Remember 1999? IPO fever had hit Austin in a big way, and dot-coms were the darlings of the day - until their bank accounts ran dry. Of the slew of companies that went public last year amid great fanfare, only one company - Vignette Corp. - has proved the survivor of the bunch. One of the first out of the IPO chute in 1999, Vignette, which develops software for e-commerce sites, is still getting some impressive writeups in the national press. Business Week, for example, ranked them the No. 2 fastest-growing tech company in the U.S. What's the secret behind Vignette's success? Two words: business plan.
