Kenny was seconded from the CA board to take some of the heat off his predecessor Sanjay Kumar when it became inescapable that the federal prosecutors wanted Kumar out.

Basically a placeholder, Kenny wasn't able to finish a keynote speech at CA World the other week after the teleprompter failed. He simply walked off in the middle, someone who was there told us.

A trade paper publisher and past president of CMP Publications, Cron's last gig was as CEO of Vivendi Universal Games and now a buddy of his, Viacom CEO Sumner Redstone, has boosted his position in billion-dollar-a-year Midway Games Inc to 72.4%, up from 30% in January, and has been talking about taking the joint private.

The swat of Midway shares Redstone just acquired involved the resignation of Midway's chairman and Redstone is rumored to be eying Kenny to run the place. As a matter of fact, Redstone persuaded the Midway board to cut itself down from 11 to eight directors and has nominated his daughter Shari, and Kenny, as directors.

Since Kumar traded in his CEO chevrons in April, little has been heard out of CA about its hunt for a full-time CEO as well as a new CFO. Understandably difficult placements, but when Sanjay quit in earnest last Friday, CA PR claimed it didn't even know the names of the two top-flight headhunters the company has reportedly hired to search.

Meanwhile Kenny, who is evidently distracted by other interests, CA's newly cast chairman Lewis Ranieri and equally newly created COO Jeff Clarke, who only joined CA recently from HP, are supposed to be running the company.

But the only one understood to turning up for work regularly is Clarke, who is also acting CFO and has been struggling to get CA's problematic SEC filings done. So, we ask, who exactly is running the joint?

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