Dear Haskellers, I just got an inquiry from a research department head of a Korean company seriously considering to adopt functional languages because they heard that functional languages can do good at parallel programming on manycore platforms. They want to know what technologies out there implemented in functional languages, such as Erlang or Haskell, that can help them write more maintainable programs that are better at utilizing parallelism and avoiding bugs related to synchronization. They are also very interested in Cilk, as well as Haskell or Erlang. My first thought is that maybe Cilk would work better for them just because it would not be easy to recruit Erlang or Haskell programmers experienced in network, security, or concurrent/parallel programming. I myself can answer basic inquiries such as what libraries to look for to implenent such and so, but not able to give advice on large scale projects such as unified security solution package. So, it wouldn't be practical form them to launch a project without inviting an Erlang or Haskell expert in their domain as a project manager from overseas, which I don't think they are very willing to do. Are there Haskell consultants or Haskell experts on this subject, who believes that Haskell based approach might work better for them, or Haskell can be useful along with other approaches (e.g. DSL, prototyping, formal modeling of policies)? If so, I would like to recommend them trying contact you, and try my best to help communicating with them, if needed. They know English, of course, but may not be familiar with functional programming orlanguage-oriented programming jargons such as DSLs, oops, I mean language middleware :-) For your information: The company is a network security company whose main products are VPN and firewall appliances and their management software. Their research department is in search of better technologies to implement their future UTM (unified threat management) solutions utilizing the manycore platforms. In Korea, there are some research groups and few companies using OCaml, but almost no Erlang or Haskell communities. This company is preferring local researchers or consultants for advice or consulting, but there's no local group using Haskell seriously, as far as I know, even in research yet. That's why this person contacted me, just because I wrote a small tutorial on Haskell Server Programming while ago. P.S. If you happen to be a local Korean expert on this matter, sorry for my ignorance, and I'd be happy to forward their inquiry to you! -- Ahn, Ki Yung