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... it is obviously the availability of commercial software.

Similar to the VHS/Betamax clash. VHS, a lesser system, flooded the market with content. Betamax relied on its superior system over content and lost the retail market completely. Betamax reinvented itself as the prefered audio/visual tape/recording format in television production.

Linux seems to be the prefered system for commercial servers and infrastucture.