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17 May 2010: Erlang Solutions awarded a Knowledge Transfer Partnership with the Kent Business School

Erlang Solutions is proud to announce that a third KTP project has been accepted by the Knowledge Partnerships Programme (KTP). This is in addition to the Reusable Components project that recently completed and the E-Learning/E-Certification Project that began in October 2009. This project will be a strategic marketing project together with the University of Kent, who have been our Academic partners in the other two projects and with whom Erlang Solutions has a strong partnership.

The main purpose of the project will be to establish and nurture a marketing orientation within the company and improve current marketing processes from a tactical and strategic perspective.

10 May 2010: Erlang Solutions Announces Opening of New Office in Stockholm, Sweden

Erlang Solutions Ltd has opened a new office in central Stockholm. The new office and and staff with extensive knowledge of Erlang will allow the company to better serve its large client-base in Sweden and worldwide. The expansion also provides an expanded training portfolio and facilities. It is envisaged that Erlang community will meet here at regularly organised Erlang User Group Meetings. In addition Erlang Solutions will be able to accommodate more students for internships, training and certification.

Erlang Solutions’ new office is located at Saltmätargatan 5, 113 59 Stockholm, Sweden and can be reached by phone at +46 - (0) 8 - 120 424 00

26 April 2010: Hans Nilsson joins Erlang Solutions as Senior Consultant

Erlang Solutions Ltd proudly welcomes one of the world's most experienced and capable Erlang experts into our team.

Hans Nilsson joined the Ericsson Computer Science Lab in 1988, the year after Joe Armstrong. For the first two years, he worked on the development of the highly regarded SICSTUS Prolog. In 1995 together with Claes Wikström, he developed the Mnesia DBMS and Mnemosyne query language, and then went on to study the budding Voice over IP field. He implemented his first Erlang-based SIP stack in 1998, while the standard (RFC2543) was not yet in stable draft. Hans presented his SIP-ISDN Gateway at the Erlang User Conference 1997.

After a couple of years developing a residential Ethernet switch at Ericsson, Hans returned to Voice over IP. He established himself as one of Ericsson's leading SIP experts, and was the company's representative in the GSM Association SIP Technical Expert Group. Meanwhile, he was the technical lead on a large product development project based on his SIP implementation. Before joining Erlang Solutions, he worked in a tiger team doing advanced prototyping with Erlang in close cooperation with the Intel Performance Lab.

Hans is also a key member of the ProTest EU Project, where his work on property-baseddata mining of packet trace logs and QuickCheck verification of SIP parsers have been highly influential. As Erlang Solutions is an active member of that project, his involvement will continue.

With the addition of Hans Nilsson, Erlang Solutions is able to offer world-class expertise in the Voice over IP field.

19 April 2010: Erlang Solutions at TFP 2010 and AMOOCON2010

We are proud to announce that the talk abstracts that Erlang Solutions' employees submitted have been accepted to TFP2010 and AMOOCON2010.

Michal Ptaszek, Consultant at Erlang Solutions Ltd. will be giving a talk on "ComputErl - Erlang-based Framework for Many Task Computing" at the Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming at the University of Oklahoma this May and Tino Breddin, Systems Engineer at Erlang Solutions Ltd, will be giving a talk on "Concurrent Programming with Erlang" at the AMOOCON2010 in June 2010.

If you are planing to attend any of these conferences, meet us there!

12 April 2010: Erlang Solutions and Quviq Cement Partnership to Deliver Test Driven Development to the Market

Erlang Solutions and Quviq AB, makers of the widely-adopted Quickcheck software tools, announce the formation of a partnership to deliver Quickcheck-based software tools and support services to the enterprise market. Erlang Solutions will be able to offer the full range of Quickcheck products and services to their enterprise clients. Quickcheck, is uniquely designed to test products and services that require high quality and reliability as well as an automated process.

The partnership formalises Erlang Solutions ability to provide the market with training, consultancy and support for the Quickcheck product portfolio that today covers Erlang and C based solutions.

16 March 2010: Evening School of Erlang in Krakow, Poland

On 23rd March 2010 the Evening School of Erlang begins in Krakow. The Evening School of Erlang is a series of Erlang classes which take place twice a week. It is aimed at full time students who are interested in programming in Erlang.

Classes consist of lectures and exercises, during which participants will be solving programming tasks. The first class will be held on 26th March. Dates of the next classes will be provided at the first meeting. During the classes, each participant should have his/her own laptop. Participation in activities is free for full time students.

At the end of the Evening School of Erlang each participant will be able to to take the Erlang Foundation Certificate, organized by Erlang Solutions.

22 February 2010: Call for Summer 2010 Internships!

Erlang Solutions regularly provides summer internships for qualified IT students. Many former interns have said that it was the best learning experience they have ever had. We are currently interviewing for this year's summer internships.

We are located in the heart of London. See contact us section. Applicants from all over the world are encouraged to seek the positions (we have 9 nationalities represented in our offices) but to apply, you have to be eligible to work in the EU.

The Internships run from June 1 until the end of August, and can continue through September, depending upon student availability and interest.

For more information and to apply, please visit our Jobs section here.

02 February 2010: Erlang Solutions at QCon London 2010

Erlang Solutions Ltd. sponsors QCon London 2010, hosts the track, gives the talks and organises Erlang User Group meeting there.

Qcon is an annual London enterprise software development conference designed for team leads, architects and project management. It gathers Java, .NET, Ruby, SOA, Agile, Erlang and architecture communities.

Erlang Solutions will be present at QCon on Friday, 12th March 2010, when Ulf Wiger (CTO of Erlang Solutions) will be hosting the Concurrency Challenge track. He will also give an introductory talk The Concurrency Challenge at 10:20 and a presentation on Death by accidental complexity at 4:30 pm.

Also, Francesco Cesarini (founder of Erlang Solutions) will be giving two tutorials: "Practical Erlang Programming" on Monday, 8th March and "Erlang/OTP System Principles" on Tuesday, 9th March. These are an all- day events, will start at 9:00 and finish at 16:00.

A day before, on 11th March 2010 from 18:30 until 20:30 Erlang Solutions organises special free London Erlang User Group Meeting at QCon. Everyone is welcome, even if you do not participate in QCon London 2010, just register here.There will be four talks:

Francesco Cesarini presents "Erlang community around the world"
Ulf Wiger talks about "Erlang in the Clouds"
Justin Sheehy will present "Introduction to RIAK" &
Joe Armstrong talks about "Erlang Libraries"

QCON 2010 will be held in The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, in London from 8th until 12th March 2010.

See you there!

Tutorials: March 8-9, 2010

Conference: March 10-12, 2010

When registering for the QCon, use the Discount Code "erlangug" and save £50 off the price!

14 December 2009: Erlang Training and Consulting's 10th Birthday – it's time to change our name!

2009 has been a huge year for us. Not only have we had an incredible year assisting companies on six continents with their use of Erlang but we have also organised 4 conferences, 10 Erlang User Group Meetings and started a KTP project in e-learning with the University of Kent. To add to all that - it’s also our 10th Birthday!

It all began 10 years ago on 13th December 1999, when our founder Francesco Cesarini decided to set up the first non-Scandinavian company to offer Erlang/OTP training and consultancy services. At that time, Erlang wasn't known outside of the 'Ericsson world'. Over the years the business grew dramatically. We have expanded geographically, with offices now in London (UK), Uppsala (Sweden) and Krakow (Poland) and now we employ 40 employees worldwide. The services on offer have also expanded significantly. We are now a one-stop shop for all Erlang needs, including:

Erlang training at all levels
Certification in Erlang
Provision of experienced Erlang contractors
Erlang consulting services
In-house systems development
24/7 support
Assistance with building Erlang teams.

A year ago we started running the Erlang Factory conferences. These are aimed at all levels of the development community including Architects, Programmers, Project Managers, Software and Platform Innovators as well as existing Erlang users. They are also designed to present Erlang to prospective users, Erlang newbies and anyone else interested in making use if the many strengths of the language. The Erlang Factory takes place twice a year - in the San Francisco Bay Area in March/April and in London in June. In 2009 we also took over the organisation of the Erlang User Conference in Stockholm – the oldest Erlang conference in the world, which has been held annually since 1994. Finally this year the first Erlang day in Krakow (Poland) called Erlang Factory Lite was held to grow interest in Erlang of the substantial technology Community in that country.

Great service, a customer-focus and skilled and experienced staff have been the basis of our growth over the past ten years. This will not change. However in 2010 we will do it with a new name! In order to better describe the breadth of our service offering, on 1st January 2010 we will become Erlang Solutions Ltd.

09 December 2009: Marcus Taylor at Strengthen Your Business

More than 50 representatives from the business world attended a special networking event at the University of Kent’s Medway campus. Called Strengthen Your Business, the free session on 25 November gave business leaders the chance to explore how their companies can team up with the University, and benefit from its commercial expertise and resources.

A variety of business people who had successfully worked with the University on student placements or Knowledge Transfer Partnerships spoke of their experiences, while others outlined the opportunities for collaboration in graduate recruitment and continuing professional development schemes. There was also the chance for individuals to network after the main talks.

Marcus Taylor, Chief Executive for London-based Erlang Training and Consulting, spoke of the strategic help his company had received with Knowledge Transfer Partnerships – a government-funded initiative that helps businesses develop their competitiveness, productivity and performance. ‘I’m not an experienced bid writer, but the University has a wealth of experience in this area and supported us wonderfully throughout the whole process – so much so that we’re thinking of applying for our fourth project,’ he said.

James Corbin, Placement Officer for the University of Kent, said it was a golden opportunity for businesses to find out about the resources on their own doorstep. 'The University is host to a wealth of knowledge that can often provide businesses with the solutions they seek,’ he said. ‘We’re convinced that firms who work with the University can gain a competitive edge.’

The event followed hot on the heels of the launch of the University’s ICE initiative, which took place at the Canterbury Innovation Centre on 17 November. ICE stands for innovation, creativity and enterprise, and is a project that aims to connect local, regional, national and international businesses to the University of Kent and to each other.

The Strengthen Your Business event at Medway was run in partnership with Thames Gateway Chamber of Commerce.