MOSCOW, September 2 /PRNewswire/ --

- ISDEF'2008, the Seventh Fall Conference, Will Take Place on September 
26-28 and Will Focus on the Analysis of the Present-Time Situation on the 
Software Market and the Business Challenges that IT Companies Face Today

ISDEF'2008, (http://isdef.com) the seventh fall conference, will take 
place on September 26-28 and will focus on the analysis of the current 
situation on the software market and the business challenges that IT 
companies face today. The event will take place in the Holiday Inn 
Vinogradovo hotel (Moscow). The conference was organized by ISDEF - the 
Independent Software Developers Forum, a non-commercial organization uniting 
independent software developers, registrars, software distributors and other 
representatives of the software industry.

Russian Federation Telecoms and Mass Communications minister's deputy
Dmitry Severov is expected to deliver his speech at the opening of the
Conference.

The traditional fall ISDEF conference has been held annually since 2002.
This year's agenda is aimed at owners, top managers and leading specialists
of IT and Internet companies, representatives of western and Russian
investment funds, marketing experts, representatives of PR services and
journalists. According to the estimates of the ISDEF board, the event will be
attended by about 500 participants. Presentations will be made by
representatives of the software market, government agencies and investment
institutions.

Participants of the ISDEF'2008 conference will discuss such topics as
marketing and software sales techniques, legal aspects of the operation of
software companies, financial investments in the IT market, as well as human
resource management and staffing issues, the work of PR services in IT
companies and certain aspects of business growth and development.

A report based the first independent research of the Russian retail
software market conducted on the ISDEF initiative will be presented at the
conference. The document will examine the characteristics of the current
state of the Russian retail software market, provide analysis of the role of
Russian software developers in the global industry, and summarize information
about the software market as a whole and its separate segments.

According to Alexander Lyskovsky, the chairman of the ISDEF board, "the
necessity of such a research became obvious a long time ago and the digest
became the first attempt to create a single database of the software market,
as the previous studies were sporadic. We plan to publish the digest annually
by the fall ISDEF conferences, which will allow all interested parties to
obtain up-to-date information about the situation in the software industry."

Digital River, (http://corporate.digitalriver.com/store/driv/
ContentTheme/pbPage.Homepage/sectionName.home ) one of the leading e-commerce 
companies in the US and Western Europe, will become the main sponsor of 
ISDEF'2008. Informational sponsorship will be provided by PR Newswire Europe, 
(http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/) the leader in the area of news and 
professional information distribution.

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Additional information regarding the conference, attendance and agenda is
available on the ISDEF website - http://www.isdef.org.

About ISDEF

http://www.isdef.org

Created in 2002, the non-profit Independent Software
Developers Forum focuses on representing and protecting the interests of
software developers and other players on the IT market. ISDEF unites
independent software developers, registrars, software distributors,
representatives of software archives and other members of the software
industry.

The main goals of the association are: improvement of the
software development and implementation process; growth and development of
the software e-commerce industry; and strengthening of the position of
Russian developers on the international software market.

ISDEF press service, isdef2008@isdef.org

Contact: 

    Tatiana Chernova,
    Director of Marketing Communications and PR,
    http://www.isdef.org,
    Cell.: +7-913-905-55-43; GMT + 6,
    isdef2008@isdef.org