Equity Incentive and Benefit Plans (Details 3)	12 Months Ended
Jul. 31, 2011	Jul. 31, 2010	Jul. 31, 2009
Employee Stock Options
Risk-free interest rate	1.60%	1.80%	2.00%
Expected term (in years)	4.0	4.3	4.2
Dividend yield	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%
Volatility	70.00%	71.00%	66.00%

The period of time an equity-based award is expected to be outstanding. An equity-based award's expected term is generally determined based on, among other factors, the instrument's contractual term and the effects of employees' expected exercise and post-vesting employment termination behavior.

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The estimated measure of the percentage by which a share price is expected to fluctuate during a period. Volatility also may be defined as a probability-weighted measure of the dispersion of returns about the mean. The volatility of a share price is the standard deviation of the continuously compounded rates of return on the share over a specified period. That is the same as the standard deviation of the differences in the natural logarithms of the stock prices plus dividends, if any, over the period.

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