Sausage Software

Sausage Software

Type	Proprietary limited company[1]
Industry	Web publishing
Genre	Web development
Fate	Merged into SMS Management & Technology in 2000
Founded	Melbourne, Australia (1995)
Founder	Steve Outtrim[2]
Headquarters	Melbourne, Australia
Key people	Kevin Pownall (Chief Operating Officer)[3] Jim Paulyshyn (Marketing Director) Steve Meltzer (Marketing Director) Adrian Vanzyl (Director of software devolpment) Marty Hill (Senior Systems Engineer)
Products	HotDog Web Editor
Website	Sausage.com

Sausage Software was an Australian software company, founded by entrepreneur Steve Outtrim, which produced one of the world's most successful web editors: the HotDog web authoring tool.^[4] The product and company name have since been purchased by an Australian consulting firm, called SMS Management & Technology.^[5][6]

HotDog and the company became the 'dotcom darling' of the Australian media receiving a large amount of media exposure due to the young age of the company's founder and staff featuring pinball machines and a pool table in the company's reception area.^[4]

Sausage Software also invested in various other pioneering software strategies and products:

• A range of small independent software products called "snaglets"^[4][7]
• A unique freeware texture generator called Reptile^[8]
• An early micro-payment system called the eVend Cashlet^[9]
• A Java Electronic Commerce Server (JECS), a generalized middleware layer serving Java Applets with database data on request via an XML-like request/response protocol.^[6][10]

Their website was one of the most popular at the time, receiving 250,000 hits per day in 1996.^[11]

Products

Software

• Boomer
• HotDog
• Reptile
• SiteFx

Snaglets

• Bandwidth Buster
• Bookworm
• Broadway
• Clikette
• CrossEye
• Dummy
• Egor the Animator
• Fash
• FrameGang
• Gatling
• ImageWiz
• Jackhammer
• Mousetrap
• Swami

Other

• Weenies

Source:^{[12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17]}

References

1. "Sausage Software Copyright Information". Sausage Software. 1995. Archived from the original on 20 October 1996. Retrieved 13 April 2010.
2. "NetBloke.com - What happened to Sausage Software?". Retrieved 13 April 2010.
3. "Who's Who at Sausage Software". Sausage Software. 1995. Archived from the original on 21 December 1996. Retrieved 13 April 2010.
4. O’Neill, Rob: "Creative anarchy recipe of Sausage's success", Computerworld, Auckland, 19 October 1996
5. Lebihan, Rachel: "Sausage to raise $17million", ZDNet Australia, 7 May 2001
6. King, Agnes: "The Sausage maker jumps from barbie to pool", ARN, 3 July 2000
7. Carton, Sean: "Hot Links and Snaglets", Wired, 28 May 1997
8. Smith, Douglas: "Sausage Software Reptile: Create Funky Backgrounds", WinPlanet, n.d.
9. CobraBoy: "Business Editors/Computer Writers", eVEND, Melbourne, Australia (Business Wire), 5 May 1997
10. "Clients: Sausage Software", System Solutions Pty Ltd, 2007
11. Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia (1996). Charter. Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia. p. 29. Retrieved 19 December 2011.
12. http://web.archive.org/web/19970210150525/http://www1.sausage.com/whatsnew.htm
13. http://web.archive.org/web/19970210150945/http://www1.sausage.com/oldnews.htm
14. http://web.archive.org/web/19970210150533/http://www1.sausage.com/howorder.htm
15. http://web.archive.org/web/20040721142330/http://www.sausage.com/store/sttop/graphics/snaglet.GIF
16. http://web.archive.org/web/19961020054255/http://www1.sausage.com/soft1.htm
17. http://www.sausage.com/products.html

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