In case you missed it a few weeks ago, Open Text announced plans to buy Vignette for $310 million. The Austin American-Statesman has a nice write up on the deal and Vignette’s history here. Gartner believes that Vignette will continue to operate nearly autonomously as a subsidiary (read more here) with little integration into Open Text’s existing stack.
I find this interesting on several levels:
As a portal technologist, it’s interesting that one of the early portal vendors is no longer an independent entity and could be facing some significant changes in the future.
As an Austinite, it’s one more door closing on the Internet Bubble chapter of our history.
As a Perficient employee, it’s fun to see that we’re one of the last two standing of 1999 Austin-based IPOs (we like seeing our name in the paper 🙂 ).
