Sausage Software was an Australian
software
Software is a set of computer programs and associated documentation and data. This is in contrast to hardware, from which the system is built and which actually performs the work.
At the lowest programming level, executable code consists ...
company, founded by entrepreneur
Steve Outtrim
Steve Outtrim (born 1973) is a technology entrepreneur from New Zealand. He is best known for his success in the early " dot com years" of the Internet, as the creator of Sausage Software and its flagship product, the HotDog Web Editor. He has ...
, 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]
''ZDNet Australia'', 7 May 2001[King, 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 Reptile
[Smith, Douglas]
"Sausage Software Reptile: Create Funky Backgrounds"
''WinPlanet'', n.d.
* An early micro-payment system called the eVend Cashlet
[CobraBoy]
''eVEND'', Melbourne, Australia (Business Wire), 5 May 1997
* A Java Electronic Commerce Server (JECS), a generalized
middleware
Middleware is a type of computer software that provides services to software applications beyond those available from the operating system. It can be described as "software glue".
Middleware makes it easier for software developers to implement co ...
layer serving
Java Applets with database data on request via an
XML
Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language and file format for storing, transmitting, and reconstructing arbitrary data. It defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable. T ...
-like request/response protocol.
[Fitzsimmons, Caitlin]
"Sausage finds winning formula"
''ARN'', 16 February 2000
''System Solutions Pty Ltd'', 2007
Their website was one of the most popular at the time, receiving 250,000 hits per day in 1996.
Products
;Software
;Snaglets
;Other
* Weenies
Source:
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References
External links
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* {{webarchive , url=https://web.archive.org/web/19961020054255/http://www1.sausage.com/soft1.htm , date=20 October 1996 , title=Software
Defunct software companies of Australia