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.O’Neill, Rob: "Creative anarchy recipe of Sausage's success", Computerworld, Auckland, 19 October 1996 The product and company name have since been purchased by an Australian consulting firm, SMS Management & Technology.Lebihan, Rachel: "Sausage to raise $17million", ZDNet Australia, 7 May 2001King, Agnes: "The Sausage maker jumps from barbie to pool", ARN, 3 July 2000
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.
Sausage Software also invested in various other pioneering software strategies and products:
A range of small independent software products called "snaglets"Carton, Sean: "Hot Links and Snaglets", Wired, 28 May 1997 A unique freeware texture generator called ReptileSmith, Douglas: "Sausage Software Reptile: Create Funky Backgrounds", WinPlanet, n.d. An early micro-payment system called the eVend CashletCobraBoy: "Business Editors/Computer Writers", eVEND, Melbourne, Australia (Business Wire), 5 May 1997 A Java Electronic Commerce Server (JECS), a generalised middleware layer serving Java Applets with database data on request via an XML-like request/response protocol.Fitzsimmons, Caitlin: "Sausage finds winning formula", ARN, 16 February 2000"Clients: Sausage Software", System Solutions Pty Ltd, 2007
Their website was one of the most popular at the time, receiving 250,000 hits per day in 1996.
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Snaglets
Other Weenies
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