The 25 most powerful people in networking - ERIC BENHAMOU CEO, 3COM, 01/04/99

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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.

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.

The 25 most powerful people in networking

Network World, 01/04/99

ERIC BENHAMOU CEO, 3COM

Eric Benhamou has made the 25 Most Powerful list since we started publishing it four years ago. But this year his place in the pantheon of network heroes was called into question by many of the industry insiders we ask for insights and advice. Cisco continues to expand its dominance of the large enterprise even while it pushes hard into the carrier space, where 3Com isn't much of a factor. Carrier equipment giants Lucent and Nortel Networks have set their sights on the enterprise space and that won't make life any easier for Benhamou and company.

But consider that 3Com is the Microsoft of desktop networking, thanks to its continued dominance in Ethernet network interface cards (NIC). Though Intel irritates by continually dropping prices, 3Com is the feature leader that keeps devising new and innovative ways to leverage NICs to deliver quality of service (QoS) and policy networking to the desktop.

And if Cisco's attention to the enterprise is diverted by its attempts to take on Lucent and Nortel in the service provider market, 3Com is in a good position to recover ground as Cabletron struggles to get back on the growth track and Bay is being digested by Nortel.

3Com has a growing array of desktop, workgroup, wiring closet and backbone switches, and it surprised Wall Street by beating earnings estimates in the usually slow summer quarter.

BENHAMOU'S CHALLENGE: The chief challenge for Benhamou and 3Com will be keeping the momentum going while addressing new markets, such as IP telephony services. In those markets, 3Com will go up against telephony giants, such as Lucent and Nortel, in addition to its traditional internetworking rivals like Cisco and Cabletron.

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