Gordon Guthrie wrote:
In Erlang the Application System is provided by a series of discrete VM?s running on a number of machines (typically more than one VM per physical machine). These VM?s expose a common cluster and communications semantics to each other. The ?universal driver? approach for encapsulating libraries and other non-Erlang add-ons is to wrap the hardware board or Java class or whatever in a set of libraries that expose those common semantics. [...]

Naturally the emergence of Application Systems will not avoid meeting some resistance. But, again, ?twas always so. The world once pullulated with shoals of ?knit your own operating system? men but they have gone the way of all flesh.

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In Conclusion

Do I, as a CEO, recommend that you use Erlang? No, but I recommend that you use an application system. This particular Kool Aid currently only comes in one flavour, Erlang, but I?m sure new ones will be along soon...

Maurício Linhares wrote:
As empresas de telecom mesmo deveriam estar usando muito mais Erlang, aqui no Brasil eu não conheço nenhum caso ainda e já trabalhei em alguns projetos, são coisas que precisam ser absurdamente escáveis e que precisam de bds e sistemas de arquivo/memória distribuídos, mas continuam sendo feitos com Java (e até Delphi ), porque o pessoal não sabe procurar soluções melhores.