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10 May 2010: Erlang Solutions Announces Opening of New Office in Stockholm, Sweden

Erlang Solutions Ltd., the global leader in Erlang services, has opened a new office in central Stockholm.

The new office and and staff with extensive knowledge of Erlang will allow the company to better serve its large client-base in Sweden and worldwide. The expansion also provides an expanded training portfolio and facilities. It is envisaged that Erlang community will meet here at regularly organised Erlang User Group Meetings. In addition Erlang Solutions will be able to accommodate more students for internships, training and certification.

“As part of our ongoing expansion, Erlang Solutions is pleased to open its office in Stockholm. The strategic location of the office, modern training facilities as well as new employees allow us to better serve our extensive client base,” said Marcus Taylor, CEO of Erlang Solutions. “ We look forward to training courses, additional evening classes, the School of Erlang and Erlang User Group Meetings taking place there.”

“Erlang Solutions is well known among our customers for our culture of meeting the needs of our customers. Establishing an office in Stockholm will enable better service for businesses located there.” added Francesco Cesarini, founder of Erlang Solutions.

Erlang Solutions’ new office is located at Saltmätargatan 5, 113 59 Stockholm, Sweden and can be reached by phone at +46 - (0) 8 - 120 424 00

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About Erlang Solutions:
Founded in 1999, Erlang Solutions Ltd. is an international company specialised in the Open Source language -Erlang and its middleware OTP. Erlang Solutions solves all your Erlang needs - Training, Certification, Consulting, Contracting, System Development, Support and Conferences. Erlang Solutions expert and certified consultants are the most experienced anywhere, with many having used Erlang since its early days. With offices in the UK, Sweden and Poland and clients on six continents, Erlang Solutions is available for short and long term opportunities world-wide.

Erlang Solutions' headquarters is located in London, UK with branch offices in Krakow, Poland and Stockholm, Sweden. For more information, visit www.erlang-solutions.com

26 April 2010: Hans Nilsson joins Erlang Solutions as Senior Consultant

Erlang Solutions Ltd, the global leader in Erlang services, proudly welcomes one of the world's most experienced and capable Erlang experts into our team.

Hans Nilsson joined the Ericsson Computer Science Lab in 1988, the year after Joe Armstrong. For the first two years, he worked on the development of the highly regarded SICSTUS Prolog. In 1995 together with Claes Wikström, he developed the Mnesia DBMS and Mnemosyne query language, and then went on to study the budding Voice over IP field. He implemented his first Erlang-based SIP stack in 1998, while the standard (RFC2543) was not yet in stable draft. Hans presented his SIP-ISDN Gateway at the Erlang User Conference 1997.

After a couple of years developing a residential Ethernet switch at Ericsson, Hans returned to Voice over IP. He established himself as one of Ericsson's leading SIP experts, and was the company's representative in the GSM Association SIP Technical Expert Group. Meanwhile, he was the technical lead on a large product development project based on his SIP implementation. Before joining Erlang Solutions, he worked in a tiger team doing advanced prototyping with Erlang in close cooperation with the Intel Performance Lab.

Hans is also a key member of theProTest EU Project, where his work on property-baseddata mining of packet trace logs and QuickCheck verification of SIP parsers have been highly influential. As Erlang Solutions is an active member of that project, his involvement will continue.

“I had the pleasure of working with Hans Nilsson for more than a decade, and have seen him excel as a researcher, developer, team leader and mentor. Hans is one of the most experienced and capable members of the Erlang community, and I am extremely pleased that he has chosen to join the Erlang Solutions team.” said Ulf Wiger, CTO of Erlang Solutions Ltd.

With the addition of Hans Nilsson, Erlang Solutions is able to offer world-class expertise in the Voice over IP field.

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12 April 2010: Erlang Solutions Ltd. and Quviq AB. Cement Partnership to Deliver Test Driven Development to the Market

Broad enterprise demand for fault-free products and services causes rapid uptake of sophisticated, automated testing.

Erlang Solutions Ltd, the global leader in Erlang services to the enterprise and Quviq AB, makers of the widely-adopted Quickcheck software tools, announce the formation of a partnership to deliver Quickcheck-based software tools and support services to the enterprise market.

Erlang Solutions will be able to offer the full range of Quickcheck products and services to their enterprise clients. Quickcheck, is uniquely designed to test products and services that require high quality and reliability as well as an automated process.

“Without Quickcheck we would not have been able to achieve the success we have enjoyed to date”, said Marcus Taylor, CEO of Erlang Solutions. “Erlang Solutions uses Quickcheck in its test driven agile development process, a key feature of this is Quickcheck’s ability to perform automated testing enabling huge productivity gains. To date it has been used successfully in projects in the automotive, telecoms, financial, messaging and banking sectors. The best part of my working day is checking the progress of our projects on the dashboard.”

The partnership formalises Erlang Solutions ability to provide the market with training, consultancy and support for the Quickcheck product portfolio that today covers Erlang and C based solutions.

“Quviq and Erlang Solutions have a unique opportunity to provide a broad spectrum of industries with the tools to deliver high quality products and services that will be easy to maintain throughout the product cycle,” said John Hughes, Quviq’s founder. “We are jointly working on new features and enhancements that will be announced as the year evolves”.

