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The 50 most powerful people | listed alphabetically
Microsoft’s Kim Cameron
VMware’s Diane Greene
Bank of America’s Craig Hinkley
Red Hat’s Matthew Szulik
Cisco’s Jayshee Ullal
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The 50 most powerful people in networking, listed alphabetically

By nobody, Network World
December 26, 2005 12:05 AM ET
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Shai Agassi SAP
Steve Ballmer Microsoft
David Barnes United Parcel Service
Marc Benioff Salesforce.com
Gordon Bither State Street
Kim Cameron Microsoft
Robert Carter FedEx
John Chambers Cisco
Eva Chen Trend Micro
Alfred Chuang BEA Systems
Jeffrey Citron Vonage
Lt. Gen. Charles Croom Defense Information Systems Agency
Larry Ellison Oracle
Steve Elterich Fidelity Investment Systems
Gary Forsee Sprint Nextel
Ian Foster Univa
Bill Gates Microsoft
Charlie Giancarlo Cisco
Diane Greene VMware
Craig Hinkley Bank of America
Mark Hurd HP
Scott Kriens Juniper Networks
Kevin Martin Federal Communications Commission
John McHugh HP ProCurve Networking
Scott McNealy Sun
Steve Mills IBM
Dianah Neff city of Philadelphia
Paul Otellini Intel
Sam Palmisano IBM
John Partridge Inovant
Don Peterson Avaya
Peter Quinn commonwealth of Massachusetts
Greg Raleigh Airgo Networks
Kevin Rollins Dell
Hector Ruiz Advanced Micro Devices
George Samenuk McAfee
Eric Schmidt Google
Ivan Seidenberg Verizon
Gil Shwed Check Point
Paul Simmonds ICI
Mark Spencer Digium
John Swainson CA
Matthew Szulik Red Hat
John Thompson Symantec
Joe Tucci EMC
Jayshree Ullal Cisco
Daniel Warmenhoven Network Appliance
Fred Wettling Bechtel
Edward Whitacre the new AT&T
John Williams Auto-ID lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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