Like many others, I can't say that I'm terribly excited by the new name - even though I can see the common ground for the color. I hope that it is not a sign of us feeling the blues after learning the detail of the new program. ;-)
The idea is probably to loose the French and Dutch identity in order to create a Pan-European company with no flavor (just plain vanilla).
For us who are current F+ Rouge members, we have somehow been given the value of this card until March next year, so I don't think that they can remove any benefits.
I hope that we can continue the lounge access since it is a very good benefit of the program. Perhaps the new Platinum will give access to First class lounges rather than the regular lounges?
I'm wondering how much SkyTeam is trying to harmonize the different member frequent flyer programs? Delta has similar names for the different levels, and has just (again) modified it's program.