Last night at Chicago Python Users group (chipy.org) - we had the best talk ever! Two simplest servers written in Python and Erlang battled (individually) against thousands of Apachebenchmark requests. Nobody was sure about what the results would be ... it was a nail-biting death match. Who won?
https://github.com/gar1t/pyerl-concurrency-smackdown/blob/master/results/chipy-2011-09-08.org