technology direction.
Senior vice president and group executive, IBM
Mills oversees all of IBM's software efforts.
Director, World Wide Web Consortium
The inventor of the Web-and the man who's envisioning its future with the Semantic Web.
Chairman, Federal Communications Commission
Martin sets the telecommunications agenda, with his influence keenly felt lately around spectrum and net neutrality issues.
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.
Associate professor,
McAfee is a torchbearer for the emerging
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.
Founder, Facebook
The 23-year-old Zuckerberg stole the social networking crown from MySpace and has built a thriving community of third-party developers.
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.
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.
Chief security something or other, Mozilla
A former Microsoft security strategist, Snyder borrowed a page from
General manager, IBM Global Consulting Services and SOA
LeBlanc is leading the all-important SOA charge at IBM.
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.
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.
Chairman, AT&T
Back from being broken up, AT&T is now calling the shots for a mobile world.
CIO, General Motors
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.
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.
