Wozniak 42nd?

BABBAGE 39th! (Crazy)

Gates 32nd? (Disrespectful, regardless of your views of MS)

Baird 26th?

Jobs 14th? (Oh come on, more influencial than the man with 92% market share of OS?)

TURING 7th? (Cripes, there wouldn't be I.T. without him, Baird and Babbage)

and then the bizzarest of all:

2nd & 3rd Go to the Google boys! How so? The IT world wouldn't be vastly different without Google, because Yahoo would still be up there.

I will give them Berners-Lee although 1st???? Where is Sanders by the way guys????

Those Intel guys want to stick to making CPU's! (Moore in 6th place....slurp)

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Without Babbage and Turing then the microproccesor wouldn't even exist and therefore IT wouldn't really exist either. That surely cannot be underestimated?

As Jason says, Woz was the technical brains behind Apple and a clever marketeer shouldn't rank so much higher than the I.T. technical genius that enabled the company to manufacture in the first place.

Bill Gates is certainly a clever marketeer too, but crikey, if anyone could change the whole I.T. industry, he could. Take for example - if Bill Gates decided to (and this is a bit farfetched, but run with it for a second) stop Windows connecting to the internet - then he could. Pretty easily too, as he could issue a Windows Update to 92% of the worlds PC's tomorrow. The results of that would be on a par with domesday in the current era. Now that is power Berners-Lee could only of dreamt about. Who else could effectively shut down the internet and perhaps the whole world economy overnight? That is fairly substantial I.T. influence in my book.

Yogi has to rank higher too. Come on, the bloke virtually invented modern media and I.T. is now built on advertising and commerce.

I don't know who Intel are trying to impress at Google or why, but I couldn't disagree more with that ranking. It's bordering on pathetic in my book. Google is a search engine with various clever apps that people like, but at the end of the day, it is a typical 'dot-com' business. As fast as it has risen to fame, it could slide back down again should someone decide to put up a serious challenge. (Yahoo and Microsoft spring to mind) I honestly feel if Google ceased trading tomorrow, I wouldn't be effected in any serious way. If Apple or Microsoft went down, then I guess we would all feel it in some way or another. (Assuming you have an iPod?)

I think it would be interesting to see who the MM readers see as their Top 45, as I bet it differs substantially from the Intel ranking, although I assume the very same names will come up.

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