Sandia National Laboratories has harnessed the power of the World Wide Web inside the laboratory to increase employee productivity and reduce computing expenses. Based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Sandia Labs manages research programs focused on national security, energy, and the environment for the Department of Energy. Sandia employs about 8,500 people at laboratories in New Mexico and northern California and at test facilities in Nevada and Hawaii.
Every major department has a home page on the web.
In addition, corporate applications are loaded into HTML from SQL and other UNIX applications. We've had a fantastic response. Six months ago, we had 800 users, now we have 5,400 users connected to our internal web. We're adding about 250 users a week. The web will soon be the preferred method for finding information in our organization.