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> |   mind you, it's from the company that banned Erlang!)
>=20
> Really?  Is there a story behind that?

it was an "irrational" move.  :)

it's mentioned briefly in bjarne d=E4cker's thesis [1, chapter 7] and
joe armstrong's thesis [2, chapter 1] (both are well worth a read,
imho).  the ban actually applied just to ericsson's radio group, not
all of ericsson.

it's interesting that the ban occurred (perhaps just by coincidence,
maybe it was a different group) around the same time as the first
version of the mostly erlang based AXD301 switch was delivered.  the
AXD301 project is considered a major success [3].

[1] http://www.erlang.se/publications/bjarnelic.ps
[2] http://www.sics.se/~joe/thesis/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf
[3] http://www.erlang.se/publications/Ulf_Wiger.pdf