links for 2008-10-22

"Despite widespread awareness of the risks of the next flu pandemic, the world needs to drastically improve cooperation in preparing for what would be a major global crisis, a UN report said Tuesday."

"Cloud Studio with OSGi support is finally out. Now it is possible to upload your bundles into S3 based bundle repository and create an instance profile (similiar to "Run Configuration" in Eclipse). After profile is created, an EC2 instance that hosts OSGi framework with required bundles can be launched." – late with this, but it's interesting nonetheless.