Àðìñòðîíã • Implemented in Prolog • JAM Virtual Machine 1988-1989 • Distribution 1990 • BEAM development started in 1992 • BEAM replaced JAM in 1997 • Open sourced in 1998 • Earlier in 1998 Ericsson AXD301 switch with nine 9 • HiPE integrated into Erlang/OTP 2001 • SMP support in 2006
summer 2006 • rst public release, under MPL, in Feb 2007 • complete, conformant and interoperable implementation of the published AMQP spec • good throughput and latency • reliable and scalable • platform-neutral distribution, plus platform-specic packages and bundles • several extensions - HTTP, STOMP, XMPP, ...