@Ed You can set up your oracle.com account to subscribe to various communications. Most of them are marketing spam.

@Gazzag There may be something commercial going on here. Uncle Oracle really wants us to go to the Oracle Cloud. A year or so ago their sales droids were all given new commission structures that basically meant they make virtually nothing from selling on premises licences but heaps for Cloud sales. I heard the other day that Larry's revenue from the Cloud is indeed shooting up, but that hardware and licence sales are dropping through the floor. This announcement may be an attempt to reverse this situation. Or at least, reverse the bad part of it.