Dell, which is waist-deep in investigations into how it did its bookkeeping, paralyzing its ability to get its numbers out, has suddenly lost its long-standing CFO Jim Schneider days before Christmas (hmmm) and, in response, Dell Tuesday reached out to its board (hmmm) and named long-time director Donald Carty, erstwhile chairman and CEO of AMR Corporation, the parent company of American Airlines, the world's premier carrier, not only CFO but vice-chairman (hmmm).

Carty, whose appointment become effective January 1, will remain on the board and report to CEO Kevin Rollins. (Consider that some pundits have been forecasting that Rollins won't survive 2007. Heck, the entire management team might look different in a few months.)

Before he headed AMR and before he was president of American Airlines, Carty was its CFO. He's been on the Dell board since 1992 and resigned from AMR in 2003 after pleading poverty - well it was $6 billion in the hole - wringing concessions from the unions to ward off bankruptcy, and then secretly awarding himself and senior management big fat bonuses.

Schneider, who supposedly put the ball in play (hmmm), is supposed to stick around for the transition until the end of Dell's fiscal year at the end of February then he's supposed to become executive chairman of board of Frontier Bancshares.

Thomas Luce will replace Carty as head of Dell's audit committee.

Meanwhile, the Nasdaq is threatening to delist Dell again because the company hasn't filed its fiscal Q3 report with the SEC.

Dell now has a matching set of these delisting notices. It got one when its fiscal Q2 report went lacking. Its fiscal Q2 numbers haven't been filed yet either.

Dell is still trading on the Nasdaq's sufferance pending a decision from the panel that met on November 2 to listen to its plan for getting compliant again.

All this of course stems from multiple investigations into Dell books. What exactly the SEC and the Justice Department suspect it of remains a matter of speculation.

Wind River, also now with two Nasdaq notices in hand, has the same story to tell. It's missing its returns from both the July and October quarter too.

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