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17th July 2009 - Link Blog

Popfly Shutting Down. Yet another reminder that building stuff on a closed-source platform (especially a hosted service) is risky business, even from a vendor as large as Microsoft. This certainly won’t help them make the case for Azure.

Posted 17th July 2009 at 9:32 am

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