The time has come to say goodbye to Ed Zander, a dear friend of the CrunchGear family. And by "dear friend" I mean a guy we mentioned six times, were you to search for "Zander" on our site.

We’ve had a great ride, huh? Thanks for the memories, Ed. We’ll never forget the RAZR, RAZR2, ROZR, RUZR, RIZR, and all the other great phones whose models names contained the first letter of your soft and gentle last name.

Good luck to you in your next adventure, an adventure that begins on January 1, 2008.  We welcome your company’s chief operating officer Greg Brown with open arms, but we’ll never forget how you touched our lives forever. Goodbye, Moto.

Zander out as CEO at Motorola [Computerworld]