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>>meetpa+(OP)
Any consolidation like this seems like a negative for consumers. But at least it wasn’t bought by Larry Ellison, as was considered very likely (assuming this merger gets approved, in the current administration you never know).

From a Hacker News perspective, I wonder what this means for engineers working on HBO Max. Netflix says they’re keeping the company separate but surely you’d be looking to move them to Netflix backend infrastructure at the very least.

>>afavou+Jd
Generally with large acquisitions, product integration tends to precede infrastructure integration by years to decades.

Look at GitHub as an example, they were acquired in 2018, and are just migrating to Azure now after 7 years.

Microsoft shipping integrations with GitHub in 20108.

This is definitely the case with several Salesforce acquisitions (early product integration, little, no, or much later infrastructure integration).

So… I predict some level of content integration within a few months.

But infra integration is likely years away.