Revenue rose to $186.2 million, up from $173.8 million. A particularly good sign was license revenue of $31.9 million, up 28 percent from $24.9 million a year ago. In a Webcast on Wednesday, CEO Harry Debes called it a good performance. While results weren't back to levels two years ago, "More customers are moving forwards on software investment," he said and Debes called the quarter one which was good on almost every front. Also relevant is that in the last week of March, the company announced that next month it would offer its core Lawson Enterprise Management Systems and Lawson Talent Management suite via the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud infrastructure. The products are part of the new Lawson Cloud Services portfolio. Debes put an interesting spin on this saying it was "beyond SaaS" in that the company wasn't offering the same vanilla applications to all customers via the Internet.