Google (GOOG) Landing Top Oracle (ORCL) Enterprise Workers

Not normally known as an enterprise-focused company, Google(NASDAQ:GOOG) is pulling some heavy hitters from the giant across town, including Shinichi Abe who joined Google Enterprise Japan this month.

As Google makes its way into the enterprise with its apps product, it needs to bring in sales executives with experience dealing with large companies. One of the major complaints of any Google product is the lack of human support/interfaces and enterprise execs are extremely unlikely to sell their company's messaging over to a web interface.

When I spoke to Dave Girouard, Google's president of enterprise last month, he explained that Google was focused on growing the client-facing part of the business to where its decades-old competitors were.

It turns out that a lot of the high profile people Google is recruiting are coming from cross-town rival Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL).

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