PROVISION FOR INCOME TAXES	9 Months Ended
PROVISION FOR INCOME TAXES	Aug. 31, 2014
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]
PROVISION FOR INCOME TAXES	PROVISION FOR INCOME TAXES The effective tax rate was 72% and 27% for the three months ended August 31, 2014 and 2013, respectively and 46% and 22% for the nine months ended August 31, 2014 and 2013, respectively. In the three months ended August 31, 2014, we recognized a discrete tax expense of $2.0 million, primarily related to withholding taxes. In the nine months ended August 31, 2014, we recognized a discrete tax expense of $2.2 million, primarily related to a $4.0 million tax expense for withholding taxes, offset by $0.7 million of tax benefits from the expiration of various statutes of limitations and $1.2 million of the prior year's foreign tax return refund. In the three months ended August 31, 2013, we recognized a discrete provision of $1.4 million related to estimated withholding taxes in jurisdictions where we do not expect to benefit from a foreign tax credit. In the nine months ended August 31, 2013, we recognized certain discrete items of tax expense and benefit for a net benefit of $1.3 million primarily related to adjust taxes provided for prior year U.S. and foreign tax returns, to accrue withholding taxes, and to record tax benefits from retroactive legislative reinstatement of the federal research and development credit. We recognize withholding taxes as discrete items because of the high variability of withholding tax rates by country and the difficulty in forecasting the exact country of future revenue. The provisions for the nine month periods ended August 31, 2014 and 2013 reflect forecasted annual tax rates of 39% and 24%, respectively, offset by discrete items which are recognized in the period they occur. The forecasted tax rate reflects the benefits resulting from the reorganization of certain foreign entities, lower foreign taxes, domestic manufacturing incentives, and federal and state research and development credits, partially offset by the impact of certain stock compensation charges and state income taxes. The federal research and development credits expired on December 31, 2013. We use the single sales factor apportionment for California state taxation, which is expected to lower our future taxable state income. This reduction in taxable income may affect the extent to which we can benefit from $17.9 million (net of reserve for uncertain tax positions) research and development credit carryforwards and $7.1 million net operating loss carryforwards. If we determine that it is more likely than not that we will not be able to fully utilize these carryforwards, we will recognize a valuation allowance against the related deferred tax assets. During the three months ended August 31, 2014, the amount of gross unrecognized tax benefits increased by approximately $3.3 million. The total amount of gross unrecognized tax benefits was $93.6 million as of August 31, 2014, of which $78.3 million would benefit tax expense if realized. We elected to include interest expense and penalties accrued on unrecognized tax benefits as a component of our income tax expense. We are subject to routine corporate income tax audits in the United States, India, Netherlands, Sweden, United Kingdom and other foreign jurisdictions. Due to uncertainty of tax audit outcomes and the timing of tax audit settlements, we are unable to estimate the changes to our unrecognized tax benefit over the next twelve months.

The entire disclosure for income taxes. Disclosures may include net deferred tax liability or asset recognized in an enterprise's statement of financial position, net change during the year in the total valuation allowance, approximate tax effect of each type of temporary difference and carryforward that gives rise to a significant portion of deferred tax liabilities and deferred tax assets, utilization of a tax carryback, and tax uncertainties information.

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