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Steve Jobs, Larry Page, Eric Schmidt, Sergei Brin and Bill Gates, to name a few, have now been lined up in Fortune Magazine’s list of 25 most powerful people in business.

Surprisingly Steve Jobs is ranked 1st but given the five industries that Jobs has upended - computers, Hollywood, music, retailing, and wireless phones - it is a spot well-earned:

1. Steve Jobs
   ^{Chairman and CEO, Apple}
2. Rupert Murdoch
   ^{Chairman and CEO, News Corp.}
3. Lloyd Blankfein
   ^{Chairman and CEO, Goldman Sachs}
4. Eric Schmidt, Larry Page, and Sergei Brin
   ^{CEO; President, Products; President, Technology; Google}
5. Warren Buffett
   ^{Chairman and CEO, Berkshire Hathaway}
6. Rex Tillerson
   ^{Chairman and CEO, Exxon Mobil}
7. Bill Gates
   ^{Founder, chairman of Microsoft; founder and co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation}
8. Jeff Immelt
   ^{Chairman and CEO, GE}
9. Katsuaki Watanabe
   ^{President, Toyota}
10. A.G. Lafley
    ^{Chairman and CEO, Procter & Gamble}
11. John Chambers
    ^{Chairman and CEO, Cisco}
12. Li Ka-shing
    ^{Chairman, Cheung Kong Holdings and Hutchison Whampoa}
13. Lee Scott
    ^{CEO, Wal-Mart}
14. Lakshmi Mittal
15. Jamie Dimon
    ^{Chairman and CEO, JP Morgan Chase}
16. Mark Hurd
    ^{Chairman and CEO, Hewlett-Packard}
17. James McNerney
    ^{Chairman and CEO, Boeing}
18. Marius Kloppers
    ^{CEO, BHP Billiton}
19. Steve Schwarzman
    ^{CEO, Blackstone}
20. Carlos Slim
    ^{Chair, TelMex and Carso Foundation}
21. Steve Feinberg
    ^{CEO, Cerberus}
22. Indra Nooyi
    ^{Chairman and CEO, PepsiCo}
23. Ratan Tata
    ^{Chairman, Tata Group}
24. Bob Iger
    ^{CEO, Walt Disney}
25. Bernard Arnault
    ^{Chairman and CEO, LVMH}

There are 7 persons in that list involved in IT with Google guys and Steve Jobs being ahead of already highly awarded Bill Gates.

It seems like nothing has changed about Jobs and Gates going head-to-head in the field of computers. For those of you not really understanding what’s behind the head-to-head thing here’s a film about the history of Apple and Microsoft — Pirates of Silicon Valley: