Comparisons between Erlang and Scala abound due to the way they address concurrency issues. However, Erlang is often used with a stack named OTP, for which there is still undergoing work on
The Scala OTP project
Erlan's OTP stack consists of the following parts
* Mnesia - a distributed database management system, appropriate for telecommunications applications and other Erlang applications that require continuous operation and exhibit soft real-time properties.
* Orber - an Erlang implementation of a CORBA object request broker.
* SNMP - a SNMPv2 and v3 -extensible agent and manager, featuring a MIB compiler and facilities for implementing SNMP MIBs.
* Web server with support for dynamic content.
This post by Debasish Ghosh discusses why an offering like OTP in Scala is important to this JVM compatible language.
Read the post by Debasish entitled 'Erlang's concurrency model on the JVM - Can we have (at least a subset of) OTP in Scala ?'
http://debasishg.blogspot.com/2008/07/erlangs-concurrency-model-on-jvm-can-we.html