[erlang-questions] What are the cons and pros of using Erlang rather than java to develop server backend?

[David Baird]

On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Joe Armstrong <erlang@REDACTED> wrote:
> In Java you have lack of thread safety - I have no ideas how well Java runs on
> SMP machines nor if running multiple JVM is easy. Try googling "java+smp" or
> "java + thread safety" for more information

http://www.azulsystems.com/products/compute_appliance_specs.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azul_Systems

If you could get Erlang running on one of these babies, that would be cool!