Oracle SCM Future?

Given the fact that Jdev 10.1.3 was released for developer preview with CVS as the default SCM tool and given my not so favourite experience when it comes to the integration between Jdev and Oracle SCM it would be nice to get some clarity regarding future product directions from Oracle regarding the integration between Jdev and Oracle SCM.
As I see it there are 2 possibilities:
1. Oracle SCM is considered mature enough and the integration of oracle SCM with JDev is satisfactory to Oracle. Oracle SCM is used mostly by larger enterprise JDev developers which are the smaller percentage of the total developer community. As a result, it is not extremely important to gain market share with these developers so Oracle SCM was not released as part of this JDev developer preview. (I somewhat tend not to favour this possibility).
2. CVS is the prefered route for SCM purposes even as far as Oracle is concerened. As a result, it was released as the default SCM tool with the JDev developer preview.
In addition, Oracle is trying the capture the open source Java development market in which CVS is the de facto standard hence the CVS decision.
In other words what I am really asking is: Should we start making plans to move to CVS or should we stick it out with Oracle SCM since it is planned to stay around for the foreseeable future? This question is important particularly in light of the fact that our Java code base is relatively small at the moment but is expected to grow substatially in the next couple of years which would potentially make any change to the SCM tool a complex issue.
Any response from Oracle would be appreciated.
(The opinions and speculations in this post are mine and do not represent anybody else's views)

Today Oracle has no SCM strategy.
Within JDeveloper by exapmle, CVS, SUBVERSION or third party tools are recommended.
We as IKAN focus on Oracle customers that look for alternatives for Designer modeling and SCM.
CWD4ALL (Designer modeling) is available as a JDeveloper extension. (www.cwd4all.com)
SCM4ALL complements CVS and SUBVERSION and offers build, deploy, approval and lifecycle mgt. (www.scm4all.com).
You can download both products for a one month free full trail.
We are in the process of integration our SCM4ALL product, through CVS or SUBVERSION with the Oracle Development Suite (Forms, reports, JDeveloper,..), the Oracle database and Application server.
We want to offer Oracle a full SCM solution that can trully compete with IBM's RAD and Clearcase family
When interested, just let us know
kind regards,
René De Vleeschauwer
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