D@#n Nobeltec !!

Nobeltec navigational software:  I have been a faithful purchaser, regular updater, and user of this program since it first came out.  Oh, the money I've spent on almost every bell and whistle they have offered.  Then a few years ago the honeymoon ended.  I noticed when I went from twilight to evening mode, the red color they used wasn't very good.  It was too bright and not very scalable, so you couldn't really see outside effectively. It simply doesn't allow you to see anything outside the bridge windows unless you turn down the brightness of the monitor.  Then you can't view the nav program.  A true no win scenario.  Somewhere along this time-line Nobeltec came out with a new chart group called Vector charts.  Infinitely scalable with no pixilation.  There was one drawback I discovered after the fact.  You could not turn on the night view mode of the nav program, because it didn't support vector charts.  Vector charts only worked in day and twilight modes!  I travel around the clock and I travel from Washington State to the Bering Sea. So spending all this money for charts that are only good half the time was a real ripoff.  Last year Nobeltec came out with version 10 and everyone told us not to buy it as it was real "buggy".  Then I find out Nobeltec had been sold to The biggest Navigational software company in Europe, "MaxSea".  Rumors were rampant that Nobeltec wouldn't be around much longer.  I figured, this explains all the crumby updates and I'm wondering, what is going to happen? I call the new owners to get an answer.  Is the company going to close down and am I going to lose the thousands of dollars I've spent?  The new owners would not give me a satisfactory answer. They claimed, they didn't know what was going to happen.  Are you kidding me?  Time to start shopping for a new brand of nav software. Oh pooh!  There are many brands to choose from.  I have finally whittled it down to 2 of them.  Olex and ECC Globe.  Both of them start at about 5 or 6 thousand dollars for their "basic package" and top out at around 15 to 20 thousand for all the bells and whistles.  Whew, this just keeps getting better and better.  Now what do I do?  More to follow!