This is funny. 30 people really voted this article up just because of "Erlang" in the title.<p>The article is from 1998 and the benchmarks were done on Win95. The CPU was a 200MHz Pentium MMX.
Of particular note in the outdated camp is that Java completely overhauled concurrency in 1.5 <a href="http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/concurrent/package-summary.html" rel="nofollow">http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/concurrent...</a> and they're using all of Java 1.1...
Yeah, I'm not a Java fanboy by any stretch of the imagination, but an 10+ year-old benchmark running on an obsolete JVM running on an obsolete OS, running on obsolete hardware (multi-core what?) are not horribly relevant to making technology decisions today.