How was the SRB developed?
We were funded through a series of research/development proposals. After the initial version, we used the SRB as a basis for additional proposals and applied research projects. Because of this, the SRB is very customer driven, as we strive to meet the specific needs of current projects. Since the projects are similar in nature (at the SRB level), they often share a similar set of requirements, and we can usually leverage the development for one project to assist in other current and/or future projects. In this sense, the SRB provides a uniform data management fabric layer to build large applications.
