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)