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Dear Airman, Soldier, Sailor, Marine, Guardsman, American,
Thank you for your Service and sacrifice. Thank you for your professionalism thank you for your heart. I think it is important that you know that a great many of us think about you and your efforts every day and every night. We salute you and your efforts. We pray for your safe return to your family and loved ones. We are thankful for your families sacrifice with your service. You have and deserve my deepest respect and honor for your sacrifice for our country. It is your bravery, integrity, and honor that we will maintain the greatness of America. You have carried the flag with honor and distinction.
Thank you.

God Speed,
Semper Fi form a simple former Marine
Michael

Thank you SlagleRock for supporting our troops one more time.

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Marine Lance Cpl. Gregory P. Rund
21, of Littleton, Colo.; assigned to 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif.; killed Dec. 11 by enemy action in Anbar province, Iraq

LCpl Rund had lived in some hard times in America and kept his focus on how great this country is.

In the year when the Columbine High School football team won the state championship, Greg Rund did not make the game-winning catch in the end zone. He did not make a play-saving block or even a single tackle.
He was there, though - as he always was - suited up near the bench, wearing a jersey that read “110 percent,” all the time knowing that he probably would never be called to play.

The Rocky Mountain News has more on LCpl Rund

My heart felt sympathies go to the family and friends.
God Speed
Semper Fi

From the Halls of Montezuma
To the shores of Tripoli
We fight our country’s battles
In the air on land and sea.
First to fight for right and freedom
And to keep our honor clean;
We are proud to bear the title
Of United States Marines.

Our flag’s unfurled to every breeze
From dawn to setting sun;
We have fought in every clime and place
Where we could take a gun.
In the snow of far-off Northern lands
And in sunny tropic scenes;
You will find us always on the job –
The United States Marines.

Here’s health to you and to our Corps
Which we are proud to serve;
In many a strife we’ve fought for life
And never lost our nerve.
If the Army and the Navy
Ever look on Heaven’s scenes,
They will find the streets are guarded
By United States Marines.

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Oracle is going to finish the take over of Peoplesoft and has declared that they are going to support the customers and try to find synergies between the offerings. As hard as this is to believe, Oracle has started to call the JD Edwards users group in Denver.

Early this morning, Oracle contacted the Quest Board of Directors and indicated an eagerness to work with Quest as the unified voice of EnterpriseOne and World users. In a conference call that followed, the Quest board pledged to work with Oracle to ensure that your voice is heard as product and support decisions are made. We will share information about Oracles direction as specifics are provided, as openly and quickly as possible.

And Oracle has restated that there is no plans of spinning off the applications that they are buying.

“We have no intention of spinning off Enterprise One or any of the products,” Catz said. “We will bring them in, evaluate the state of the code and bring it, ultimately into a converged product line. We have no intention of spinning them off.”

In the AS/400 work with one of the main enterprises that run on the platform it seems that IBM is going to have one less division. Maybe they saw this coming and that is why they consolidated the hardware of the iSeries and pSeries.
Just a thought.

The question I has such forward vision where did Microsoft come from?

Frank Scavo at The Enterprise System Spectator has a couple posts on this.

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