Sausage Software Explained

Sausage Software
Type:	Proprietary limited company^[1]
Genre:	Web development
Fate:	Merged into SMS Management & Technology in 2000
Foundation:	Melbourne, Australia
Founder:	Steve Outtrim^[2]
Location City:	Melbourne
Location Country:	Australia
Key People:	Kevin Pownall (Chief Operating Officer)^[3] Jim Paulyshyn (Marketing Director) Steve Meltzer (Marketing Director) Adrian Vanzyl (Director of software development) Marty Hill (Senior Systems Engineer)
Industry:	Web publishing
Products:	HotDog Web Editor

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, 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.

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

• A range of small independent software products called "snaglets"^[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 generalised middleware layer serving Java Applets with database data on request via an XML-like request/response protocol.^{[10] [11]}

Their website was one of the most popular at the time, receiving 250,000 hits per day in 1996.^[12]

Products

Software

Snaglets

Other

• Weenies

Source:^{[13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19]}

References

1. Web site: Sausage Software Copyright Information. 1995. Sausage Software. 13 April 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/19961020024455/http://www1.sausage.com/copyrite.htm. 20 October 1996.
2. Web site: NetBloke.com - What happened to Sausage Software?. 13 April 2010.
3. Web site: Who's Who at Sausage Software. 1995. Sausage Software. 13 April 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/19961221190118/http://www.sausage.com/who.htm. 21 December 1996.
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. Fitzsimmons, Caitlin: "Sausage finds winning formula", ARN, 16 February 2000
11. http://sysol.com.au/clients.html "Clients: Sausage Software"
12. Book: Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia. Charter. 1996. Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia. 29.
13. Web site: What's New at Sausage Software . 2010-04-15 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/19970210150525/http://www1.sausage.com/whatsnew.htm . 10 February 1997.
14. Web site: Older News at Sausage Software . 2010-04-15 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/19970210150945/http://www1.sausage.com/oldnews.htm . 10 February 1997.
15. Web site: How To Purchase Sausage Software Products . 2010-04-14 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/19970210150533/http://www1.sausage.com/howorder.htm . 10 February 1997.
16. Web site: HotDog Web Editors - HotDog Professional, HotDog PageWiz, HotDog Junior, FlashPoint, RSS News Readers, and SuperToolz - Created by Sausage Software . 2013-10-02 . bot: unknown . https://web.archive.org/web/20040721142330/http://www.sausage.com/store/sttop/graphics/snaglet.GIF . 21 July 2004.
17. Web site: Software We Make . 2011-09-09 . bot: unknown . https://web.archive.org/web/19961020054255/http://www1.sausage.com/soft1.htm . 20 October 1996.
18. Web site: HotDog Web Editors - HotDog Professional, HotDog PageWiz, HotDog Junior, FlashPoint, RSS News Readers, and SuperToolz - Created by Sausage Software . 2 October 2013 . 5 October 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131005112233/http://www.sausage.com/products.html . dead .
19. Web site: Historical details for ABN 82 070 415 842 ABN Lookup . www.abr.business.gov.au . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20190618062915/http://www.abr.business.gov.au/AbnHistory/View/82070415842 . 2019-06-18.