No. 47 Scott McNealy, chairman and CEO, Sun Microsystems
Last year's position: Not placed
Absent from last year's Agenda Setters, Scott McNealy reappears this time around not only for his work running Sun, which has seen its share of troubles in recent years but for his role as an evangelist in the greater IT industry. His vision of commoditised enterprise IT impresses one Agenda Setter panellist who nominated McNealy because: "I'm not sure I see many of the top people in IT as visionaries anymore."A tough-talking, outspoken leader, the Sun boss is not afraid to trade choice words with the likes of Bill Gates and remains one of the few old-school IT company founders who still holds the CEO spot.
Sun has made some interesting moves over the past year, not least of which is making the Solaris operating system open source.
This Silicon Valley veteran undoubtedly has a few more tricks up his sleeve.
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--Peter Rowell, Regent Associates executive chairman and Agenda Setters panellist
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