What to expect from next Delphi versions? (good news to Firebird)

Extracted from the special edition of Blaze Pascal magazine:

Project Weaver (próxima versão do Delphi, já em beta)

• Main Themes
• User Experience
• Enhance Connectivity
• Documentation
• IDE usability
• Team Productivity
• Touch
• IDE – Insight (easy Keyboard access to almost everything)
• Improvements to DataSnap
• Firebird Support
• .NET AOP
• SCM Support
• Enhanced RTTI Support
• Attribute Support
• Seamless .NET and Native communication
• Windows 7 APIs and Direct 2D
• Full Support of SOAP 1.2 Clients

Project X

• Cross-platform Windows, Mac OS, and Linux
• Cross-platform component library
• DataSnap on all platforms

Project Chromium

• Quality enhancements
• Pascal Code Formatter
• Documentation of the OTA
• New Data binding model allowing binding to almost any property on a control
• More integration with the database tools.

Project Commodore

• 64 Bit native
• Full compiler, RTL and VCL support for 64 native
• Multi-Core. Multi-threaded applications.