On June 9–12, 2004 the eSP Consortium participated in the Fourth Russian Outsourcing & Software Summit (formerly Software Outsourcing Summit) held in St. Petersburg, in the Pulkovskaya hotel. ROSS is the largest event for software development companies located on territory of the former Soviet Union.

The Summit was organized by Fort-Ross – the Russian IT Consortium that unites major IT service providers from Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine.

Representatives of the eSP member company Eclipse SP conducted a series of meetings with the existing and new partners of the Consortium.

For the first time, the Summit was coupled with the LISA Forum Europe (Conference of the Localization Industry Standards Association). Therefore, ROSS 2004 participants had a free access to all LISA events.