From Jay Fields…

Knowing that Erlang is a language designed to take advantage of multi-cores is enough to drive interest. Other questions that I would expect from CIOs are: Reliability? Nine nines uptime[1]. Maturity? It’s been around for 20 years. Who else is using it? Ericsson, Nortel, T-Mobile. The argument sounds compelling.

To those naysayers about using this language (you know who you are! I’ll be haunting you at night, especially today is Halloween! :),

The AXD301 has achieved a NINE nines reliability (yes, you read that right, 99.9999999%). Let’s put this in context: 5 nines is reckoned to be good (5.2 minutes of downtime/year). 7 nines almost unachievable … but we did 9. (http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/articles/erlang.html)

Rock on, Erlang!

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