Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
(Operator instructions) Your first question comes from Brian Schwartz - Piper Jaffray.
Brian Schwartz - Piper Jaffray
John, look at these results here. Looks like you have the strongest quarter here in the international markets, it is really far back as I can see my model. I was just hoping to dissect that a little bit. Maybe you could talk about where you are seeing most of the strength wasn’t it even maxed. Were you seeing it in Europe or Japan? Maybe a little more color on the international contribution in the quarter.
John E. Farr
No. Speaking back on our numbers we had good international results both in Europe on our integration business and in Europe and in Japan on our database business. Good and a lot better than what we have expected and in most cases better than third quarter and in most cases better than the prior year same quarter. Now, I would say that in Europe especially in the database business, if you recall, we priced in dollars with our channel partners in Europe and with the Dollar-Euro FX rate being what it is there was a little bit less pain for those Euro-based partners to be buying US dollar based product and I will not deny that it has probably helped us a little bit in order to get some deals done but I do not think that is everything and a lot of it has to do with simply the timing of the release cycles of our ISP partners as to when they are ready to perhaps do an upgrade install-based upgrade program with us and so I know that we do we have had in current quarters and perhaps a few more of those kinds of deals in Europe on our database business. So, it is all good and we hope it continues.
Brian Schwartz - Piper Jaffray
John, how about looking on the domestic front, on the flip side here somewhere in the Macro environment is on everyone’s mind here in, North America. Can you comment maybe on trends where you are saying in regards to the sales cycles or spending trends, ASPs, pricing and maybe so far what you were saying through the month of July also.
John E. Farr
Probably I will not be able to comment too much on where we are on the first 22 days of July but to the first part your question-No one likes to be in a tough market. We are certainly in a tough market but Pervasive given our high volume, low price point business we tend to do just fine in tough economy. When price becomes (inaudible) become more of an issue the more value oriented providers, of lower cost of ownership providers tend to do okay and that is us. So again, no one likes to be in the tough market, no one is immune to the tough market but Pervasive is doing okay in tougher markets and again it is because of our pricing, because of our channels, because of our high variance.
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