Deferred Revenues

9 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2011

Deferred Revenues

10.   Deferred Revenues

Deferred revenue consisted of the following (dollars in thousands):

	June 30,		September 30,
	2011		2010
Current Liabilities:
Deferred maintenance revenue	$	98,071	$	90,969
Unearned revenue		85,384		51,371
Total current deferred revenue	$	183,455	$	142,340
Long-term Liabilities:
Deferred maintenance revenue	$	20,274	$	12,902
Unearned revenue		61,228		63,696
Total long-term deferred revenue	$	81,502	$	76,598

Deferred maintenance revenue consists of prepaid fees received for post-contract customer support for our products, including telephone support and the right to receive unspecified upgrades/enhancements on a when-and-if-available basis. Unearned revenue includes upfront fees for setup and implementation activities related to hosted offerings; certain software arrangements for which we do not have fair value of post-contract customer support, resulting in ratable revenue recognition for the entire arrangement on a straight-line basis; and fees in excess of estimated earnings on percentage-of-completion service contracts.

The increase in the deferred maintenance revenue is primarily related to an increase in Imaging maintenance and support as well as an increase in Enterprise application maintenance. Unearned revenue increased as a result of set-up fees on new hosting arrangements that will be recognized ratably over the longer of the contract lives, or the expected lives of the customer relationship as well as billings in excess of revenues earned on several large professional service implementation projects.