The Erlang programming language goes Open Source

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Dec 8, 1998

“Erlang is a programming language designed at the Ericsson
Computer Science Laboratory. Erlang is being released to help
encourage the spread of Erlang outside Ericsson.”

“We are releasing free of charge:

  • The entire source code of the current Erlang system.
  • The entire source code for Mnesia a distributed Database
    Management System, appropriate for telecommunications applications
    and other Erlang applications with need of continuous operation and
    soft real-time properties.
  • Extensive libraries of code for building robust fault-tolerant
    distributed applications

Erlang Website

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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