[erlang-questions] Re: Distributions of Erlang-coded SW on Windows (really)

[Dave Pawson]

2009/8/14 Benjamin Tolputt <btolputt@REDACTED>:

> And this is where I start to disagree. Not so much with your desire to
> get more helpful answer, but with the idea that applications not running
> on Windows boxes are somehow less important than those running on other
> platforms (if that was not what you meant by "real users" than I
> apologise).
>
> Erlang/OTP is, by design, a platform best suited to running servers.
> Client applications generally don't need to be running thousands of
> processes (with the possible exception of games - my particular
> interest), so the primary benefits are lost. Not that they aren't useful
> or such like, just that the benefits Erlang can provide give best "bang
> for your buck" on server architectures :)


I think Microsoft also sell servers?
More assumptions?

regards


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