Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
Thanks very much. (Operator Instructions) We'll take our first question from Abhey Lamba from ISI Group. Caller, your line is open. We go next to John Difucci with JPMorgan.
John Difucci – JPMorgan
Thank you. I think Scott and Doug, as Vinny said that the run rate business has been tough lately and it's continue to be tough. I'm just curious is this something do you think that has to do more with sort of run rate business that low ASP business for people who are just having hard time or not buying lower priced items. Just focusing more on mission critical things, or do you think it has something more to do with the product say that are in that category, as I think Vinny pointed out, there are lot of database tools because there's other companies recover and always we recover and they actually that business did come back and we saw some softness at the end of last year and into the first quarter, but it seems they have come back for some other companies. So I just wonder if you can comment on that?
Vincent C. Smith
This is Vinny speaking. I have tracked a couple of companies that have seen most of them been affected in this lower band either through slower growth like we've suffered flow into negative growth, and lower growth. Certainly, the productivity tools they are not must have product tools we will be put on the backbone or when you going through a IT budgeting process and I think so we're suffering from probably three competitive situations, one is the IT budget compression or economic climate. Two is the some of these tools are must plat tools. And then the third thing is in some places the platform vendors providing three solutions that are getting a lot more utilization even other maybe interior and could be justified typically and they can be easily justify the buy our product they are getting a second chance. So I think we are suffering from a variety of these trends that are affecting us in this band. I can just tell you that we recall our guard a little bit by this because in prior slowdown this band tended to be relatively resilient, in this time what we think happened is more centralization was put into budgeting in the IT director our senior executive pick their core projects and didn’t let much buying going on beyond those projects that had direct every signal.
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