Sausage Software is cooking up the hottest Australian export since Foster's Lager. This Melbourne-based start-up makes short-lived Java utility apps, called snaglets, that are delivered via the Internet.
Sausage aficionados don't seem to mind the snaglets' six-month, "try before you buy" life span. Hundreds of snaglets - featuring, for example, a goofy barking dog, mad scientist, or two-eyed TV mascot - are downloaded daily from the company Web site (www.sausage.com/). Its HotDog Pro is already a standard HTML editor for Windows 95.
The company's success hasn't escaped Australian stockwatchers - its October IPO brought in more than A$2.5 million (US$1.5 million). But 23-year-old founder Steve Outtrim is staying humble. His plans? "Keep growing. Stay cool. Eventually write an operating system and rule the world with an iron fist!"
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