2Top 100 Most Influential People in IT, Part 3 – Desktop Linux Working Group Head
#50 John Cherry – The Linux Foundation Head of TLFs (formerly Open Source Development Labs) Desktop Linux Working Group.
3Top 100 Most Influential People in IT, Part 3 – Telecom Voice
#49 John Dingell – U.S. House of Representatives (D-Mich.) Chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, the Michigan Democrat is rattling his saber over the AT&T/BellSouth buyout.
4Top 100 Most Influential People in IT, Part 3 – Google Executive
#48 Douglas Merrill – Google Vice president of engineering, he is effectively the organizations CIO.
5Top 100 Most Influential People in IT, Part 3 – IBM Evangelist
#47 Irving Wladawsky-Berger – IBM IBMs vice president of technical strategy and innovation and leading emerging technology evangelist for the company.
6Top 100 Most Influential People in IT, Part 3 – Globalization Pioneer
#46 Tom Friedman – New York Times Author of The World Is Flat, he kick-started the conversation on globalization and the role of IT.
7Top 100 Most Influential People in IT, Part 3 – Direct Sales Proponent
#45 Michael Dell – Dell From dorm-room PC builder to definer of the practice of direct sales of products built in quantity.
8Top 100 Most Influential People in IT, Part 3 – Net Mall Architect
#44 Jeff Bezos – Amazon He built the Internets most important shopping mall and has advanced the state-of-the-art in shopper preference analysis and personalization.
9Top 100 Most Influential People in IT, Part 3 – Innovative CIO
#43 Dave Barnes – UPS Senior vice president and CIO is a real innovator and highly visible.
10Top 100 Most Influential People in IT, Part 3 – Software Overseer
#42 Steve Mills – IBM Oversees all of IBMs software efforts.
11Top 100 Most Influential People in IT, Part 3 – IT Metrics Proponent
#41 Randy Mott – Hewlett-Packard Executive vice president and CIO oversees an enormous IT consolidation effort; previously CIO at Wal-Mart and Dell; big proponent of IT metrics.
12Top 100 Most Influential People in IT, Part 3 – Cryptography Expert
#40 Bruce Schneier – BT Counterpane A leading expert on applied cryptography who had a revelation that crypto was not enough; voice for common sense in security policy.
13Top 100 Most Influential People in IT, Part 3 – Chip/Server Innovator
#39 Greg Papadopoulos – Sun Microsystems CTO of Sun for innovative processors and server designs.
14Top 100 Most Influential People in IT, Part 3 – Security/Privacy Booster
#38 Edward Felten – Princeton University Professor of Computer Science and Public Affairs; works at what he calls the interface of computer security and privacy, and technology policy.
15Top 100 Most Influential People in IT, Part 3 – Security Voice
#37 Alan Paller – SANS Institute Director of research and a major voice in computer security.
16Top 100 Most Influential People in IT, Part 3 – Vulnerability Researcher
#36 H.D. Moore – BreakingPoint Systems; Metasploit Director of security research at BreakingPoint; hes rewriting the rules on flaw disclosure and leading research into new classes of vulnerabilities.
17Top 100 Most Influential People in IT, Part 3 – Social Networking Perfecters
#35 Chris DeWolfe and Tom Anderson – MySpace Maybe they didnt invent social networking, but they perfected it with MySpace, which now has more than 150 million users.
18Top 100 Most Influential People in IT, Part 3 – Apache Founder
#34 Brian Behlendorf – Apache One of the founders of the Apache Group, creator of the Webs most popular and durable Web server software.
19Top 100 Most Influential People in IT, Part 3 – Ubuntu Chief
#33 Mark Shuttleworth – Ubuntu Head of Ubuntu, which has quickly become one of the best and most popular Linux distros out today. He has also forced other Linux vendors to rethink how they operate.
20Top 100 Most Influential People in IT, Part 3 – DOD IT Head
#32 John G. Grimes – U.S. Department of Defense CIO of the DOD; besides heading the massive and important IT organization, he is driving the DODs net-centricity IT doctrine.
21Top 100 Most Influential People in IT, Part 3 – Treo Inventor
#31 Jeff Hawkins, Numenta Founder of Palm and inventor of the Treo; now researching the connection between neuroscience and computing with Numenta and the Redwood Neuroscience Institute.
22Top 100 Most Influential People in IT, Part 3 – Copyright Reform Fighter
#30 Lawrence Lessig – Stanford University Law professor and author is the most vocal proponent of copyright and trademark reform; was Special Master in the U.S. v. Microsoft case; challenged copyright law before the Supreme Court, and
23Top 100 Most Influential People in IT, Part 3 – Venture Capitalist
#29 John Doerr – Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers One of the most high-powered venture capitalists; helped fund Netscape, Sun, Google, Amazon and others.
24Top 100 Most Influential People in IT, Part 3 – Online Research Transformer
#28 Jimmy Wales – Wikipedia Revolutionized online research as founder of the Web-based encyclopedia, which has become the de facto information resource on the Internet.
25Top 100 Most Influential People in IT, Part 3 – Intel Adversary
#27 Phil Hester – Advanced Micro Devices Senior vice president and CTO, whose innovative processor designs helped overturn Intels dominance.
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