VMware officials said a more detailed explanation of how SpringSource will fit into VMware's future product plans will have to await the next earnings call, scheduled for October. In its previous earnings call on July 22, VMware indicated its revenues for the second quarter of 2009 were essentially flat at $456 million from the second quarter of 2008. With SpringSource, it will be looking for a way to get astride the currents of application development for cloud computing, and recharge revenue growth.Asked how VMware will avoid offending partners by venturing so far afield into application development, Maritz responded that the plan isn't to disrupt existing competitor's business so much as "to do what nobody else is doing."