“Recently we delivered a carrier grade email system for millions of users on an extremely aggressive schedule, and QuickCheck played a vital role,” said Scott Fritchie Senior Software Engineer at Gemini Mobile Technologies, Inc. “In this project, the client application was developed by another company. QuickCheck's controlled randomness gave us test coverage beyond what any single client application might attempt.”

“Complex networked applications are notoriously difficult to test with traditional methods,” said Justin Sheehy, CTO of Basho Technologies. “QuickCheck, with its approach to property-based testing, gives us a much more tractable way to build assurance into products like our Riak distributed database.”

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About Erlang Solutions Ltd:

Founded in 1999, Erlang Solutions Ltd. is an international company specialised in the Open Source language -Erlang and its middleware OTP. Erlang Solutions solves all your Erlang needs - Training, Certification, Consulting, Contracting, System Development, Support and Conferences. Erlang Solutions expert and certified consultants are the most experienced anywhere, with many having used Erlang since its early days. With offices in the UK, Sweden and Poland and clients on six continents, Erlang Solutions is available for short and long term opportunities world-wide.

About Quviq AB:
QuviQ was founded in May, 2006, by John Hughes and Thomas Arts. Quviq’s testing tool Quickcheck supports automatic test case generation from specifications, and when tests fail, speeds fault diagnosis by finding minimal test cases that provoke each bug. QuickCheck’s libraries support a wide range of specification styles, ranging from simple logical properties, through state machine models, to relational trace properties—and Quviq’s experts can develop tailor-made libraries on demand to tackle awkward testing problems. With an office in Gothenburg, Sweden, and close ties to Chalmers University, Quviq builds automated test tools for use in a wide variety of industries. Quite simply, Quviq offers better testing, at lower cost, through advanced technology.

Media Contact:

Quviq AB
John Hughes
Founder & CEO
john.hughes@quviq.com
+46 70-756 37 60

Erlang Solutions, Ltd.
Marcus Taylor
CEO
marcus@erlang-solutions.com
+44 7736180 404

30 March 2010: Erlang Solutions, Ltd. and Basho Technologies, Inc. Enter Broad Partnership to Deliver Scalable, Fault Tolerant Applications to a Global Market.

Enormous opportunity as relational database model begins to fail under the strain of Big Data and the Internet.

Erlang Solutions, Ltd., the leading provider of Erlang services, and Basho Technologies, the makers of Riak, a high-availability data store written in Erlang, today announced they have entered into a multi-faceted partnership to deliver scalable, fault tolerant applications built on Riak, to the global market. Erlang OTP, an Ericsson open source technology, has found application in a new generation of fault tolerant use from companies like Facebook and Amazon.

“Erlang Solutions constantly seeks out new technologies and services to bring to its clients,” said Marcus Taylor, CEO of Erlang Solutions. “With Basho, we add not just the Riak software, but a partner to help us build an ecosystem of Erlang-based high-availability applications.”

The partnership has three major components: 1) both companies develop and support training and certification, 2) Erlang Solutions architects, load tests, and builds Riak-based applications for clients, and Erlang Solutions provides Basho clients with training, systems design, prototyping, and development services.

“Erlang Solutions is globally recognized as the business thought leaders in the Erlang community,” said Earl Galleher, Basho Technologies Chairman and CEO. “Our current and future customers now have access to a new tier of professional services and we help Erlang Solutions push Erlang further into the mainstream market.”

With this partnership, Erlang Solutions now represents Basho Technologies in Europe for services and distribution. The teams will focus on high growth markets like mobile telephony, social media and e-commerce applications where current Relational Database Systems (RDBMS) solutions are struggling to keep up.

“Look at the explosive growth of SMS IM traffic,” said Francesco Cesarini, founder of Erlang Solutions, “and the cost to scale traditional infrastructure. Basho’s Riak helps clients contain these costs while increasing reliability. An ecosystem of high-availability solutions is forming and the relationship between Erlang Solutions and Basho Technologies will soon expand to include other partners and richer solutions.”

About Erlang Solutions Ltd:

Founded in 1999, Erlang Solutions Ltd. is an international company specialised in the Open Source language -Erlang and its middleware OTP. Erlang Solutions solves all your Erlang needs - Training, Certification, Consulting, Contracting, System Development, Support and Conferences. Erlang Solutions expert and certified consultants are the most experienced anywhere, with many having used Erlang since its early days. With offices in the UK, Sweden and Poland and clients on six continents, Erlang Solutions is available for short and long term opportunities world-wide.

About Basho Technologies:
Basho Technologies, Inc., founded in January 2008 by a core group of software architects, engineers and executive leadership from Akamai Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: AKAM) is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Basho produces Riak, a distributed data store that combines high availability, easily-scalable capacity and throughput, and ease of use. Riak's high availability data store means that applications built using Riak remain both read and write available under almost any operational conditions and without requiring intervention. Available in both an open source and a paid commercial version, Riak provides unprecedented read- and write-availability to web, mobile, and enterprise applications. Current customers of Riak include Comcast Corporation, Sonian Networks, and Mochi Media.

