The deal could be worth tens of millions of dollars as Oracle digs deeper into the cloud.

In a move that could shake up the nascent OpenStack cloud market, Oracle has partnered with Mirantis for OpenStack cloud technology. The partnership will bring commercial support for Mirantis OpenStack customers that want to deploy clouds with Oracle Linux and Oracle VM technologies. The partnership does not currently extend to certify Mirantis OpenStack to run on Oracle hardware. “It is hard to quantify exactly, but I believe that the near-term opportunity for both organizations around this partnership is in the tens of millions in the next 24 months,” Boris Renski, co-founder of Mirantis, told eWEEK. Mirantis is one of the top 10 contributors to the open-source OpenStack cloud project. It has its own OpenStack distribution, which was updated in June to version 5.0.