1 industry web publishing genre web development fate merged into sms management & technology in 2000 founded melbourne australia 1995 1995 founder steve outtrim 2 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 products hotdog web editor website sausage.com 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 called 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 generalized middleware layer serving java applets with database data on request via an xml like request response protocol . 6 10 their website was one of the most popular at the time receiving 250 000 hits per day in 1996 . 11 contents 1 history 2 products 3 references 4 external links history edit this section is empty . you can help by adding to it . july 2010 products edit software boomer hotdog reptile sitefx snaglets bandwidth buster bookworm broadway clikette crosseye dummy egor the animator fash framegang gatling imagewiz jackhammer mousetrap swami other weenies source 12 13 14 15 16 17 references edit sausage software copyright information . sausage software . 1995 . archived from the original on 20 october 1996 . retrieved 13 april 2010 . netbloke.com what happened to sausage software . retrieved 13 april 2010 . who s who at sausage software . sausage software . 1995 . archived from the original on 21 december 1996 . retrieved 13 april 2010 . a b c o neill rob creative anarchy recipe of sausage s success computerworld auckland 19 october 1996 lebihan rachel sausage to raise 17million zdnet australia 7 may 2001 a b king agnes the sausage maker jumps from barbie to pool arn 3 july 2000 cite error invalid ref tag ; 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