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is Southfield apartment is
tidy to the point of fussi-
ness. Paintings and porce-
lain objets d'art neatly line
walls and shelves, while the dark
wood of his classical furniture
arrangements gleams.
Humming in a corner is the
place's lifeblood: Boris Tiraspol-
sky's computers.
With doctorates in art and
economics, 40 stage plays under
his belt, former ties to the Sovi-
et government and a dozen
years spent in New York City,
the Moscow native doesn't like
to be lumped in with other im-
migrants.
And he may as well have been
born a capitalist.
Mr. Tiraspolsky's latest pro-
ject is a computer network that
Name: Boris Tiraspolsky
Occupation: Founder of
Community Information
Network, co-owner of Fine Art
Forum at the Gibraltar Trade
Center.
Family: Daughter, Margarita;
parents, Michael and Dorothy;
brother, Leon; aunt, Lubov.
Education/Achievements:
Earned doctorates in art and
economics and produced and
wrote plays in the former Soviet
Union.
links small businesses ranging
from medical practices to restau-
rants with each other and with
individuals who need to find out
where, for example, they can find
an all-night locksmith or veteri-
narian, caviar prices, coupons
and just about any other service
available.
Businesses pay an initial fee
of $30 for three months and then
$1 per day to be part of the Com-
munity Information Network. Al-
though the service is free to
anyone with a computer modem,
individuals can pay a small fee
for an electronic mail address
that enables them to, say, order
from a menu or print out a
coupon.
If a business is computer-less,
it can still post its wares on the
bulletin board. Mr. Tiraspolsky,
49, will deliver to it any electronic
mail messages that come
through his central computer at
home.
Since he introduced the CIN
in May, he has tracked about 13
calls each day from interested cy-
ber-consumers.
Mr. Tiraspolsky, who also runs
an antique business with his par-
ents at the Gibraltar Trade Cen-
Boris Tiraspolsky: Interface
specialist.
ter in Mt. Clemens, counts
the Southfield Chamber of
Commerce, with its 400 or so
member businesses, as the CThrs
largest customer. Some 80 other
businesses have also signed on.
The beauty of the CIN is that
it levels the playing field. By
virtue of their size, Mr. Tiraspol-
sky said, small companies lack
access to the "electronic market-
place."
"I care about small business-
es, and I see how much trouble
they're in. The technological gap
between big manufacturers and
small business is dangerous,"
he said. "The relationship be-
tween small and large has been
diluted in cyberspace. We're
talking about a serious break-
through for people at work and
at home."