Property, Plant, and Equipment, Net

12 Months Ended

Jan. 31, 2012

5. Property, Plant, and Equipment, Net

A summary of property, plant, and equipment, net follows:


As of January 31,	2012			2011
Computer equipment and furniture	$	284,191		$	265,450
Buildings and building equipment		85,704			75,211
Land and improvements		21,179			21,044
Leasehold improvements		36,998			35,211

		428,072			396,916
Less accumulated depreciation and amortization		(280,053	)		(257,576	)

Property, plant, and equipment, net	$	148,019		$	139,340

In January 2010, we purchased three buildings in Fremont, California. We capitalized $31,569 in acquisition costs which is included in Buildings and building equipment and land and improvements. We relocated all of our San Jose, California research and development, sales, and administrative operations to Fremont at the termination of our San Jose leases in the third quarter of fiscal 2011 and began depreciation of the facilities upon occupation.

- Definition

The entire disclosure for long-lived, physical assets that are used in the normal conduct of business to produce goods and services and not intended for resale. Examples include land, buildings, machinery and equipment, and other types of furniture and equipment including, but not limited to, office equipment, furniture and fixtures, and computer equipment and software. This disclosure may include property plant and equipment accounting policies and methodology, a schedule of property, plant and equipment gross, additions, deletions, transfers and other changes, depreciation, depletion and amortization expense, net, accumulated depreciation, depletion and amortization expense and useful lives, income statement disclosures, assets held for sale and public utility disclosures.

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