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...... Three main alternatives have been identified: do nothing; rewrite the code; and update the hardware as well as rewrite the code. The do nothing option has the advantage of requiring the least amount of investment. The technology that has been developed to this point is already workable and being used in HTEK products. Another advantage is that the company will not incur any hardware development expenses, which the firm expects would be substantial. Doing nothing, however, has several disadvantages. Because the current code was put together with a time-to-market mindset, it is a mess. Functionality is somewhat impaired and the current code does not allow for easy upgrades in the future. Another disadvantage is that some of the components of the current code are not the intellectual property of HTEK. Therefore, licensing rights must be paid for RTX SDK, RTX runtime and XPE. The third disadvantage is that the current code is not stable, as it relies on XPE, which is not a real-time operating system. Finally, using XPE/RTX comes with significant hardware resource requirements that reduce the potential efficiency and effectiveness of the QNAV product. So while doing nothing leaves us with a workable product, it also leaves

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