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.

Search and DocFinder
 
Search help/advanced search
  

Vendor Product Showcase



News NetFlash: Daily News Internat'l News This Week in NW The Edge Features Research Buyer's Guides Reviews Technology Primers Vendor Profiles Forums Columnists Knowledgebase Help Desk Dr. Intranet Gearhead Careers Free Newsletters Subscription Center Seminars/Events Reprints/Links White Papers Partner with Us Site Map Contact Us Home


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.
The 25 most powerful people in networking

Send to colleague

C. Michael Armstrong,
chairman and CEO, AT&T

C.M. ArmstrongC. Michael Armstrong is fixed on making AT&T all things networking to all people. And he spent much of 1999 proving that resolve.

With the books barely closed on AT&T's $55 billion acquisition of cable giant Tele-Communications, Inc., Armstrong early this year announced the company's intent to acquire a second cable company. The target this time: MediaOne, at a cost of $60 billion or so. With TCI and MediaOne in its fold, AT&T will be able to reach out and touch 27% of all U.S. homes with high-speed cable access.

Microsoft, for one, seems impressed. It took hardly any time at all after the wraps came off the MediaOne deal for Microsoft to invest $5 billion in the carrier behemoth. As part of the deal, overall meant to strengthen the companies' ties in broadband and Internet services, AT&T will double the number of digital set-top boxes it deploys with Microsoft's Windows CE-based operating system to five million.

Of course, Armstrong's plans go well beyond cable and its largely consumer audience to date. He wants business users to think of AT&T as a local service provider, too.

AT&T's goal for 1999 was to offer local service in at least 15 new markets, bringing the number of cities covered to 98. It got a good chunk of local-loop facilities through its 1998 purchase of Teleport Communications Group, but Armstrong earmarked $2 billion this year for additional fiber build-out. That funding was part of a $6 billion investment that would also go toward bolstering AT&T's packet-voice position and blending its two Internet backbones.

Armstrong's aggressive moves aren't without baggage. ISPs are trying to force AT&T to open access to its newly acquired high-speed cable networks, and GTE filed an antitrust lawsuit against AT&T's cable unit.

Plus, all these acquisitions and expansions are a drag on AT&T's bottom line. Despite its expensive investments in cable, AT&T is still growing less quickly than the rest of the surging telecom industry. Also, AT&T's cable honcho, Leo Hindery, left the company. His departure casts a pall over Armstrong's ambitious cable plans.

Yet the world's biggest carrier steams full speed ahead on its course to offer businesses and consumers Internet access, and merged voice and data services over a single network that reaches across the U.S. and the globe. With Armstrong at the helm, others had best leave a wide berth.

Related links

Watch the 'T' on those stock tickers
Network World, 12/13/99

AT&T update: High profile personnel shifts bolster carrier's service stature
Network World, 12/07/99

AT&T buying spree could be over
Network World, 04/27/99

AT&T is going for the cable gusto
Network World, 04/23/99


 Related links
Interactive power-o-meter
Interactive powerful people
Profiles in Power
Profiles in Power
Power Struggles
Power Sign-off
The Signature Series




  Copyright, 1995-2001 Network World, Inc. All rights reserved.