From January 2015, yes that is less than two weeks away, Office 365 customers who currently use SharePoint Online Public Website will be able to do so for about two years. New customers to Office 365 after January 2015 will have to look else where.
So for new customers I’d suggest looking at other vendor offerings such as Sitecore (http://www.sitecore.net/) or see what you can do on Azure Web Sites (http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/websites/)
See http://support2.microsoft.com/kb/3027254 for more details.
SharePoint Randy 