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> and they've probably been working on Adobe's roadmap / integration for the past 15 months. $1B would be enough to cover that completely, but as a person who

by dijit 3y ago

> and they've probably been working on Adobe's roadmap / integration for the past 15 months. $1B would be enough to cover that completely, but as a person who has been in companies that have been acquired. (multiple times), that's not really how it works. I've never worked anywhere that started working on integrating or unifying roadmaps before the contracts were inked and the deal fully ratified.

hn_throwaway_99 3y ago
> I've never worked anywhere that started working on integrating or unifying roadmaps before the contracts were inked and the deal fully ratified. Because it's not really legal. I've been a similar situation previously, and we were specifically forbidden from working on any integration projects until the deal closed, as in the legal department gave a company-wide presentation on exactly what kind of work was and wasn't allowed (e.g. obviously execs/legal folks could work towards completing the merger, but working on actual engineering integration was expressly forbidden).