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Subject: Sure FIRM is lost, but really, who cares
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On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 14:39:53 -0400, "Michael P. Card"
<michael.p.card@lmco.com> wrote:


>The easiest answer (IMO) would be for the US govt to "seed" commercial ventures for these kinds of things by providing
>start-up funding to commercialize these products. 

It is probably better to leave it to the marketplace.
After all, it is not as if there are not other competing realtime
oodbms around. ( Check out Mnesia for example.)
Sure FIRM is lost, but really, who cares ....