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Acquired Intangible Assets (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2011

Acquired Intangible Assets

Calculation Of Acquired Intangibles By Asset Class

		Technology Assets				Customer Assets				Total
Net book value, June 30, 2009			173,547				141,501				315,048
Acquisition of Burntsand Inc.(note 17)			—				753				753
Acquisition of New Generation Consulting Inc.(note 17)			—				440				440
Acquisition of Nstein Technologies Inc. (note 17)			17,310				2,919				20,229
Acquisition of Vignette Corporation (note 17)			68,200				22,700				90,900
Amortization expense			(60,472	)			(35,940	)			(96,412	)
Impairment of intangible assets (note 16)			(281	)			—				(281	)
Foreign exchange and other impacts			(308	)			(2,176	)			(2,484	)
Net book value, June 30, 2010			197,996				130,197				328,193
Acquisition of weComm Limited (note 17)			5,000				300				5,300
Acquisition of Metastorm Inc. (note 17)			40,700				34,300				75,000
Acquisition of StreamServe Inc. (note 17)			27,300				15,400				42,700
Amortization expense			(68,048	)			(38,966	)			(107,014	)
Foreign exchange and other impacts			682				134				816
Net book value, June 30, 2011		$	203,630			$	141,365			$	344,995

Calculation Of Estimated Future Amortization Expense

		Fiscal years ending June 30,
2012		$	117,204
2013			113,937
2014			55,353
2015			31,557
2016 and beyond			26,944
Total		$	344,995

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