https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/01/new-red-hat-partnerships-with-sap-and-oracle-could-bode-well-for-owner-ibm/

It’s been a good week for Red Hat, and by extension IBM, the company that owns it. That’s because Red Hat signed two partnership agreements this week, one with Oracle and the other with SAP. Those are some big players, and if it results in more deployments for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), it could be a big win for IBM.

Let’s start with Oracle, which frankly is a bit of a case of strange bedfellows. But the customer wants, what the customer wants. Oracle might have been giving into customer demand, says Holger Mueller, an analyst at Constellation Research, who says the deal is a win for both companies.