In Part 2, youll find #75 through 51 of this four-part series. Go here to see Part 1, #100 through 76.
2Top 100 Most Influential People in IT, Part 2 – Wired Chief
#75 Chris Anderson – Wired Editor in chief of Wired and author of The Long Tail, the current hot book on Web strategy.
3Top 100 Most Influential People in IT, Part 2 – Second Life Producer
#74 Philip Rosedale – Second Life Founder and CEO of Linden Lab, producer of Second Life, a virtual world that is having a real impact on the business world.
4Top 100 Most Influential People in IT, Part 2 – Integration Advocate
#73 Debora Horvath – Washington Mutual CIO singled out in the Baseline 500 for her insistence on the importance of integration, and the ability to handle mergers and acquisitions.
5Top 100 Most Influential People in IT, Part 2 – Systems Integrator
#72 Joseph Cleveland – Lockheed Martin Longtime CIO of the nations largest defense contractor and a major systems integrator.
6Top 100 Most Influential People in IT, Part 2 – Microsoft Strategist
#71 Craig Mundie – Microsoft As chief research and strategy officer, he shares head development duties with Ray Ozzie.
7Top 100 Most Influential People in IT, Part 2 – Enterprise App Molder
#70 Charles Phillips – Oracle As president of Oracle, Charles Phillips has led the charge to remake the enterprise application market.
8Top 100 Most Influential People in IT, Part 2 – SOA Leader
#69 Alfred S. Chuang – BEA Founder, chairman, CEO and president of BEA, a leading SOA vendor.
9Top 100 Most Influential People in IT, Part 2 – Dot-com Chief
#68 Dawn G. Lepore – Drugstore.com A former CIO (Charles Schwab) who has made the jump to CEO of Drugstore.com.
10Top 100 Most Influential People in IT, Part 2 – Outsourcing/Insourcing Voice
#67 Austin Adams – JP Morgan Chase CIO is hugely influential in the outsourcing/insourcing debate.
11Top 100 Most Influential People in IT, Part 2 – AJAX Definer
#66 Jesse James Garrett – Adaptive Path Defined AJAX–Asynchronous JavaScript And XML.
12Top 100 Most Influential People in IT, Part 2 – Brazilian President
#65 Luiz In??¡cio Lula da Silva – President of Brazil Has made Brazil a focal point for broad use of open-source technologies and as a proving ground for One Laptop Per Child.
13Top 100 Most Influential People in IT, Part 2 – Father of Java
#64 James Gosling – Sun Microsystems The Father of Java, which changed the way applications for the Web were developed.
14Top 100 Most Influential People in IT, Part 2 – E-Voting Critic
#63 Avi Rubin – Johns Hopkins As director of ACCURATE (A Center for Correct, Usable, Reliable, Auditable and Transparent Elections), he has been a high-profile critic of electronic voting technology.
15Top 100 Most Influential People in IT, Part 2 – Pretty Good Privacy Creator
#62 Phil Zimmermann – PGP Creator of the e-mail encryption program Pretty Good Privacy, which outlasted the feds who sought to make it illegal.
16Top 100 Most Influential People in IT, Part 2 – Credit Card Trendsetter
#61 Gregor S. Bailar – Capital One CIO of Capital One, trendsetter for credit card industry and for using IT for competitive advantage.
17Top 100 Most Influential People in IT, Part 2 – FCC Chairman
#60 Kevin Martin – FCC Chairman of the FCC, he has served as a commissioner since 2001; just turned 40.
18Top 100 Most Influential People in IT, Part 2 – DOD Deputy
#59 Dr. Linton Wells II – U.S. Department of Defense Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Networks and Information Integration, has worked on improving field communications and computing capabilities.
19Top 100 Most Influential People in IT, Part 2 – Sun Influencer
#58 Simon Phipps – Sun Microsystems Suns chief open-source officer has been instrumental in shoving the company into its open-source future.
20Top 100 Most Influential People in IT, Part 2 – Health Care IT Pioneer
#57 John Halamka M.D., Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center As a physician turned CIO, Halamka has been a prominent pioneer in electronic medical records and other health care IT initiatives.
21Top 100 Most Influential People in IT, Part 2 – Baidu Founder
#56 Robin Li – Baidu Founded Baidu, Chinas answer to Google, courted by the tech giants.
22Top 100 Most Influential People in IT, Part 2 – Microfinance Hawker
#55 Vikram Akula – SKS Microfinance CEO and founder of the organization thats making microfinance and microcommerce a reality for millions of Indias poor.
23Top 100 Most Influential People in IT, Part 2 – Networking App Developer
#54 Charles Giancarlo – Cisco Systems Senior vice president and chief development officer, he is leading the development of a new networking applications paradigm.
24Top 100 Most Influential People in IT, Part 2 – Pre-eminent CIO
#53 Rob Carter – FedEx FedEx CIO is widely acknowledged as the best in the business.
25Top 100 Most Influential People in IT, Part 2 – Workstation Warrior
#52 Andy Bechtolsheim – Sun Microsystems Co-founder of Sun, who did most of the work toward the invention of the workstation and Gigabit Ethernet.
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