Sausage Software

Sausage Software
Company typeProprietary limited company[1]
IndustryWeb publishing
GenreWeb development
FoundedMelbourne, Australia (1995 (1995))
FounderSteve Outtrim[2]
FateMerged into SMS Management & Technology in 2000
Headquarters
Melbourne
,
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)
ProductsHotDog 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.[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 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]

  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. ^ a b c 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. ^ "Clients: Sausage Software", System Solutions Pty Ltd, 2007
  12. ^ Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia (1996). Charter. Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia. p. 29.