UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

 

 

SCHEDULE 13D

(Rule 13d-101)

(Amendment No.2)*

Under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

 

 

 

PROGRESS SOFTWARE CORPORATION

(Name of Issuer)

 

 

 

Common Stock, $0.01 par value

(Title of Class of Securities)

 

743312100

(CUSIP NUMBER)

 

Praesidium Investment Management Company, LLC

747 Third Avenue, 35th Floor

New York, NY 10017

Tel. No.: (212) 821-1495

(Name, Address and Telephone Number of Person

Authorized to Receive Notices and Communications)

 

October 24, 2012

(Date of event which requires filing of this statement)

 

 

If the filing person has previously filed a statement on Schedule 13G to report the acquisition which is the subject of this Schedule 13D/A, and is filing this schedule because of Rule 13d-1(e), 13d-1(f) or 13d-1(g) check the following box  ¨

 

 

The information required in the remainder of this cover page shall not be deemed to be “filed” for the purpose of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Act”), or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section of the Act but shall be subject to all other provisions of the Act.

 

 

 

*	The remainder of this cover page shall be filled out for a reporting person’s initial filing on this form with respect to the subject class of securities, and for any subsequent amendment containing information which would alter disclosures provided in a prior cover page.

 

 

 

 

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CUSIP No. 743312100		13D

 

1		NAME OF REPORTING PERSONS I.R.S. IDENTIFICATION NOS. OF ABOVE PERSONS (ENTITIES ONLY)   Praesidium Investment Management Company, LLC 20-0302413
2		CHECK THE APPROPRIATE BOX IF A MEMBER OF A GROUP* (a)  ¨        (b)  ¨
3		SEC USE ONLY
4		SOURCE OF FUNDS*   OO (Funds from Investment Advisory Clients)
5		CHECK BOX IF DISCLOSURE OF LEGAL PROCEEDINGS IS REQUIRED PURSUANT TO ITEM 2(d) or 2(e)    ¨
6		CITIZENSHIP OR PLACE OF ORGANIZATION   Delaware
NUMBER OF SHARES BENEFICIALLY OWNED BY EACH REPORTING PERSON WITH				7		SOLE VOTING POWER   3,894,175
				8		SHARED VOTING POWER   0
				9		SOLE DISPOSITIVE POWER   4,116,327
				10		SHARED DISPOSITIVE POWER   0
11		AGGREGATE AMOUNT BENEFICIALLY OWNED BY EACH REPORTING PERSON   4,116,327
12		CHECK BOX IF THE AGGREGATE AMOUNT IN ROW (11) EXCLUDES CERTAIN SHARES*    ¨
13		PERCENT OF CLASS REPRESENTED BY AMOUNT IN ROW (11)   6.4%
14		TYPE OF REPORTING PERSON*   IA

 

*	SEE INSTRUCTIONS BEFORE FILLING OUT

 

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CUSIP No. 743312100		13D

 

1		NAME OF REPORTING PERSONS I.R.S. IDENTIFICATION NOS. OF ABOVE PERSONS (ENTITIES ONLY)   Kevin Oram
2		CHECK THE APPROPRIATE BOX IF A MEMBER OF A GROUP* (a)  ¨        (b)  ¨
3		SEC USE ONLY
4		SOURCE OF FUNDS*   OO (Funds from Investment Advisory Clients)
5		CHECK BOX IF DISCLOSURE OF LEGAL PROCEEDINGS IS REQUIRED PURSUANT TO ITEM 2(d) or 2(e)   ¨
6		CITIZENSHIP OR PLACE OF ORGANIZATION   United States of America
NUMBER OF SHARES BENEFICIALLY OWNED BY EACH REPORTING PERSON WITH				7		SOLE VOTING POWER   3,894,175
				8		SHARED VOTING POWER   0
				9		SOLE DISPOSITIVE POWER   4,116,327
				10		SHARED DISPOSITIVE POWER   0
11		AGGREGATE AMOUNT BENEFICIALLY OWNED BY EACH REPORTING PERSON   4,116,327
12		CHECK BOX IF THE AGGREGATE AMOUNT IN ROW (11) EXCLUDES CERTAIN SHARES*    ¨
13		PERCENT OF CLASS REPRESENTED BY AMOUNT IN ROW (11)   6.4%
14		TYPE OF REPORTING PERSON*   IN

 

*	SEE INSTRUCTIONS BEFORE FILLING OUT

 

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CUSIP No. 743312100		13D

 

1		NAME OF REPORTING PERSONS I.R.S. IDENTIFICATION NOS. OF ABOVE PERSONS (ENTITIES ONLY)   Peter Uddo
2		CHECK THE APPROPRIATE BOX IF A MEMBER OF A GROUP* (a)  ¨        (b)  ¨
3		SEC USE ONLY
4		SOURCE OF FUNDS*   OO (Funds from Investment Advisory Clients)
5		CHECK BOX IF DISCLOSURE OF LEGAL PROCEEDINGS IS REQUIRED PURSUANT TO ITEM 2(d) or 2(e)    ¨
6		CITIZENSHIP OR PLACE OF ORGANIZATION   United States of America
NUMBER OF SHARES BENEFICIALLY OWNED BY EACH REPORTING PERSON WITH				7		SOLE VOTING POWER   3,894,175
				8		SHARED VOTING POWER   0
				9		SOLE DISPOSITIVE POWER   4,116,327
				10		SHARED DISPOSITIVE POWER   0
11		AGGREGATE AMOUNT BENEFICIALLY OWNED BY EACH REPORTING PERSON   4,116,327
12		CHECK BOX IF THE AGGREGATE AMOUNT IN ROW (11) EXCLUDES CERTAIN SHARES*    ¨
13		PERCENT OF CLASS REPRESENTED BY AMOUNT IN ROW (11)   6.4%
14		TYPE OF REPORTING PERSON*   IN

