The 50 most powerful people in networking
Network World staff and trusted advisors voted to single out 50 individuals who control the network ball.

Power executives
Meet the lesser-known people who lead promising niche markets or those charged with executing top vendors' critical plans.

Power users
Smell that, enterprise users? It's your buying power.

Power standard-setters
Our network coaches, they help shape vendor strategy and teach vendors to play by the rules.

Power in Washington
These big-picture policy players are making decisions that will shape the products and services available to enterprise users.

Power thinkers
Venture capitalists and analysts have the power to influence an industry through their actions and their observations.

AT&T's next-in-command?
AT&T President David Dorman is ready for the challenges presented by the company's dismantling.

Cisco's development hope
Cisco's ability to shift successfully into technology development depends on how well Mario Mazzola, chief development officer, does his job.

IBM's CEO-in-waiting
After 28 years at Big Blue, Sam Palmisano, president, is poised to take over the top spot - and lead the company to the $100 billion mark.

Microsoft's .Net apostle
Eric Rudder, senior VP of developer and platform evangelism, must convert developers to .Net or Microsoft can kiss its Web services future goodbye.

Verizon's master builder
In July 2002, Verizon co-CEO Ivan Seidenberg gains sole control of the aggressive RBOC and its grand long-distance plans.

2001 CEO Powerometer:
Tussle for the top Chambers retains his No. 1 title in our annual reader survey on the most powerful vendor CEOs, but Ballmer closes in on the gap.

The powerful talk to Network World

Newsletter: Voices of Networking by the industry's best and brightest

Tell a colleague about this page