Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!newsfeed101.telia.com!starscream.dk.telia.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Mark Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: demise of sun.com Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 10:28:28 +0100 Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: <80d858l76kch632v7gdefamcecl18a646t@4ax.com> <821958dsvuebbng74ded6o3g436al8iktj@4ax.com> Reply-To: y5ojlnx02@sneakemail.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net QWk2bT+gx5TFcJCPwdnfvAdTwEUaunwU5b4wAcBXUjEhjxUzPwE0PLWPXsIt4vlWkK Cancel-Lock: sha1:pwZl5Qd59i6SmS9X77kqRzqJ0K4= X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 3.3/32.846 User-Agent: Hamster/2.1.0.11 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:18801 On Sat, 15 Sep 2012 08:27:44 -0700, Roedy Green wrote: >On Sat, 15 Sep 2012 00:54:47 -0700, Roedy Green > wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted >someone who said : > >>Oracle has dropped dozens of links on sun.com without providing >>redirects to oracle.com. I am doing my best to find replacements, but >>I suspect a fair bit of material is going to disappear. > >all these links now just go to a generic Java page: -snip- >It is a common thing for a webmaster to reorganise a website. The >catch is the links into that website then stop working. Ideally the >webmaster should set up permanent redirects from the old URL to the >new to inform everyone of where their old pages went and to keep the >old links working. However, companies such as Oracle do not do this. >They prefer to force the hundreds of websites that link into them to >individually research the links with Google to find the new ones or >delete them. Obviously the total amount of work is thousands of times >greater, but they don't care. It is not them doing the work, it is the >companies who send them business. Mindless next-quarter capitalism >demands this sort of behaviour. This is particularly annoying when you search for a problem and find a 'solution' in a forum, which is just a link to a now nonexistent web page. -- (\__/) M. (='.'=) If a man stands in a forest and no woman is around (")_(") is he still wrong?