 

*	SEE INSTRUCTIONS BEFORE FILLING OUT

 

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SCHEDULE 13D

This Amendment No. 2 supplements the information set forth in the Schedule 13D filed on behalf of (i) Praesidium Investment Management Company, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Praesidium”), (ii) Kevin Oram and (iii) Peter Uddo (together with Praesidium and Mr. Oram the “Reporting Persons”) with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on December 19, 2011, as amended and supplemented by Amendment No. 1 filed with the SEC on March 14, 2012 (the “Schedule 13D”), relating to common stock (“Common Stock”), of Progress Software Corporation, a Massachusetts corporation (the “Issuer”). All capitalized terms contained herein but not otherwise defined shall have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the Schedule 13D.

Item 2(a) of the Schedule 13D is hereby amended and restated as follows:

 

Item 2.

Identity and Background

(a) This statement is filed by: (i) Praesidium Investment Management Company, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Praesidium”), (ii) Kevin Oram and (iii) Peter Uddo (together with Praesidium and Mr. Oram the “Reporting Persons”).

Praesidium, in its capacity as investment manager to certain managed accounts and investment fund vehicles on behalf of investment advisory clients (collectively, the “Accounts”), has sole power to vote 3,894,175 shares of Common Stock held in the Accounts and to dispose of the shares of 4,116,327 shares of Common Stock held in the Accounts. As the managing members of Praesidium, each of Kevin Oram and Peter Uddo may be deemed to control Praesidium

Item 3 of the Schedule 13D is hereby amended and restated as follows:

 

Item 3.

Source and Amount of Funds

The net investment costs (including commissions, if any) of the shares of Common Stock directly owned by the Accounts is approximately $21.10 per share.

Item 4 of the Schedule 13D is hereby supplementally amended by adding the following:

 

Item 4.

Purpose of Transaction

As previously reported, the Reporting Persons have communicated and expect to continue to communicate to the Issuer’s management and Board, both verbally and in writing, their ideas concerning specific initiatives, which include, among other things, the spin-off or sale of certain assets and strategic acquisitions the Issuer could pursue to unlock shareholder value and capture long-term growth opportunities.

Additionally, the Reporting Persons have engaged and expect to continue to engage in communications with one or more officers, members of Board, representatives,

 

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shareholders of the Issuer and other relevant parties concerning topics such as the business, management, operations, assets, capitalization, financial condition, governance, strategy and future plans of the Issuer that may result in the Reporting Persons proposing one or more ideas that, if effectuated, may result in any of the actions described in subsections (a) through (j) of Item 4 of Schedule 13D. Depending on such communications, and subject to the conditions below, the Reporting Persons may make additional purchases or may sell or transfer Common Stock beneficially owned by them from time to time in public transactions. Any such transactions may be effected at any time or from time to time subject to any applicable limitations imposed on the sale of the Common Stock by applicable law. The Reporting Persons may, at any time and from time to time, review or reconsider their position and/or change their purpose and/or formulate plans or proposals with respect thereto.

Item 5 of the Schedule 13D is hereby amended and restated as follows:

 

Item 5.

Interest in Securities of the Issuer

(a) —(b) The Reporting Persons beneficially own 4,116,327 shares of Common Stock, which represents 6.4% of the Issuer’s outstanding shares of Common Stock. The percentage of beneficial ownership of the Reporting Persons, as reported in this Schedule 13D, was calculated by dividing (i) the total number of shares of Common Stock beneficially owned by each Reporting Person as of October 25, 2012 as set forth in this Schedule 13D, by (ii) the 63,908,000 shares of Common Stock outstanding as of October 2, 2012, according to the Issuer’s Current Report on Form 10-Q filed with the SEC on October 10, 2012.

Praesidium, in its capacity as investment manager to the Accounts has sole power to vote 3,894,175 shares of Common Stock and the power to dispose of the 4,116,327 shares of Common Stock held in the Accounts. As the managing members of Praesidium, each of Kevin Oram and Peter Uddo may be deemed to beneficially own the Common Stock held in the Accounts.

(c) Transactions in the Issuer’s securities by the Reporting Persons during the last sixty days are listed in Annex A attached hereto.

(d) Not Applicable.

(e) Not Applicable.

 

Item 7.

Material to be Filed as Exhibits

 

Exhibit 1.		Joint filing agreement by and among the Reporting Persons.

 

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Signature

After reasonable inquiry and to the best of my knowledge and belief, the undersigned certifies that the information set forth in this statement is true, complete and correct.

Dated: October 26, 2012

 

 

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