History of Erlang

Early 90s

Erlang is developed by Ericsson to solve:

Time to market
Reliability & scalability
Increased productivity

1998

Erlang is released as Open Source
Distribution on erlang.org managed by Ericsson
No marketing budget allocated

Late 90s

Erlang is used in key Ericsson products:
Telecom switches, Mobile Infrastructure

Now

Erlang is quickly expanding outside of Ericsson/Telecom
Banking, Finance, E-Commerce, Telecoms, Messaging, VOIP
Facebook, Yahoo! Amazon, Github, 37signals, T-Mobile