Internet users have hit an Australian software company with a huge wave of demand for multi-lingual versions of one of its products

Adelaide based WebGenie Software, which has sold its products in dozens of countries around the world via the Internet, was caught short by the level of demand generated by European language versions of its programs.

Within days of the company posting German and Spanish versions of its Shopping Cart program on its website-www.webgenie.com- WebGenie was inundated with requests for additional language releases.

Fast becoming WebGenie’s flagship product, Shopping Cart is a software package that enables Web-based businesses to sell their products online. WebGenie founder Dr. A. V. Sivaprasad (Siva) said the level of demand was overwhelming.

“As soon as we published a note on our website that the German and Spanish versions of our Shopping Cart program were available, we received requests from all around the world for other language versions.”

“As a result of this demand, we have produced French, Swedish, Portuguese and Norwegian versions of the products, while other languages will be available in the future.” In fact, WebGenie had sold its software products in other 32 countries before a single unit was bought in its home state of South Australia. Since then it has sold its products in over 50 countries.

The company’s best known product is CGI-Star which allows users to receive and control input from forms on pages on the Internet’s World Wide Web.

Dr. Sivaprasad said South Australia’s Playford Centre was also assisting WebGenie with marketing resources to accelerate the growth of its market share in the booming electronic commerce software area.

“It is expected that an increase in the market share will further lift WebGenie’s current growth rate of more than 15 per cent per month,” he said.