You're absolutely right, SOA patterns may be implemented anywhere. What's nice about Erlang is you get a seriously battle-tested platform designed specifically

You're absolutely right, SOA patterns may be implemented anywhere. What's nice about Erlang is you get a seriously battle-tested platform designed specifically for this purpose, and good language support to boot. I will of course refer you to Virding's First Rule: Any sufficiently complicated concurrent program in another language contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Erlang. https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!msg/erlang-programming/yiGXcWdnzMo/ekT-SZHCq28J https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!msg/erlang-pro... Update: I wish you hadn't deleted your comment because it was insightful.