Steve Jobs among ‘10 most influential leaders in business technology in 2008’

Posted by Dennis Sellers Dec 15, 2008 at 9:45am

The Tech Republic lists Apple CEO Steve Jobs as among the “10 most influential leaders in business technology in 2008.” In addition to Jobs the list includes Bill Gates of Microsoft, Mark Templeton of Citrix, Safra Catz of Oracle, Eric Schmidt of Google, Marc Beniff of Salesforce.com, Anne Mulcahy of Xerox, Craig Barrett of Intel, John Chambers of Cisco and Mark Hurd of Hewlett-Packard.

About Jobs Tech Republic has this to say: “Apple and its CEO Steve Jobs have had a far larger impact on consumer computing than business systems over the past several years, but Apple made one move in 2008 that was significant enough to land Jobs on this list on its merits alone. In a software update in mid-2008, Jobs and Apple took their highly successful iPhone and connected it with Exchange ActiveSync, making it capable of enterprise-class e-mail, contacts, and calendaring. This also made the iPhone a much stronger competitor to BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, and Symbian. However, the iPhone’s meteoric ascent hasn’t hurt the big smartphone vendors – at least not yet. It has actually brought more awareness to smartphones (making it a required tool for knowledge workers) and helped expand the overall smartphone market. These aren’t just tools for executives, salespeople, financial nerds, and bureaucrats anymore.”

(And, yes, I know that’s an updated photo of Jobs. But it’s the “official” photo from Apple.)

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