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-Erlang is not just a language. 
-Ericsson open sourced it's software switching infrastructure, somewhat like AT&T Bell Labs  
-open sourcing Plan9. It's different because Ericsson actually produced real products using  
-Erlang.  
-Erlang is based off of Joe Armstrong's thesis - "Making reliable distributed systems 
-in the presence of software errors".  
-The current download contains: 
-* the src code with targets for WIN32, linux and vxworks 
-* pre-compiled binaries for win32 and linux 
-* system libraries with built-in 
- ** easily distributable, configurable ( in-memory or disk ) database system called Mnesia 
- ** native bindings to mysql and postgres 
- ** SNMP V1, V2 and V3 agents,  
- ** a database config that exposes tables as SNMP tables 
- ** 3rd party contrib libs for - jabber, ldap, radius, ldap, nfs 
-* bindings to C, C++, Java, Tk 
-* good documentation including how to extend it with examples 
-* a couple of books that discuss erlang implementations of non-trivial distributing computing objects 

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