CEO Charles Phillips was feeling good as he noted in this week's earnings call that the primary revenue driver was new product sales and he cited the weakness in software sales at rivals, including SAP. "It looks like their licensed revenue declined yet again," Phillips said. "We believe a similar thing happened at Oracle." That, he said, added up to Infor's gaining market share. It helped the bottom line that interest expense declined to $98.4 million, down 4.8 percent from $103.4 million a year earlier. However, Infor's operating income also grew to $142.5 million, up 26 percent from $113.2 million a year ago. The company stuck to its commitment to increase development with spending in that area rising 12.3 percent while overall operating expenses fell by 2.3 percent from last year's second quarter. Phillips noted his company's ability to garner increasing interest from the national business press and said Infor is launching a new brand advertising campaign that is concentrating on airports. He said consulting revenue dropped because Infor is increasingly turning implementation over to partners, which supports the company's statements it is building its channel.