Media Contact:

Basho Technologies, Inc.
Earl Galleher
Chairman & CEO
earl@basho.com
cell: 910.520.5466

Erlang Solutions, Ltd.
Marcus Taylor
CEO
marcus@erlang-solutions.com
cell: +44 7736 180 404

08 February 2010: Erlang Training & Consulting Ltd celebrates 10 year of business as the leading Erlang services provider and becomes Erlang Solutions Ltd

Erlang Solutions proudly announces the company’s 10th anniversary. Over the past decade, Erlang Solutions has evolved from a training and consulting company to a provider of end-to-end Erlang services. And the trend continues today as Erlang Solutions is still expanding not only into new lines of business but also into new markets.

When the company was established in London in 1999, Erlang Solutions was the first non-Scandinavian company to offer Erlang/OTP training and consultancy services. At that time, the programming language Erlang was not known outside of the Telecoms sector..

Over the years the business grew dramatically. Erlang Solutions has expanded considerably, with offices now in London (UK), Uppsala (Sweden) and Krakow (Poland). The services on offer have also expanded significantly - Erlang Solutions now a one-stop shop for all Erlang needs including: training, certification, consulting, contracting, system development, support and conferences. Over this period awareness of the Erlang language has also expanded and today Erlang is increasingly known and used worldwide with customers in many of the key industry verticals such as Telecoms, Banking, Finance, Logistics and Utilities as well as being a significant force in instant messaging.

“Our success lies in our ability to consistently solve clients needs across many domains and industries thanks to our team of skilled staff and the inherent virtues of Erlang/OTP. Todays market is looking for better ways to deliver products and services to the market. More and more companies across the spectrum of industries are turning to us for solutions” said Marcus Taylor, the CEO of Erlang Solutions.

“When I started the company” added Francesco Cesarini, the Founder of Erlang Solutions.“ 10 years ago I knew that one of the key values we had to focus on was the people and their knowledge. Today we have over 40 dedicated staff and partners all over the world who share this knowledge of Erlang/OTP. The next 10 years will be very exciting as the adoption accelerates and Erlang is recognized as the solution to many of the problems facing new and existing providers of products and services.

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01 February 2010: Erlang Training and Consulting Rebrands as ERLANG SOLUTIONS

Erlang Solutions - the leading international provider of Erlang services announces its re-branding from Erlang Training and Consulting at the beginning of 2010.

Erlang Solutions, an international company specialised in the Open Source language -Erlang and its middleware OTP, has changed its name at the beginning of the year to reflect its evolution from a training company to full service provider. The new name defines the company’s commitment to provide a full and integrated range of services from training and certification to consulting and contracting as well as system development, support and conferences.

“After 10 years the market has changed and companies now want one provider of end-to-end solutions to fulfill their requirements” said Francesco Cesarini the Founder. of Erlang Solutions. “As we have continued to expand our lines of business, we were aware that the old name did not accurately reflect them in customers’ minds. We are confident that Erlang Solutions encompasses everything we have to offer current and new customers”.

"As Erlang Solutions we will continue our proud tradition of supporting the Erlang community, but we will not be resting on our laurels and expect many new exciting developments as the year unfolds. ” adds Marcus Taylor, the CEO of Erlang Solutions.

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04 January 2010: Nasza Klasa launches NKtalk in cooperation with Erlang Solutions

Nasza Klasa (NK), Poland's biggest social networking site, with over 13 million active Users, launches its new web-based IM service, called NKtalk with the help of Erlang Solutions Ltd.

When creating the NKtalk messenger service, Nasza Klasa decided to use Erlang – the programming language increasingly used when creating high-performance , distributed, fault-tolerant systems such as those used in Instant Messaging. NK chose Erlang Solutions Ltd. as its development partner due to their profound understanding of the Erlang language and their ability to solve complex technical issues.

Experts from Erlang Solutions provided Nasza Klasa's IT Team with professional training in the use of the Erlang language as well as the Erlang Open Telecom Platform (OTP) and Jabber/XMPP technologies. Erlang Solutions also implemented a large part of the system along with the integration of NKtalk with the nasza-klasa.pl portal and to scale the new system. Thanks to the Erlang technology NKtalk is now able to handle the huge traffic volume generated by users and their communication.

"Thanks to the cooperation with our partner, over the past few months NK developers were intensively trained in the Erlang programming language. Cooperation with the company that has all the needed know-how in our field of interest has proved to be very fruitful. The results of our cooperation will soon be visible on the NK website"- says Tomasz Białobrzeg, CTO of Nasza Klasa.

"The NKtalk project posed many technical challenges as well as very tight deadlines because of the marketing plan behind the launch. Our two companies rose to the challenge and proved that with the right team, technical choices and clear vision, it is possible to deliver robust high-performance solutions" - adds Marcus Taylor, CEO of Erlang Solutions Ltd.

The first and the most important phase of work on NKtalk has been completed. Currently the messenger is being tested by approximately 500,000 users. When the beta test has been completed, the official premiere of NKtalk will take place.

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