Another good explanation of what makes Erlang's concurrency / scalability design so compelling.

These guys make some amazing tools for Erlang/Mnesia to make running distributed applications on EC2 clusters easier.

Dave Winer: "Jim I look forward to someday introducing you to Doug. It would be an honor." That was about 7.5 years ago, thankfully Mr. Engelbart is still with us. And I *would* love to meet him some day.