What Is Silicon Junction?

Silicon Junction is the primary on-line information application for SGI employees. It contains a wealth of news and information tailored to the needs of the world-wide SGI community. Silicon Junction is accessed through the Netscape web browser or through Mosaic.

Silicon Junction is a global information system available to all SGI employees and contractors, regardless of where they're located. All of SGI's work force can be brought closer together through the power and speed of the Internet. This helps us know what's going on in the engineering group across the hall or the sales team across the ocean.

Silicon Junction is a corporate newspaper. It delivers news about SGI events and products much faster than printed media. Whether it's a visit from Michael Jackson or Steven Spielberg, or the introduction of the fastest graphics system in the world, chances are you'll read about it first in Silicon Junction.

Silicon Junction is a gateway to the World Wide Web. It contains hyperlinks (sections of text on a web page that envoke other web pages when clicked on) that point to some of the most interesting sites on the Internet. You can access today's news in the Wall St. Journal or see what classes are offered by the English Department at U.C. Berkeley.

Silicon Junction is a productivity tool. You can use it to find the phone numbers of employees at remote locations or request a new light for your office.

Silicon Junction is not available to the outside world or to casual surfers on the Internet. A special network router called the "firewall" prevents people who aren't part of the SGI network from viewing web pages on Silicon Junction. SGI uses a separate web system called Silicon Surf to promote our products and culture to the rest of the Internet. 







Publication Guidelines






Before reading much further please take a look at How to Publish 
Material on Silicon Junction - FAQ. 





Submitting Headlines



Requests to post headlines on the Junction home page should be sent to the 
Webmaster. We reserve the right to select which headlines actually get 
posted and to determine how long they stay there. 


Please give us as much lead time as possible (2 - 3 days). Documents in 
any format other than HTML will require an additional day to be 
converted. 


All documents should have a revision date and contact person listed at 
the bottom of each page. There should be a working email address using 
the "mailto:" HREF next to the name of the contact person. 





Adding New Home Pages



Requests to add new Division or Field Home Pages to either the Internal 
SGI Sites or the External Web Sites sections should be sent to the 
Webmaster. We request that Home Pages linked to from Silicon Junction 
have a Return To Junction button at the bottom of the page. 


New web sites that may be of interest to the general SGI community may 
be highlighted on the Junction Home Page for 2 or 3 days in order to 
bring this site to the attention of those people who might benefit from 
it. 


Requests concerning personal Home Pages should be sent to the webmaster
 of the Reality system.


Junction Style Guide



A complete style guide which specifies the layout and design of new web 
pages for Silicon Junction 2.0 is available on-line. This guide does 
not apply to headline articles or web pages on systems other than 
www.corp. 







Silicon Junction Mission Statement



Our goal is to make Silicon Junction the best corporate web system on the planet.


We will use emerging web-based technology to do the following: 











Usage Stats






This page lists usage statistics for the 
primary Silicon Junction web server, www.corp. 





This page shows what type of browsers are 
being used to access Silicon Junction. 










Revised July 29, 1996. Send suggestions to (Webmaster Name)