Sausage Software
| Company type | Proprietary limited company[1] |
|---|---|
| Industry | Web publishing |
| Genre | Web development |
| Founded | Melbourne, Australia (1995) |
| Founder | Steve Outtrim[2] |
| Fate | Merged into SMS Management & Technology in 2000 |
| Headquarters | , |
Key people | Kevin Pownall (Chief Operating Officer)[3] Jim Paulyshyn (Marketing Director) |
| 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]
History
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Products
- Software
- Snaglets
- Other
Source:[12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17]
References
- ^ "Sausage Software Copyright Information". Sausage Software. 1995. Archived from the original on 20 October 1996. Retrieved 13 April 2010.
- ^ "NetBloke.com - What happened to Sausage Software?". Retrieved 13 April 2010.
- ^ "Who's Who at Sausage Software". Sausage Software. 1995. Archived from the original on 21 December 1996. Retrieved 13 April 2010.
- ^ a b c O’Neill, Rob: "Creative anarchy recipe of Sausage's success", Computerworld, Auckland, 19 October 1996
- ^ Lebihan, Rachel: "Sausage to raise $17million", ZDNet Australia, 7 May 2001
- ^ a b King, Agnes: "The Sausage maker jumps from barbie to pool", ARN, 3 July 2000 Cite error: The named reference "arnnet" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
- ^ Carton, Sean: "Hot Links and Snaglets", Wired, 28 May 1997
- ^ Smith, Douglas: "Sausage Software Reptile: Create Funky Backgrounds", WinPlanet, n.d.
- ^ CobraBoy: "Business Editors/Computer Writers", eVEND, Melbourne, Australia (Business Wire), 5 May 1997
- ^ "Clients: Sausage Software", System Solutions Pty Ltd, 2007
- ^ Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia (1996). Charter. Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia. p. 29. Retrieved 19 December 2011.
- ^ Archived February 10, 1997, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Archived February 10, 1997, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Archived February 10, 1997, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Archived July 21, 2004, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Archived October 20, 1996, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ http://www.sausage.com/products.html
External links
- About at the Wayback Machine (archived October 20, 1996)
- Software at the Wayback Machine (archived October 20, 1996)