The Broomfield, Colorado-based company provides support and services around OpenLogic Enterprise, its library of 230 certified open source projects, and believes it is in a good position to provide open source expertise to large services providers.

No systems integrator we’ve spoken to wants to build the platform themselves, the company’s president and CEO, Steven Grandchamp, told Computer Business Review. None of them want to go build that business on their own.

The larger systems integrators have arguably been slow to react to the opportunities offered by the growth of open source software, presenting a gap in the market that specialists such as OpenLogic and SpikeSource Inc have been quick to fill.

While the likes of Unisys Corp and Atos Origin SA are now waking up to open source, Grandchamp does not believe they and other services vendors will usurp OpenLogic’s position. Instead, he believes they will prefer to partner with the likes of OpenLogic and find a way to pick out what they can add the most value to, he said, pointing out that OpenLogic is already involved in deals of that sort with significant customers.

Our message as an enabler is resonating really well, added OpenLogic’s director of channels and alliances, David Finkelstein, who noted that such relationships enable SIs to exploit OpenLogic’s experts and connections in the open source community without having to build their own.

OpenLogic has certainly benefited from those experts and connections itself since it launched in March 2005. While Grandchamp did not reveal specific financial details he did say the company grew 2,000% last year and is expecting growth of between 200% and 300% this year.

This it has achieved by targeting its OpenLogic Enterprise stack of 230 projects at the development teams of global 2000 companies, as well as its expert knowledge base, management suite, and associated services and consulting.

The company is now expanding beyond the US into Asia and Europe and will next week announce that it has signed a partnership with open source distributor Interactive Ideas to distribute OpenLogic Enterprise in the UK.

The deal will enable Interactive Ideas’ value-added resellers to sell the software and also use it to create their own customized stacks.