Stock-based Compensation (Tables)

3 Months Ended

Dec. 30, 2017

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 30, 2017	Shares		Weighted Average Grant Date Fair Value (Per Share)
	(in thousands)
Balance of outstanding restricted stock units October 1, 2017	3,487		$	45.57
Granted (1)	1,281		$	61.88
Vested	(1,316	)	$	44.30
Forfeited or not earned	(270	)	$	48.10
Balance of outstanding restricted stock units December 30, 2017	3,182		$	52.45

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(1) Restricted stock granted includes 184,000 shares from prior period TSR awards that were earned upon achievement of the performance criteria and vested in November 2018.

Schedule of Restricted Stock Unit Grants for the Period

	Restricted Stock Units
Grant Period	Performance-based RSUs (1)	Service-based RSUs (2)
	(Number of Units in thousands)
First three months of 2018	461	636

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(1) Substantially all the performance-based RSUs were granted to our executive officers. Approximately 189,000 shares are eligible to vest based upon annual performance measures, measured over a three-year period. RSUs not earned for a period may be earned in the third period. An additional 250,000 shares are eligible to vest based upon a 2018 performance measure. To the extent earned, those performance-based RSUs will vest inthree substantially equal installments on November 15, 2018, November 15, 2019 and November 15, 2020, or the date the Compensation Committee determines the extent to which the applicable performance criteria have been achieved for each performance period.

(2) The service-based RSUs were granted to employees, our executive officers and our directors. All service-based RSUs will vest in three substantially equal annual installments on or about the anniversary of the date of grant.

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 30, 2017		December 31, 2016
	(in thousands)
Cost of license and subscription revenue	$	413	$	293
Cost of support revenue	808		1,144
Cost of professional services revenue	1,706		1,457
Sales and marketing	4,879		3,621
Research and development	2,960		2,997
General and administrative	7,565		8,476
Total stock-based compensation expense	$	18,331	$	17,988