The 25 most powerful people in networking

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The 25 most powerful people in networking
Introduction

Network World, 01/04/99

If power is a trip, it can be a pretty short trip for some folks.

Only one third of the people who made our 25 most powerful list last year are back for an encore performance. The returning stars include Microsoft 's Bill Gates, Cisco 's John Chambers and 3Com 's Eric Benhamou - powerhouses who 've been on the list since we started compiling it. They are joined by two- or three-timing colleagues like AT&T 's Mike Armstrong and MCI WorldCom 's Bernie Ebbers.

This year, those powerful people are joined by the likes of Mary Meeker, Internet industry analyst par excellence, and Judy Estrin and Charlie Giancarlo - a power pair that is leading Cisco 's development and acquisition efforts. You 'll also find a professor who crams more activity and insight into a day than seems possible, the network pros who run the New York Stock Exchange and Disney networks, an electronic commerce pioneer, and a visionary who makes the industry 's powerful sit up and listen.

As usual, the 25 Most Powerful list is the byproduct of a brew of opinions from readers, analysts, staff members and other friends of Network World. Along with our write-ups of the most powerful (and their challenges for the coming year), you 'll find our assessment of 50 more people who make a difference in enterprise networking. In the margins, you 'll get a take on some of the other aspects of people power in networking.

It 's time to power up.

C. Michael Armstrong, AT&T
Craig Barrett, Intel
Bill Bautz, NYSE
Eric Benhamou, 3Com
Tim Berners-Lee, W3C
Steve Case, AOL
John Chambers, Cisco
James Crowe, Level 3
Michael Dell, Dell
John Doerr, Kleiner Perkins Caulfied & Byers
Bernard Ebbers, MCI WorldCom
Judy Estrin and Charlie Giancarlo, Cisco
David Farber, Univ. of Pennsylvania
Bill Gates, Microsoft
George Gilder, Gilder Technology Group
William Larson, Network Associates
Rich McGinn, Lucent
Mary Meeker, Morgan Stanley Dean Whitter
Joe Nacchio, Qwest
Eckhard Pfeiffer, Compaq
John Roth, Nortel
Karl Schohl, Automotive Industry Action Group
John Sidgmore, MCI WorldCom
Edward Whitacre, Jr., SBC
Paul Yanover, Walt Disney Feature Animation