Error 404--Not Found

Error 404--Not Found

From RFC 2068 Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1:

10.4.5 404 Not Found

The server has not found anything matching the Request-URI. No indication is given of whether the condition is temporary or permanent.

If the server does not wish to make this information available to the client, the status code 403 (Forbidden) can be used instead. The 410 (Gone) status code SHOULD be used if the server knows, through some internally configurable mechanism, that an old resource is permanently unavailable and has no forwarding address.

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Error 404--Not Found

Error 404--Not Found

From RFC 2068 Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1:

10.4.5 404 Not Found

The server has not found anything matching the Request-URI. No indication is given of whether the condition is temporary or permanent.

If the server does not wish to make this information available to the client, the status code 403 (Forbidden) can be used instead. The 410 (Gone) status code SHOULD be used if the server knows, through some internally configurable mechanism, that an old resource is permanently unavailable and has no forwarding address.








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By Denise Pappalardo Network World, 09/27/99

If all the talk about ASPs has you feeling like you've heard the same story before, you're not crazy.

Application outsourcing has been around for nearly 30 years, even if it wasn't known as such. Does the term "service bureau" ring a bell?

The decades-old service-bureau philosophy is essentially the same as today's application service provider pitch, says Julie Giera, director of research for IT services at Giga Information Group in Norwell, Mass. In the service bureau setup, business users rented applications running the gamut from rudimentary data processing to high-end proprietary payroll. Companies such as EDS and IBM hosted the applications at centralized sites for a monthly fee; access was typically via private-line connections that maxed out at 4,800 baud.

AT&T's attempt

In an early 1990s incarnation of the service-bureau model, AT&T rolled out hosted Lotus Notes and Novell NetWare services, complete with 24-7 monitoring and management. Users typically accessed the applications over a frame relay or dedicated private line.

AT&T's Notes hosting effort flopped; the service gasped its last breath in early 1996. The carrier lacked the expertise needed to provide application-focused services and did not offer broad enough access to these applications, says Liza Henderson, director of consulting at TeleChoice, a telecom consulting firm in Owasso, Okla.

Small success

Where AT&T failed, the much smaller Interliant (formerly known as WorldCom) has survived and adapted with the times. It has been offering hosted Notes service since 1994 and touts big user clients such as Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts.

Since launching its Notes service, Houston-based Interliant has expanded its business with a suite of application hosting services ranging from Prevail Pro Hosted sales automation to Instant Team Room collaboration tools.

Being a smaller carrier has worked to Interliant's advantage, Henderson says. "The large telecommunications companies were focused only on transport. Building public networks for efficiency is tremendously different than offering business users software to make their businesses run more smoothly," she says.

But market changes, including the Internet's rise, the increasing complexity of software programs and the shortage of IT expertise, have created a ripe environment for carriers and other companies entering the application hosting business.

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