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Exclusive: Former MySQL boss Marten Mickos talks open source
Comment In an exclusive interview, former MySQL boss and silicon.com Agenda Setter, Marten Mickos talks to Tim Ferguson about the state of open source, Oracle's plans to buy Sun Microsystems and the value of working with people... [19 Nov 2009]
Green IT: Thrifty CIOs should make it a priority
News In a recent silicon.com survey, more than a quarter of respondents admitted green IT was off the agenda because of the recession. Follow-me printing, where a user has to confirm the print job at the device can reduce... [29 Oct 2009]
Niklas Zennström
AS Profile As such, he's a regular feature on the Agenda Setters list. This year the serial entrepreneur continues to be a serial Agenda Setter, landing just outside the top 10 in 11th place. As one... [08 Oct 2009]
Shai Agassi
AS Profile Like fellow Agenda Setter Elon Musk, Shai Agassi has a history of notable achievements in tech - in Agassi's case, founding start-ups and working his way up the ranks of SAP - but he got... [30 Sep 2009]
Nicholas Negroponte
AS Profile Nicholas Negroponte, the man behind the XO - the device formerly known as the $100 laptop - makes his third appearance on the Agenda Setters list. While his own agenda of bringing better education to the... [30 Sep 2009]
Elon Musk
AS Profile While there's no doubt that both PayPal and SpaceX are influential in their respective technology fields - "he is driving the agenda across a number of fronts," said one panellist - it's chiefly for his work with Tesla... [29 Sep 2009]
Matt Mullenweg
AS Profile One Agenda Setter panellist said he voted for Mullenweg for "setting the pace with kick-ass authoring platform and tools. Matt Mullenweg is the 25-year-old founder of technology start-up... [29 Sep 2009]
Evan Williams
AS Profile It's not the first time Twitter has featured in the silicon.com Agenda Setters list, its rise since last year is marked: then the three co-creators (Williams, Jack Dorsey and Biz Stone) were collectively ranked 22nd, a... [29 Sep 2009]
'Digital Britain snubbing UK businesses'
News The final report, due out this week, will set the government's digital agenda for the coming years, tackling subjects including broadband, spectrum distribution and online content. He also criticised the lack of measures... [15 Jun 2009]
Phil Pavitt
CIO Profile As he says, his aim is to move IT off the board agenda by making it smooth-running. Phil Pavitt has been appointed the next CIO of HM Revenue and Customs, one of the biggest jobs a CIO can take on in the UK, and is due... [03 Jun 2009]
The technologies that will shape corporate networks
News Cloud computing is also rising up the corporate agenda, according to Cambron - not least because the economic downturn is making businesses think twice about making big infrastructure investments. If... [14 Apr 2009]
Photos: The top tech Twitterers
Photo Plus there are a number of CTOs displaying their wisdom - including Padmasree Warrior, CTO of Cisco, and Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon - one of silicon.com's top 10 Agenda Setters for 2008. While the big-name tech CEOs... [23 Mar 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Sepa one year on
News They see this as a political agenda foisted on them from the European Commission and the European Central Bank, trying to push through an ideal of a united Europe without considering the difficulties of actually having... [16 Jan 2009]
Visa demos the credit card with its very own PIN pad
News Alzetta told silicon.com the transition from contactless payment cards to near field communication (NFC) mobile devices is also firmly on Visa's long-term agenda and to that end the company has entered into an agreement... [10 Nov 2008]
Windows 7 prebeta receives positive response
News Agenda Setters 2008 Find out who made this year's Agenda Setters list of the top technology movers and shakers. In particular, Microsoft is focused on improving the time it takes for Windows to... [29 Oct 2008]
