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Tech HistoryNews July 12, 2026 4 min read

Microsoft Acquires GitHub and Promises Operational Independence

How Microsoft's $7.5 billion all-stock GitHub acquisition joined developer infrastructure to its cloud strategy—and why trust mattered.

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Tech HistoryNews July 12, 2026 3 min read

Oracle Completes Its Acquisition of Sun Microsystems

The January 2010 transaction that put Java, Solaris, MySQL, and major server assets under Oracle—and reshaped their communities.

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Tech HistoryNews July 11, 2026 4 min read

AOL Announces It Will Buy Netscape for $4.2 Billion

How AOL's 1998 all-stock Netscape agreement combined a portal, enterprise software, talent, and browser leverage—not one simple Microsoft counterattack.

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