Oracle jacks up Java licences price

Oracle's latest price hike for Java standard edition (SE) licensing has been met with controversy as the cloud vendor switches from charging based on Java users to total number of employees. Oracle's 2023 price list for the Java SE Universal subscription reveals the company is basing costs on total employee counts, not just employees using Java. The price list, published last week, shows costs starting at $15 per employee for companies with 1-999 employees, and scaling down to a minimum...