> Kinda a blow for Azure...can't give it away..

To be fair, the author did say this:

>It is important to note that these issues are by no means specific to Azure; similar teething issues affect other Platform-As-A-Service providers such as Google App Engine and Heroku. When you are using a PAAS you are giving up a lot of control to the service provider. The service provider chooses which applications you can run and imposes a series of restrictions.

So it's a "blow" to Google App Engine and Heroku as well.