Stock Compensation

3 Months Ended

Jan. 31, 2015

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 January 31,
	2015			2014
	(in thousands)
Cost of license	$	2,118		$	1,861
Cost of maintenance and service	542			428
Research and development expense	10,200			8,916
Sales and marketing expense	4,247			3,732
General and administrative expense	3,474			3,181
Stock compensation expense before taxes	20,581			18,118
Income tax benefit	(4,699		)	(4,220		)
Stock compensation expense after taxes	$	15,882		$	13,898

As of January 31, 2015, there was $137.8 million of unamortized share-based compensation expense, which is expected to be amortized over a weighted-average period of approximately 2.6 years.

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



	Three Months Ended January 31,
	2015		2014
	(in thousands)
Intrinsic value of awards exercised	$	11,517	$	16,199

- 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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