Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
(Operator instructions) First question comes from Gary Mobley. Your line is open, state your afflation, please.
Gary Mobley – Piper Jaffray
Hi, Gary with Piper Jaffrey. (inaudible) comp on question for you and I apologize for this. But relating to the revenue shortfall in the Chipidea business, any of it have to deal with revenue recognition issues that have plagued the numbers recently? And then with respect to the sales force integration, it's my understanding that Chipidea had a very lean force in the past, any idea towards (inaudible) analog IP with the processor sales guys? So, I am just curious how the combination ends up equaling less than what Chipidea had previously accomplished?
John Bourgoin
Yes, Gary, certainly a piece of had it has to do with (inaudible). I don't think those were big surprise to it because we knew what we are getting into there, but certainly some of the deals had some issues [ph] associated with them, and as we get better at fine-tuning our deals and making sure we get that all right. That'll will be less true in the future. With regard to the sales guy, obviously our sales force now is 2.5 or 3 times as big as it was before, and that's a good thing. The bad thing is it takes out – most estimates are it takes six months for the guys to get fully up to speed with the products and to get familiar with the systems. I think we probably under estimated the degree of difficulty of that a little bit, and it took us a little bit time to get going. Now, we did end up with 25 and 30 contracts. So, it wasn't a terrible quarter in terms of the contracts. We had a few more last quarter and we had some things that I think we probably could've gotten had we been a little more efficient, I would expect to get those going forward. But I don't see any fundamental issues here. I think we just got off to a bit of a slow start.
Gary Mobley – Piper Jaffray
Sure, and just give me an apples-to-apples comparison. How did the previous Chipidea sales folks fare for the quarter?
John Bourgoin
Interesting enough, their results were similar to our results although in one or two cases, we had the older or the legacy Chipidea sales guys focus on obvious Chipidea accounts or analog accounts. So, there was a case or two where they did well because of the way we assigned the accounts.
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