Top IT influencers list released
The top list of IT influencers was recently released.
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
The list was:
- Bill Gates, chairman and co-founder of Microsoft Corporation (84%)
- Steve Jobs, CEO and co-founder of Apple (73%)
- Michael Dell, CEO and founder of Dell (53%)
- Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux operating system and Sergey Brin and Larry Page, Google co-founders (47%)
- John Chambers, chairman and CEO of Cisco Systems (44%)
- Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle (36%)
- Vinton Cerf, who (with Bob Kahn) co-designed the TCP/IP protocol upon which the Internet is built (35%)
- Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s CEO (35%)
- Meg Whitman, president and CEO of eBay (30%)
- Craig Barrett of Intel (28%)
- Louis Gerstner Jr. of IBM (26%)
- Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com (23%)
- Scott McNealy of Sun Microsystems (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%)
- Marc Benioff of Salesforce.com (3%)
Tim Berners-Lee, the man who is known to have invented the World Wide Web, which has provided opportunity to so many came in near the bottom of the list with 1% of the vote.
This is a really interesting list, and really inspirational.
What are your thoughts on who was in the list? Anyone not there you think should have been? Looking forward to hearing your thoughts.
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