Re: 5 Nines
"Erlang has hot code loading. Its very clever."
Clever me hoop. TPF has had hot code loading and fallback for, hmmm, thirty years. Down to the individual component of a program level (function as it once was, alas, individual strand of spaghetti might be more appropriate).
So if you want to rewrite everything from the ground up in Erlang and never touch it, and write all the firmware and the smart switches and the NAS and the DR replication software and the firewalls and the front ends and the web servers in it too, that's be marvellous. Here's my budget for three years. And here's 12,000 servers and a mainframe written in thirty different by ten different national development centres. What, more then 3 years and more than the current annual budget?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
