Interesting, well all personal politics aside, touting vbulletin as "yesterdays news" compared to phpbb shows nothing but ignorance and an obvious inability to understand the difference in functionality between the two. There is simply no comparison, any webmaster that actually works on and with message boards knows this. For anyone not familiar with some of the differences have a look here
phpBB • View topic - phpBB vs vBulletin for a break down.