Yes maybe they can sell it to companies having to deal with existing systems, but what about new ones?

I believe people are going to think twice before going further on the Java path.

Like Osvaldo Doederlein said on the site :

  people would immediately think "today Oracle charges for top optimizations;
  next year they will charge for common bugfixes; later on, even for security patches"
  and this kind of FUD might destroy Java