Classic Oracle Metalink Lives?

For the last several months logins to the Online Oracle Support Site - Metalink have been accompanied by notices of 'Classic' HTML based Metalink ending with the new Flash driven version taking over. My response has typically been to "please keep the Classic Metalink version as an option" - both options have been available online lately.

I was pleased to see today in San Francisco Chronicle online (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/10/09/urnidgns002570F3005978D80025764A00499E00.DTL) that I was not alone.. Oracle has evidently backed off dumping the Classic Metalink Portal, however it will be crippled somewhat according to the SFGate article referenced above. I had found the new Flash driven site slow and sometimes buggy. If you don't want or can't install Flash then you would be out of luck under the original plan to end Metalink.