[soapbox] This is a combined British & French development (with EU funding), I do fear the damage Brexit do to this type of collaboration in the future. [/soapbox]
For proof of this look at Canada, a non-EU country which has been unable to collaborate in any meaningful way in the sciences. (hopefully obvious sarcasm)
Brexit's more akin to what would happen if Quebec seceded.
So much fear mongering. It was a referendum, decided by popular vote (a concept I hear is really catching on in American electorate politics).
Leaving the EU will impact British academic research that's funded by the EU or done in collaboration with researchers in the EU. This isn't really in dispute - even in the unrealistic best case scenario of the UK negotiating the exact same access to all of this they have now, it'll take disruptive time to do so.
https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/projects/brexit-uk-sc...
Maybe Oracle gave them the services for free in exchange for attaching their name to any resulting discoveries? If that's the case, I think that's a tradeoff i'm ok with. But ya, it is a little odd.