Stock-based Compensation (Tables)

3 Months Ended

Dec. 28, 2013

Share-based Compensation, Allocation and Classification in Financial Statements [Abstract]

Schedule of Restricted Stock and Restricted Stock Unit Activity

Restricted stock unit activity for the three months ended December 28, 2013	Shares		Weighted Average Grant Date Fair Value (Per Share)
	(in thousands)
Balance of outstanding restricted stock units October 1, 2013	5,186		$	21.67
Granted	1,130		$	32.17
Vested	(1,627	)	$	21.13
Forfeited or not earned	(172	)	$	21.87
Balance of outstanding restricted stock units December 28, 2013	4,517		$	24.47

Schedule of Restricted Stock Unit Grants for the Period

	Restricted Stock Units
Grant Period	Performance-based (1)	Time-based (2)
	(Number of Units in thousands)
First three months of 2014	345	785

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(1) The performance based RSUs were granted to employees, including our executive officers. Substantially all of these performance-based will be eligible to vest in three substantially equal installments on (i) the later of November 15, 2014 and the date the Compensation Committee determines the extent to which 2014 performance criteria have been achieved, (ii) the later of November 15, 2015 and the date the Compensation Committee determines the extent to which the applicable 2015 performance criteria have been achieved, and (iii) the later of November 15, 2016 and the date the Compensation Committee determines the extent to which the applicable 2016 performance criteria have been achieved; RSUs not earned for a period may be earned in subsequent periods.

(2) The time-based RSUs were issued to employees, including our executive officers, and a member of our Board of Directors as described in Note 1. Substantially all of these time-based RSUs, will vest in three substantially equal annual installments in November 2014, 2015 and 2016

Schedule of Classification of Compensation Expense

Compensation expense recorded for our stock-based awards was classified in our consolidated statements of operations as follows:

	Three months ended
	December 28, 2013		December 29, 2012
	(in thousands)
Cost of license revenue	$	4	$	5
Cost of service revenue	1,598		1,612
Cost of support revenue	924		826
Sales and marketing	2,499		2,458
Research and development	2,689		2,512
General and administrative	5,050		4,480
Total stock-based compensation expense	$	12,764	$	11,893