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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 8693165" data-attributes="member: 19857">But that is an example where the two businesses are doing the same thing.  That's like a Disney acquiring 20th Century Fox move where you buy a company that is doing the same thing as you because of their intellectual property or other assets to that you can sell them yourself.  You get a lot of overlap there because you can just move the chips brand and recipe over to your existing chips manufacturing facilities and shut down the ones you no longer need.In this case it's two businesses who are selling different things.  Their core businesses complement each other, so you don't find redundancies and cost savings there.  Getting rid of the printing would presumably be cutting off profits (or else OBS would have stopped the printing side long ago) so it wouldn't make sense to look for new efficiencies from the merger there.If I were working for these companies in HR, Finance, internal tech support, and possibly customer support/service I'd be worried about my job being redundant in the merger.  Those are the kinds of places where companies who are doing this kind of merger/acquisition immediately look to shave costs because that kind of work is analogous to the chips example above - two groups doing the same thing where you can just consolidate the work into a single group.  Even the development staff for the two products are probably safe for now - down the road they might merge the two products and create a single group to develop it but that'll take years, and logistically the storefront product and the VTT product are so different I doubt merging them together would be an easy or even desirable task.  I'd only be concerned if I were someone who was a dedicated developer of the Marketplace portion of Roll20 (if they even organize things that way) - I strongly suspect that one of the first orders of business will be to integrate the Roll20 Marketplace into OBS's framework - especially since they announced a while back that they were working on building connectors between the two.  Eventually I suspect the Roll20 Marketplace code will go away entirely and be replaced by an OBS storefront.</blockquote>

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