Ray Ozzie Takes Top Position with Silicon.com
For leading Microsoft into the post-Bill Gates era, Ray Ozzie, chief software architect at the software giant, has been named silicon.com's number 1 Agenda Setter for 2006.
Ozzie is the first ever winner from Microsoft - the closest Bill Gates came was a number 2 spot in 2003. This is the first year neither Bill Gates nor Steve Ballmer appear in the Agenda Setters top 50, signalling a changing of the guard at Redmond and in the tech industry as founders of tech stalwarts hand over the reigns of their companies.
Along with Gates stepping aside, Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz (number 46) debuted on the list instead of Sun chairman and founder Scott McNealy; and Dell CEO Kevin Rollins (number 45) takes the spot of Dell founder Michael Dell. http://www.silicon.com/cxoextra/0,3800005416,39162714,00.htm News Corp chief Rupert Murdoch came in fourth -- buying MySpace seems a brilliant move on his part.
