Sausage Software

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Sausage Software
Type Proprietary limited company [1]
Industry Web publishing
Genre Web development
Founded Melbourne, Australia (1995 (1995))
Founder Steve Outtrim [2]
FateMerged into SMS Management & Technology in 2000
Headquarters,
Key people
Kevin Pownall (Chief Operating Officer) [3]

Jim Paulyshyn (Marketing Director)
Steve Meltzer (Marketing Director)
Adrian Vanzyl (Director of software development)

Marty Hill

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(Senior Systems Engineer)
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. [4]

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

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

Products

Software
Snaglets
Other

Source: [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19]

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