<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On 12 Mar 2012, at 18:30, Edmond Begumisa wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font><br><blockquote type="cite">If you prefer vendor independence, you can be pretty confident that C is going to be supported by someone, so is Apache.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><br>Yes, I've come to the realisation that open and open-source development tools/infrastructure are the only ones that can guarantee you continuity, even if your business has to provide that continuity itself. Counter-intuitively, big commercial vendor names are actually riskier.<br><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>In practise you're absolutely right about this Edmond. But in practise, not many decision makers seem realise it.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><blockquote type="cite">My sense is that the Erlang/OTP ecosystem has become pretty strong in recent years - enough so that, if Ericsson bailed out, Erlang would continue. A few years back, that might not have been quite as good a gamble. (Comments?)<br></blockquote><br>I agree. I'm not big on "industry standards" (i.e. popularity) these days. But many businesses are, and not entirely for the reasons they think they are. Getting those on board with Erlang I think is largely a matter of playing the game the way other vendors play it -- lots of marketing, lots of PR, lots of spin all requiring lots of money. But Ericsson's in an entirely different game.<br><br></div></blockquote><br></div><div><br></div><br></body></html>