Not only that, remember those mysterious "Google layoffs" back around Valentine's Day, before this virus mess? The ones they were so secretive about? That was

Not only that, remember those mysterious "Google layoffs" back around Valentine's Day, before this virus mess? The ones they were so secretive about? That was one of the new Oracle execs firing the entire Seattle-based cloud marketing team. The reason for firing those people was solely to open up headcount to get more salespeople. The marketing team was not happy, for obvious reasons, and company PR worked pretty hard to spin this one. This is not how Googlers expect the company to work. But it is exactly what Oracle refugees expect. My take: GOOG is in for some Ballmer doldrum years of its own. They've well and truly arrived for the employees, but Wall Street hasn't quite figured it out yet.