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FireStar is the provider of EdgeNode, the leading InterEnterprise Service Bus software product for building software applications that automate the exchange of business transactions between companies that are business partners , buyers, sellers, suppliers, vendors, manufacturers, and distributors. FireStar's EdgeNode expands the market for these InterEnterprise Transaction Applications by directly addressing key obstacles to broader adoption at a significantly lower price point than alternative approaches. EdgeNode is solely and totally focused on multi-enterprise business automation, incorporating innovative, patented technology that makes the differences between enterprise systems transparent, and transaction exchange secure, private, and highly adaptable to change. EdgeNode is unique as a software-only product that implements a fully distributed architecture, optimized for Internet deployment, capable of distributing transaction processing and data storage to the edge of the solution, under the control of each business trading partner. This gives EdgeNode significant advantages over traditional hub-and-spoke solutions in data privacy, transaction anonymity, scaling, and life-cycle management. EdgeNode is sold through Service Providers who add expertise in specific industry problems to create innovative solutions for their customers. EdgeNode dramatically reduces the Service Provider's Total Cost of Solution for creating and operating new, revenue generating, value-added services that can be an important source of differentiation for their business. FireStar is a private, venture capital backed company that was founded in 2001 by some of the pioneers of objected-oriented and messaging technologies. Our lead investor is Amphion Innovations (AIM: AMP.L), a firm that specializes in new technology and life sciences startups. Our first product, ObjectSparkÔ, brought patented object map techniques to help implement persistent object storage. EdgeNodeÔ, our current flagship product, builds on this technology leadership and sets a new standard for enabling business-to-business transaction exchange.