Well, here we are at May 2017 and VS 2017 has long since been released.
Problem is that it would appear the a certain Alex Keh either is stressed to death trying to release ....SOMETHING... or has simply left Oracle and is now working for some other company.
hence the total and complete silence on what is happening - no update to say they're running late or have hit a snag ( which MS always throws in by changing some deeply embedded things and not telling the competition about it ) or that they are simply not going to support 2017 because it's immature.
My guess is that Mr Alex Keh has left the building and no one else wants to play in this area.
By the way, the same issue exists with the release of support for Entity Framework Core 1.1. There is no connection to be had from Oracle. One has to go buy things from devArt to connect to Oracle from EF Core 1.1. Might really be a lot cheaper to switch to SQL Server in the long run.