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greater financial, marketing, and technological resources, broader distribution capabilities, earlier access to customers,
and a greater opportunity to address customers’ various information technology requirements than we do. These factors
may provide our competitors with an advantage in penetrating markets with their products.
We also compete with many smaller, less established companies that may be able to focus more effectively on specific
product areas or markets. Because of the breadth of our product portfolio, we have competitors who may only compete
with us in one product area and other companies who compete across most or all of our product portfolios. Competitive
differentiators include, but are not limited to: industry vision, performance, quality, breadth of product offerings,
expertise, integration of products, brand name recognition, price, functionality, customer support, frequency of upgrades
and updates, manageability of products and reputation. Some of our key competitors are IBM, HP, BMC and Symantec.
We believe that we are well positioned and have a unique competitive advantage in the marketplace with our vision for
Enterprise IT Management for a number of reasons:
•The breadth and quality of our products, and their ability to integrate with existing customer technology investments.
Various CA products manage IT in most environments, whether distributed, mainframe or virtualized. As new
technologies are introduced, we continue to pursue integration to help customers see how the different elements of
IT — hardware, software and staff — work together to deliver a service to the business.
•The depth of our technical expertise.
•Our commitment to open standards and innovation.
•Our independence, which means we do not have a preferred hardware, software or operating system platform
agenda.
•Our ability to work with customers from planning through implementation, helping them quickly realize value from
CA technology.
•Our ability to offer products that are modular, open and integrated so customers can use them at their own pace
individually or in combination with their existing technology.
Employees
The table below sets forth the approximate number of employees by location and functional area as of March 31, 2009:
LOCATION FUNCTIONAL AREA
EMPLOYEES AS OF
MARCH 31, 2009
EMPLOYEES AS OF
MARCH 31, 2009
Corporate headquarters 1,900 Professional services 1,200
Support services 1,500
Other U.S. offices 5,200 Selling and marketing 3,700
General and administrative 2,400
International offices 6,100 Product development 4,400
Total 13,200 Total 13,200
As of March 31, 2009 and 2008, we had 13,200 and 13,700 employees, respectively. The decrease was mostly in our
sales and professional services staff and reflects the actions taken under the fiscal 2007 restructuring plan. For
additional information on the fiscal 2007 restructuring plan refer to Note 3, “Restructuring and Other,” in the Notes to
the Consolidated Financial Statements. We believe our employee relations are satisfactory.
(d) Financial Information About Geographic Areas
Refer to Note 5, “Segment and Geographic Information” in the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements for
financial data pertaining to our segment and geographic operations.
(e) Available Information
Our corporate website address is ca.com. All filings we make with the SEC, including our Annual Report on Form 10-K,
our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, our Current Reports on Form 8-K, and any amendments, are available for free on
our investor relations website (ca.com/investor) as soon as reasonably practicable after they are filed with or furnished
to the SEC. Our SEC filings are available to be read or copied at the SEC’s Public Reference Room at 100 F Street, N.E.,
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