Who's the best boxer of all time? Ali or Joe Lewis?
Who's the most influential rock band? The Beatles or Bill Haley and the Comets?
What was the most usable 8-bit personal computer ever made? The Commodore 64 or the Apple IIe?

Where does it stop? As far as IT tools go, how about XTreePro? The development of USB? SpinRite? DSL? (or maybe ISDN?) Electric screwdrivers? UTP?

I think CIO Magazine needs to get a grip on itself and start devoting space to items that are of substantive benefit to the IT community.