Nathan Biggs, House of Bricks CEO, estimated that a company with 250 employees, 20 Java Desktop Users and eight Java Installed Processors would pay $3,000 a year on the old model, which grows to $45,000 a year under the new subscription, a 1,400 percent increase.

I know someone who works at a large place that got hit by a similar increase. I assume Oracle thought they were large enough to not care and would just pay the HUGE increase. Instead they had a team that spent a couple months ripping Java out of everything. Oracle went from making something, to making nothing. I don't understand how they could think these increases are a good idea.