They won't change their mind about the name. They have been promising their users a "UBBThreads" version with a SQL backend for years now and have never delivered. This is their delivery. They couldn't develop it for whatever reason themselves, so they bought someone else's and are renaming it.
It's just business folks. Give them your credit card number and shut up - that's about all you are to them.
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