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Article #562Re: Sausage Software: the products
From: Frank G. Pitt
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 00:00
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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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 106e5e,83b94ebe2542c332 X-Google-Attributes: gid106e5e,public X-Google-Thread: 108c83,83b94ebe2542c332 X-Google-Attributes: gid108c83,public X-Google-Thread: 1083c4,83b94ebe2542c332 X-Google-Attributes: gid1083c4,public X-Google-Thread: 114a4e,83b94ebe2542c332 X-Google-Attributes: gid114a4e,public From: frankie@mundens.gen.nz (Frank G. Pitt) Subject: Re: Sausage Software: the products Date: 1998/04/28 Message-ID: <5wYR14Fv5O5S092yn@mundens.gen.nz> X-Deja-AN: 348357371 Cache-Post-Path: rachel.paradise.net.nz!unknown@d59.angela.paradise.net.nz References: <6htank$1st$1@fep5.clear.net.nz> <6i21cd$9ou$1@otis.netspace.net.au> Organization: Munden's Bar, The Pit, Cynosure X-Cache: nntpcache 2.3.2.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Reply-To: frankie@mundens.gen.nz Newsgroups: nz.comp,nz.general,aus.computers,aus.general