Stock-based Compensation (Tables)

3 Months Ended

Dec. 29, 2018

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 29, 2018	Shares		Weighted Average Grant Date Fair Value (Per Share)
	(in thousands)
Balance of outstanding restricted stock units October 1, 2018	3,284		$	65.93
Granted (1)	979		$	81.34
Vested	(1,056	)	$	53.40
Forfeited or not earned	(266	)	$	63.60
Balance of outstanding restricted stock units December 29, 2018	2,941		$	75.85

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(1) Restricted stock granted includes 141,000 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 2019	344	494

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(1) Substantially all the performance-based RSUs were granted to our executive officers. Approximately 145,000 shares are eligible to vest based upon annual performance measures over a three-year period. RSUs not earned for a period may be earned in the third period. To the extent earned, those performance-based RSUs will vest inthree substantially equal installments on November 15, 2019, November 15, 2020 and November 15, 2021, or the date the Compensation Committee determines the extent to which the applicable performance criteria have been achieved for each performance period. An additional 199,000 performance-based RSU's are eligible to vest based upon a 2019 performance measure, which RSUs will be forfeited to the extend the performance measure is not achieved. These RSUs will vest, to the extent earned, in three substantially equal installments on November 15, 2019, 2020 and 2021.

(2) The service-based RSUs were granted to employees, including our executive officers. Substantially 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 29, 2018		December 30, 2017
	(in thousands)
Cost of license revenue	$	322	$	(90	)
Cost of support and cloud services revenue	975		1,311
Cost of professional services revenue	1,814		1,706
Sales and marketing	9,722		4,879
Research and development	4,900		2,960
General and administrative	11,674		7,565
Total stock-based compensation expense	$	29,407	$	18,331