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Yes, you are of course perfectly correct here - 30 days is utterly unbelievable as "upgrade" time, that's just a rather poor joke, and perhaps indicates what their opinions are of the intellectual abilities of their subscribers.

It is interesting that this comes so close to that particular announcement, and it might well have something directly to do with that, though I'm not sure precisely what it might be. Other possibilities that I can think of include:

* a really, really huge and basic security flaw found, requiring a huge amount of recoding and redeployment, which they want to try to cover up to avoid scaring people from the platform as a whole but can't risk leaving the system up for;

* an internal argument with technical staff that has resulted in them taking down the whole system and quitting, meaning that it has to be recoded and redeployed, as above;

* a "getaway period" for a cut-and-run from SL, to stave off questions until cash is safely sequestered in assorted offshore bank accounts, or, at least, converted into Neopoints.

Were I an actual investor I might be a bit less whimsical and a bit more outraged, but then, I am tempted to say that were I an actual investor I would probably believe the 30/45/whatever-it-ends-up-as day thing too.