Bill Gates has the greatest impact on IT

Bill Gates received 84% of the vote, while Tim Berners-Lee, the " father " of WWW, got only 1% of the vote, ranking the bottom of the most influential people in the IT industry.

The list was created by the Computer Technology Industry Association (CompTIA). CompTIA is an industrial trade organization with 22,000 members. 473 people voted to vote on the list of the most influential IT giants, most of whom voted in the industry for at least 3 years.

Bill Gates, chairman and co-founder of Microsoft software group, received 84% of the vote. 2nd is Steve Jobs, CEO and co-founder of Apple computer company, received 73% of the votes and the third is Michael Dell, CEO and co-founder of Dell, voted by 53% of participants to quit. promissory note.

In addition to the three ' stars ', Linus Torvalds, the founder of the Linux operating system, also received 47% of the votes and ranked fourth in the rankings along with the two founders of Google search company Sergey. Brin and Larry Page. It's a coincidence that Google's largest server infrastructure is also based on Linux.

John Chambers, president and CEO of Cisco System, ranked fifth with 44% of the vote. Larry Ellison, Oracle's CEO ranked 6th with 36%. Vinton Cerf, who co-authored Bob Kahn to design the TCP / IP protocol on which the Internet was built, ranked seventh with 35% of the vote. Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO ranked 8th with 35% of the vote. Meg Whitman, eBay's President and CEO, the only woman to be in the top 10 biggest IT influencers, ranked ninth with 30% of the vote.

Other individuals on the list were 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 (17%), Intel's Paul Otellini (17%), HP's Carly Fiorina (14%), Microsoft's Ray Ozzie (13%), HP's Hurricane Mark (11%) , Tom Anderson and Chris DeWolfe of MySpace.com (10%), Thomas Friedman of The New York Times (4%), and Salesforce.com's Marc Benioff (3%).

Tim Berners-Lee, who created the World Wide Web, stood near the bottom of the table with only 1% of the vote.

Marc Andreesen, co-founder of the Mosaic web browser and co-founder of Netscape, is not on the list.

In addition, CompTIA rated Internet Explorer as the most influential technology product in 25 years with 66% of voters agree. The second most influential IT product is Microsoft Word (56%) and the third is Windows 95 (50%).

Apple's iPod music player and Microsoft Excel ranked fourth with 49% of the votes.