Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Michael Dell Top List of IT Influencers
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Gates was named by 84% of the participants, Jobs by 73%, and Dell by 53% of CompTIA voters.
Bill Gate, Steve Jobs, and Michael Dell (Dell) rank one, two, and three in a list of the most influential people in IT over the past 25 years.
The list was compiled by the Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA), a tech trade group with 22,000 members. The poll got 473 votes, mostly from people who have worked in the tech industry for at least three years.
Gates, chairman and co-founder of Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) Corporation, was selected by 84% of the participants. Jobs, CEO and co-founder of Apple, was selected by 73% of those taking the poll. Michael Dell, CEO and founder of Dell, got the nod from 53% of CompTIA voters.
Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux operating system, made the list with 47% of the vote, tying for fourth place with Google (NSDQ: GOOG) co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Coincidentally, Google's vast server infrastructure relies on Linux.
John Chambers, chairman and CEO of Cisco Systems (NSDQ: CSCO), came in fifth (44%). Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle (NSDQ: ORCL) ranked sixth (36%). Vinton Cerf, who (with Bob Kahn) co-designed the TCP/IP protocol upon which the Internet is built, placed seventh (35%). Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's CEO, came in eighth (35%). And Meg Whitman, president and CEO of eBay, was ninth (30%).
Other people prospering in this popularity contest include Craig Barrett of Intel (NSDQ: INTC) (28%), Louis Gerstner Jr. of IBM (NYSE: IBM) (26%), Jeff Bezos of Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN).com (23%), Scott McNealy of Sun Microsystems (NSDQ: JAVA) (22%), Leonardo Chiariglione who helped create the MP3 standard among others (17%), Paul Otellini of Intel (17%), Carly Fiorina of HP (14%), Ray Ozzie of Microsoft (13%), Mark Hurd of HP (11%), Tom Anderson and Chris DeWolfe of MySpace.com (10%), Thomas Friedman of the New York Times (4%), and Marc Benioff of Salesforce.com (3%).
Tim Berners-Lee, credited with inventing of the World Wide Web, came in near the bottom of the list with 1% of the vote.
Marc Andreesen, co-creator of the Mosaic Web browser (with Eric Bina) and the co-founder of Netscape, didn't make the list. Adding insult to that omission, CompTIA voters rated Internet Explorer (66%) as most influential technology product in the past 25 years, followed by Microsoft Word (56%) and Windows 95 (50%).
Apple's iPod and Microsoft Excel tied for fourth place among products (49%).
Strangely absent from the list is anyone responsible for pushing the computer gaming envelope.
source:
informationweek.com
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Comments(3)
the rests are uncivilized
i just saw a special on a 15th centruy prophet by the name of nostradamus. its possible
that bill gates is a closet natzi, suppporting terrorists. hey, i could believe it!
microsoft is one tough company that everyone hates, for some reason they get under my
skin.
when theyve all stepped down in the near future (bill gates next year) i wonder who the
next will be to top that list.
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By ChineseMan on 08.11.2007 - 03:11