AGENDA SETTERS - WHO ARE THE DRIVING FORCES IN THE TECH INDUSTRY?

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Agenda Setters 2006
TOP 50
Marc Benioff

No. 30 Marc Benioff, CEO, Salesforce.com

Last year's position: Not placed

Why? Speaking out for software as a service

Marc Benioff makes his second appearance on the Agenda Setters list - though he missed out last year, he was number 10 in 2004. The reason is clear.

Since 1998, the outspoken Benioff has been the flagship for the software as a service movement. More than any individual since Bill Gates or Linus Torvalds he has become inextricably linked with the movement he champions.

Although he has made a major success of Salesforce.com and has shaken up the CRM old-guard, it is Benioff's role as service evangelist and engine of change which will have the greatest impact on the industry.

Web services are shaking up the IT industry, the Agenda Setters panel believes, and that's due in no small part to the Salesforce.com CEO.

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Agenda Setters Past

Take a walk down memory lane - and find out who made the Agenda Setters poll over the years:

QUOTATION

"Ray Ozzie is a radical change force for Microsoft. He is moving them in a very different direction."
--Richard Sykes, Agenda Setters panellist

"My observation is that [kids today] are far more networked and open than any other generation we have ever seen."
--Peter Cochrane, Agenda Setters panellist


AGENDA SETTERS .EXTRA

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Smart 50 - Asia's best users of IT ZDNet Asia

Chron 500 - The San Francisco Bay Area's top public companies San Francisco Chronicle

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