Alan,
I agree, that it's two completely different products. But from the past we know that AirNav only seems to have a very small DEV team that is working on all those different things (e.g. ShipTrax, server crashes, RadarBox24 and RadarBox). So to me it seems that AirNav still focuses on developing new products and not really on finalising a new version of the RadarBox software.
But I am not surprised about that anymore.
Actually I will be very surprised if there will be a new Radarbox version within the next 3 years. It's been already more than half a year since AirNav said they were going to fix the existing bugs as soon as possible. And it has been many years since those bugs have been reported.
In terms of bugfixing a product AirNav is the worst company I ever dealt with!
And honestly, it doesn't help me to read about very slow progress and bad excuses why there is still no new release. The only thing that would me is a fixed version of the software. I don't care about all the internal processes and why they are so bad.
And this statement "As one of the testers I would not agree to the release of a beta in such a condition." doesn't sound like there will be a new version soon. Sounds more to me as if the dev team doesn't really know what they're doing and making it even worse.
And if AirNav wanted to tell us something useful they would tell us what has already been fixed and which issues are still outstanding. So that we can get an impression of how many things still need to be done to be able to estimate how long that might take. Everything else is simply useless!