Stock Compensation

9 Months Ended

Jul. 31, 2014

Disclosure of Compensation Related Costs, Share-based Payments [Abstract]

The compensation cost recognized in the unaudited condensed consolidated statements of operations for the Company’s stock compensation arrangements was as follows:



	Three Months Ended July 31,						Nine Months Ended July 31,
	2014			2013			2014			2013
	(in thousands)
Cost of license	$	2,176		$	1,566		$	5,952		$	4,872
Cost of maintenance and service	684			366			1,646			1,210
Research and development expense	10,126			8,114			28,037			23,655
Sales and marketing expense	4,696			3,454			12,394			10,339
General and administrative expense	3,717			2,990			10,312			9,643
Stock compensation expense before taxes	21,399			16,490			58,341			49,719
Income tax benefit	(4,905		)	(4,035		)	(13,372		)	(12,166		)
Stock compensation expense after taxes	$	16,494		$	12,455		$	44,969		$	37,553

As of July 31, 2014, there was $155.6 million of unamortized share-based compensation expense, which is expected to be amortized over a weighted-average period of approximately 2.7 years.

The intrinsic values of equity awards exercised during the periods are as follows:



	Three Months Ended July 31,				Nine Months Ended July 31,
	2014		2013		2014		2013
	(in thousands)
Intrinsic value of awards exercised	$	3,709	$	12,899	$	23,556	$	34,764

- Definition

The entire disclosure for compensation-related costs for equity-based compensation, which may include disclosure of policies, compensation plan details, allocation of equity compensation, incentive distributions, equity-based arrangements to obtain goods and services, deferred compensation arrangements, employee stock ownership plan details and employee stock purchase plan details.

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