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.







  

By JULIE BORT AND JIM DUFFY
Network World, 12/25/00

Software superheroes
  • Steve Ballmer
  • Larry Ellison
  • Bill Gates
  • Lou Gerstner
  • Thomas Penfield Jackson
  • Scott McNealy
  • Eric Raymond

    Steve Ballmer
    President and CEO, Microsoft

    No one will ever accuse Steve Ballmer of mincing words. The outspoken Microsoft CEO confidently - while perhaps wrongly - predicted that Microsoft would emerge intact following the Department of Justice's ruling on whether the company abused its operating system market position to snuff out competition.

    Not shy about defending Microsoft's software pricing and licensing practices, Ballmer insists the company will not alter its modus operandi regardless of federal antitrust findings. He also lambastes industry executives, such as Sun CEO Scott McNealy, when they trivialize the role of software in computing and networking.

    Software, Ballmer says, is the industry's future. Would you expect anything less bullish from a multibillionaire honcho at the world's largest software company who grew up in Detroit, among the blue-collar environs of Ford Motor Co.?

    Ballmer's passion and leadership have become hallmarks of his tenure at Microsoft, and his energetic discipline and spirit have been infectious, Microsoft says. That's good, because spunk will be needed as Microsoft embarks on its most comprehensive reinvention in the company's 25 years. Ballmer will help lead Microsoft's ambitious development of .Net, a distributed computing architecture that puts a unified face on a variety of digital devices.

    His enthusiasm, passion and outspoken determination add up to powerful ingredients that will be vital if Microsoft is to succeed in this reinvention.

    Larry Ellison
    Chairman and CEO, Oracle

    No matter how you define power, Larry Ellison's got it. He's rich, famous and successful. Is he also flamboyant? Sure. Egotistical? You bet. But Oracle remains a model of how a technology company should prosper in any economy, new or old; it's making money and lots of it.

    Oracles owns more than 40% of the database market, and its revenue and profits grow heavily quarter after quarter, year after year. Sure, the recent departures of two of Oracle's brightest management stars, Ray Lane and Gary Bloom, is evidence of Ellison the tyrant. But when push comes to shove, Oracle isn't just the database of the Internet, it's the right ventricle of e-commerce. This after being the left ventricle of client/server computing.

    Ellison founded Oracle and controls its every move. The credit is his.

    Bill Gates
    Chairman and chief software architect, Microsoft

    As Microsoft's "new" software architect, Bill Gates is now focused on technical strategy rather than day-to-day operations. All eyes are on Redmond to see if Gates still has what it takes to finesse a major technical revolution. Certainly, that's what he's hoping to do with his new .Net architecture.

    Lou Gerstner
    Chairman and CEO, IBM

    Lou Gerstner's attempts to remake the world's largest computer company into an Internet powerhouse appear to be paying off. Pundits herald IBM's e-business initiatives, and competitors attempt to emulate them.

    Thomas Penfield Jackson
    U.S. District Judge,
    U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

    Granted, Microsoft might not consider Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson a hero, but the rest of the software industry just might. One thing's for sure - he's the only person who scares Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates more than Sun CEO Scott McNealy. His decision on how to punish Microsoft for its antitrust activities will have historic and far-reaching implications for the industry.

    Scott McNealy
    Chairman and CEO, Sun

    Scott McNealy's outspoken vision and focus are two reasons why Sun is considered one of the few major threats to Microsoft's software dominance. In hardware, Sun servers are the de facto standard for Internet Web hosting. Sun's two-pronged success is a textbook execution of McNealy's strategy and understanding of the software and hardware industries.

    Eric Raymond
    President, Open Source Initiative

    Eric Raymond is an almost unwilling member of the networking power elite. A quintessential Unix techie with a huge sense of humor and a black belt in tae kwon do, he considers himself an anthropologist of the Internet hacker culture - hacker, of course, in its politically correct, disinfected definition, meaning those who are good at programming.

    His voluminous writings on the topic bear that out. He's published the hilarious New Hacker's Dictionary and The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary. The latter is an essay collection outlining his theory on open source code. It includes the famous essay that inspired Netscape to make its browser open source. In a nutshell, the theory is that open source software is better for the Internet because it puts the power of interconnected minds to work. That is, when developers are allowed to toy with code, they do.

    For Raymond, open source software remains more of a philosophy than a business strategy, although he is now a director of for-profit open source poster child VA Linux. Nevertheless, he says Linux evangelism is a full-time job, and he renders most of his speaking engagements for free.

    He's known for exposing open source hypocrisy at vendor companies, particularly Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard. A sharp letter by him to HP's CEO Carly Fiorina, penned in October, is credited for HP's beefed-up Linux efforts. The Open Source Initiative is another of his evangelism platforms. It serves as a clearinghouse of Linux information, code and open source business theory. As a leader of this grass-roots movement, Raymond's power reverberations have been felt throughout 2000, as heavy hitters such as IBM and Sun began supporting Linux on their servers.

    Although he's an inspiring spokesman, that shouldn't minimize Raymond's technical accomplishments, which include a rewrite of the Usenet netnews software and volumes of open source software. He remains a programmer at heart.

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