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Solaris is typical "too little, too late" IMO.

"Solaris" + "too little" = irony

:)

Because it's no longer open source.

Or FreeBSD, or DragonflyBSD? Because part of the nature of software is that you get the most out of it when you're using what everyone else is using, and doing much the same thing as they're doing, so that the costs of figuring out how to do a given thing can be paid once and documented for everybody else to copy.

That counts whether you're using Windows or choosing to use something else - you'll never hear someone suggesting that you run Apache on Windows, as IIS is standard and what everybody else uses.

So linux's popularity on the cloud has nothing to do with FLOSS, and it's just the most common free OS out there.

Without being FLOSS, GNU/Linux never would've developed to the point where you could reasonably use it as a competitor to Windows in the first place.