Power rating
Network World, 1/4/99
We asked 250 Network World readers to rate the companies and CEOs on a power scale of one to 100, with 100 being the most powerful. The Power Rating is the mean of all
reader responses.
Hyperlinked names bring you to more information about the company or executive.
Most powerful companies
Power '98 Gain/ '98
Rating Rating Loss Ranking
1. Microsoft 80.5 82.5 -2.0 1
2. Cisco 75.2 74.8 +0.4 3
3. Intel 73.9 77.9 -4.0 2
4. 3Com 67.7 69.1 -1.4 6
5. AT&T 66.8 65.3 +1.5 9
6. IBM 66.4 64.9 +1.5 11
6. Lucent 66.4 64.0 +2.4 12
8. MCI WorldCom* 65.4 60.8/ +4.6/ 15/
56.2 +9.2 20
9. Sun 63.2 69.9 -6.7 5
10. Novell 62.8 65 -2.2 10
11. Hewlett-
Packard 62.6 67 -4.4 7
12. Oracle 62.0 66.1 -4.1 8
13. Compaq 61.5 63.7 -2.2 13
13. Netscape 61.5 72.6 -11.1 4
15. Sprint 57.0 57.9 -0.9 16
16. Bell
Atlantic 56.3 56.8 -0.5 19
17. Nortel 55.6 50.8 +4.8 24
18. BellSouth 54.9 NA NA NA
19. Network
Associates 54.1 NA NA NA
20. GTE 53.3 54.9 -1.6 21
20. Computer
Associates 53.3 57.0 -3.7 18
22. Cabletron 52.0 53.8 -1.8 22
23. SBC 51.2 48.3 +2.9 25
24. Ascend 50.8 52.6 -1.8 23
25. US WEST 47.8 NA NA NA
26. Newbridge 44.4 36.5 +7.9 26
* MCI and WorldCom were listed as separate companies in 98. The numbers
for 1998 represent MCI's and WorldCom's scores, respectively.
Most Powerful CEOs
Power '98 Gain/ '98
Rating Rating Loss Ranking
1. Bill Gates/
Microsoft 79.5 84.1 -4.6 1
2. John Chambers/
Cisco 69.9 64.3 +5.6 5
3. Craig Barrett*/
Intel 65.2 NA NA NA
4. Lou Gerstner/
IBM 64.4 59.3 +5.1 7
5. Mike Armstrong*/
AT&T 62.4 NA NA NA
6. Rich McGinn*/
Lucent 61.5 NA NA NA
7. Scott McNealy/
Sun 61.1 65.1 -4.0 4
8. Larry Ellison/
Oracle 61.0 61.4 -0.4 6
9. Eric Benhamou/
3Com 60.7 58.3 +2.4 9
10. Eric Schmidt/
Novell 60.4 59.0 +1.4 8
11. Eckhard Pfeiffer/
Compaq 59.3 57.3 +2.0 10
12. Lew Platt/
H-P 59.0 56.6 +2.4 12
13. Jim Barksdale/
Netscape 58.9 66.1 -7.2 3
14. Bernie Ebbers/
MCI WorldCom 57.5 51.4 +6.1 16
15. Bill Esrey/
Sprint 52.2 46.1 +6.1 21
16. Charles Wang/
Computer Assoc. 52.1 54.0 -1.9 14
17. Duane Ackerman/
BellSouth** 51.0 NA NA NA
18. Ivan Seidenberg*/
Bell Atlantic 50.9 NA NA NA
19. John Roth*/
Nortel 50.7 NA NA NA
20. Craig Benson*/
Cabletron 49.2 NA NA NA
20. Charles Lee/
GTE 49.2 49.4 -0.2 20
22. Bill Larson/
Network Assoc.** 48.7 NA NA NA
23. Mory Ejabat/
Ascend 48.0 46.8 +1.2 25
24. Ed Whitacre/
SBC 46.3 45 +1.3 22
25. Sol Trujillo/
US WEST** 42.5 NA NA NA
26. Terry Matthews/
Newbridge 41.9 30.8 +11.1 26
* Was not CEO when the '98 survey was conducted.
** Company not surveyed last year.
Winners:
The top three power slots remain firmly in the hands of Microsoft,
Cisco and Intel, though Cisco moved into the No. 2 position over Intel.
The big winner: MCI WorldCom. The combined company moved up to No. 8 on
the chart, where MCI and WorldCom alone were 15 and 20, respectively,
last year.
Nortel moved up seven slots to No. 17, but Lucent, oft-mentioned in the
same breath as Nortel, scored higher despite Nortel's big ticket
acquisition of Bay Networks. Lucent, up from the 12th slot last year,
tied with IBM at No. 6. IBM was ranked 11th last year.
3Com moves up two slots to No. 4, while AT&T, with revitalized
leadership, moves up four spaces to No. 5.
Bill Gates holds on to No. 1, despite a decline in his Power Rating.
But the big winners here were Sprint's CEO Bill Esrey, who move up a
strong six slots to No. 15, and Cisco's John Chambers, who took over the
No. 2 slot on the strength of a 3-slot jump.
Maybe it's all the talk about electronic commerce over at IBM, but
whatever the reason, CEO Lou Gerstner jumped up three places to take over
the No. 4 ranking.
New CEOs Craig Barrett (No. 3) of Intel, AT&T's Mike Armstrong (No. 5)
and Lucent's Rich McGinn (No. 6) all scored nicely - particularly
Armstrong who showed up six slots higher than his predecessor Bob Allen
last year.
Losers:
The big loser in this year's Power Chart is clearly Netscape, which
plummeted from 4th place last year to unlucky No. 13.
Sun came close to getting knocked out of this year's top 10, falling
four spaces to No. 9 on the power hit list.
1998 wasn't so hot for Hewlett-Packard or Oracle either, as readers
knocked both companies down four pegs from last year.
The Big Loser here is Netscape CEO Jim Barksdale, who dropped a
whopping 10 slots to No. 13. Tough year for Barksdale and his employer.
Barksdale can take some comfort in knowing he wasn't alone in shedding
some of the perception of power. Sun's McNealy dropped from No. 4 to No.
7, while Oracle's Larry Ellison and Computer Associates' Charles Wang
dropped a couple slots as well.
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