I do feel bad for Charles, I have always liked him and Rick, and appreciate everything they have done on the good ole products.
In terms of Infopoopee, I have zero faith. To quote an old NBC show, they are like the Big Giant Head. Whole bunch of talk, fair amount of bluster, and much ado about nothing.
On a related yet sad note - I am liking what vB has done with their 3.5 release. It is not public yet and is due to have some bugs, but their AJAX integration and the fact that they DID FIX their post tracking issues...is very nice.
And of course FusionBB continues to look good for a 1.0 release.
Both in my mind are viable replacements for UBBThreads when it comes time...