[lioeters]

> it took until 2005 or so for Ericsson to confess that they had made a mistake

Impressive that someone was able to make that call and accept the situation, after investing half a decade moving to Java. Also says something about the staying power of Erlang and its paradigm, that the company was able to re-adopt it again.

[cess11]

Well, the IT bubble had burst and Sun was basically two thirds down the sewer at the time. Re-adopting something you had built and proven in the early days of cell phones probably looked like very reasonable risk management.

They kept using Java for some things, of course.