Nelson referred to Microsoft as offering users the opportunity “to move back 15 years,” and described the mid-market rival’s applications as “designed  before the Worldwide Web even existed.” Outside of that, executives said the call highlighted results that were another quarter of record performance. However, NetSuite lost $7.2 million in the first quarter ended March 31, 84.6 percent more than the year-earlier loss of $3.9 million on increased expenses. First quarter revenue was $43.9 million, up 4.5 percent from $41.6 million in last year’s corresponding quarter. Somehow, when I listen to the attacks on the competition, the words from the theme from the movie “Ghostbusters” keep ringing in my head: “I ain’t afraid of no ghosts.” Must be the spring pollen. Also interesting was the description of two incidents of downtime in April, one that Nelson said affected 75 percent of customers that lasted 33 minutes and one soon after that of 17 minutes that hit 95 percent of customers. Nelson said NetSuite’s uptime for the trailing 12 months was 99.97 percent, although it wasn’t clear what the percentage was for April. The information was solicited by an analyst's question - NetSuite did not volunteer it.