Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
Thank you. (Operator instructions). Our first question comes from Rich Baldry. Sir, your line is open.
Rich Baldry -- First Albany
Thanks. Earlier in the year you talked about the 18 million to $20 million cost cut program, looks like you have really realized most of those now, I'm wondering if you can quantify what the next pages of that restructuring as you see throughout 2010 might be envisioned a cut in aggregate? And then also could you talk about and you're talking about some strengthening in your end markets and your larger customers, maybe look at that a little bit more by vertical? Thanks.
Rory Cowan
Thanks Rich. I think a couple of things. First, remember in March we announced that we would be taking out about $18 million to $20 million of cost in almost a one-for-one. What we found is by – I think we shared with you earlier – is by pacing this over a couple of quarters, it was a much more, a less costly process to do that. So we're actually getting more for less and we see that there is even more to go. So I think that we have probably spent – what's our number so far, about 6 million, 4.5, 5?
Donald Muir
About 4.5.
Rory Cowan
We've spent about 4.5 million so far. You can see the results from that are coming through very aggressively and we probably see we could spend another 6 million next year and probably get an equal benefit as well. So I think there is a little bit more to go here, Rich. In fact what we're finding is that with this process we are just becoming so much more effective and productive as we begin to put more and more of this activity into the cloud and move more and more of the engineering activities sort of offshore. So we're about 40% of the way through our announced restructuring, but I don't think we will be spending this much as we originally thought we would. So it is just all around good news.
And then you ask about specific end markets. We are beginning to see people like Microsoft as you know, they are going into a very large product release cycle, and they are our largest customer. As the media market comes back, we are beginning to see some of the search players increase their spend. We're also getting some very nice traction in the medical devices world and also as I mentioned in my script, in my remarks, we had a couple of very nice wins in the automotive segment. So I'm not swinging from the chandeliers yet, but it is a very different environment than it was nine months or a year ago across all of our end markets. There is a firmness, people are beginning to talk about new projects. Just once burned twice shy, I'm just a little hesitant to actually nudge things along until I see this level of interest convert into actual business.
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