Erlang/OTP Released Publicly
Ericsson released Erlang as open source, including the Open Telecom Platform (OTP) which bundled Mnesia as a core component.
Significance
This public release democratized Erlang and Mnesia, making a powerful, fault-tolerant distributed database accessible to a wider developer community beyond Ericsson's internal projects.
Key facts
- Date
- 1996-02-01
- Type
- release
- Location
- Global (Internet)