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Basis of Presentation - Narrative (Details) developer in Millions | 3 Months Ended
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Feb. 29, 2020 enterprise_customer developer software_vendor
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract] |
Number of independent software vendors | software_vendor | 1,700
Number of enterprise customers | enterprise_customer | 100,000
Number of developers | developer | 2

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