Sausage Software

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. The product and company name have since been purchased by an Australian consulting firm, SMS Management & Technology.

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"
 * A unique freeware texture generator called Reptile
 * An early micro-payment system called the eVend Cashlet
 * 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.

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

Products
• Boomer
 * Software

• HotDog

• Reptile

• SiteFx

• Business in a Box • Bandwidth Buster
 * Snaglets

• Bookworm

• Broadway

• Clikette

• CrossEye

• Dummy

• Egor the Animator

• Fash

• FrameGang

• Gatling

• ImageWiz

• Jackhammer

• Lockout

• Mousetrap

• Swami
 * Other
 * Weenies

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