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According to the post the extent of Google discovering erlang is erlang style concurrency in Google Gears. To me erlang the language and erlang style concurrency are two very different things.

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Looks like blatant misinformation to me. As to sources:

* Amazon SimpleDB on Erlang (friend of a developer): http://www.satine.org/archives/2007/12/13/amazon-simpledb/

* IMDb on Java/Erlang (a job posting): http://www.computerjobs.com/job_display.aspx?jobid=2052172

* Gears on Erlang: N/A

I can confirm that SimpleDB is Erlang (with Berkeley DB as the persistence engine), or at least I can say that one of the lead developers of SimpleDB has told me that this is the case.

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