Moscow, June, 21, 2004 - Restaurant «Panama» has become a place of a meeting for software developers, publishers and distributors. The meeting was organized by western software registrations Element5 (Share-It!) and Digital River with support of ISDEF association.

There was no officially declared occasion for meeting, but the reason was clear to everybody - recent acquisition of European registration Element5 by Digital River Company (USA). This event made anxious many participants of the Russian IT-market. Many Russian developers sell the products in Europe in United States through these companies, so they were afraid of changes in company’s structure because they frequently provoke the changes in business policy as well.

However the representatives of both companies’ management - Brant Pallazza (Digital River) and Manuel Heilmann, Christian Blume, etc. (Element5) - assured Russian developers, that they will benefit from the occurred changes. The acquisition allows improving the quality and the services' level of the companies.

The next day the representatives of Digital River and Element5 went to Kiev and, then, to Novosibirsk, where they are going to meet with other Russian developers.