My reply (including my follow-up clarification post) outlined a hypothetical scenario where Avot's functionality could augment the CDX functionality by embedding the capability for the dynamic streaming of digital video media within the secure data sharing capabilities of CDX. As I see it, it would effectively provide the user of a CDX-augmented system the ability to share (access) an additional file type (streaming digital video) in a near-real-time way, along with the textual data, from another database. This could apply to any of the target market, including health car, law enforcement, or public safety. IMO, it is the secure nature of the data exchange solution provided by CDX that is the crux of the solution. Perhaps this is one area for cross-pollination.

Ignoring the media might not be possible, meaning the media is a necessary essential element in the specific functionality of each solution. Put another way, each "program," though performing some sort of "normalization" of data for exchanging in a standardized way between disparate systems, is expecting to see that data in a range of form and structure which is specific to the target media types. I admittedly have limited experience at the computer programming level, but I understand the fundamentals of logic-based systems and I work with digital video in its various forms. It would seem to me that the functionality provided by the program of either system is what is relevant, not the programming code itself. I believe this is what you are referring to when you said, "shouldn't the software developers be talking to each other about integrating some or all of their respective program to improve that of the other?"

We seem to agree that some sort of cross-pollination could be accomplished, but the question as to whether it should be accomplished is dependent upon whether something beneficial would result, i.e., a stronger, more powerful version of CDX that solved a problem experienced by the market.

I think these are good questions, the answers to which would provide some insight into the scope of any synergistic elements of Rick Goerner's M&A plans. But I also think that the answers will need to come through him from the software developers you mention in your post. Perhaps a question to RG submitted through Patriot IR is in order. I would assume RG would have the information to comment as to any co-development intentions, but whether he willing or able is another question, indeed. Never-the-less, I will submit the questions as posed within the framework of this particular discussion and post any response I receive.

Cheers,

DG