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Virtualbox, despite limitations, is still huge among gamers, bloggers and other casual users. It's not for most of us here but I don't see it dying off unless Oracle pull the plug on it.

If you're checking out Zentyal do look at the earlier versions as well 3.2 onwards, it has improved as an AD and Exchange server over time but a lot of nice stuff from the early versions was cut out as they shifted their focus from the gateway/infrastructure idea towards the more lucrative SBS...

The hardware's definitely not a fixed cost either way . I run several virtual machines and generally the linux ones run on about 1/4 of the resources of the windows ones. If everything was on windows I'd need a few more servers. I'd also need separate licenses for each virtualisation.

Load it up as a gateway server for a small office and keep it aside as a spare, or put it off-site as a failover MX. I still have a couple of old P4's for that sort of thing, as long as it's linux based they'll be fine.

Zentyal is a good option for those coming from a windows background, there's usually no linux experience needed. Version 4.2 gives full native compatibility for exchange clients with webmail and IMAP/POP3, domain control, and VPN. HA clustering was available on 3.4 but later removed, and 3.2 is...