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/ Adam Richardson

AOL to buy Netscape

America Online has agreed to acquire cyberspace software pioneer Netscape Communications in a deal valued at $4.2 billion, the companies said Tuesday.

AOL to buy Netscape is the story on November 24, 1998, and it is one of those late-1998 PC gaming updates that says exactly where the scene is right now. America Online has agreed to acquire cyberspace software pioneer Netscape Communications in a deal valued at $4.2 billion, the companies said Tuesday. AOL also said it had reached a definitive, three-year deal with Sun Microsystems to develop and market electronic commerce software systems that make it easy for companies to set up shop on the Internet.

For players keeping track of patches, demos, hardware drivers, online events, and retail releases, this is the sort of news that can change what gets installed tonight. The business side keeps moving, and sometimes those deals decide what we actually get to play next year.