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Re: Sausage Software: the products

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From: Frank G. Pitt
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 00:00
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In article <6i21cd$9ou$1@otis.netspace.net.au>,
nguyen@netspace.net.au (Jim Nguyen) wrote:
>Steve Bell (s.bell@iecho.co.nz) wrote:
>: I am writing an article on the rise and fall (and rise again?) of
>: Sausage Software.
>
>Doubt it. Even with HDPro4, Sausage can't compete with FrontPage and 
>Microvision WebExpress for ease of use and on the fly WYSIWYG editing. 
>WebExpress takes half the time it took to create pages on HotDog.
>Nobody has time to bother with html editing anymore. It's purely for 
>freaks who have lots of time to waste.
>
>Sausage is just a short term grab for cash. Evident in that the whole 
>company's existence depended on one product. Now that they have flogged it 
>to death it's probably time to close shop.

Frankly, I don't know anyone who actually used it.
I had a look for patriotic reasons, and found it worse than
the add-on to Word 6, what was it, "Word Internet Assistant"

>One hit wonder that will end
>pretty soon with competition from Homesite, WebExpress,
>Frontpage and Coffee Cup etc. 

Personally I like Net Objects Fusion better those,

Anyway, didn't they sell out to Microsoft ?

Frankie
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From: frankie@mundens.gen.nz (Frank G. Pitt)
Subject: Re: Sausage Software: the products
Date: 1998/04/28
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