New Delphi 2009 Opens a World of Opportunity

Delphi 2009 helps you meet the challenges of the rapidly expanding global market, and expand the reach of your applications to more users. But that’s just the beginning.
Give your user interfaces a fresh, updated look with new and enhanced VCL controls.
Build applications that handle global data with ease using new Unicode support throughout the IDE and VCL
Move your code into the future with the addition of generics and anonymous methods to the Delphi language
Build powerful, efficient and secure database applications by separating data and business logic with new DataSnap
Get new insight into your database structures with data modeling and visualization in the all new Delphi Architect edition
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Delphi is your solution for rapidly building high performance Windows applications

Delphi® is the premier development environment for software developers and database application developers who need to rapidly deliver high performance and easy to maintain software applications. Use the powerful Delphi IDE with its visual design surface, extensive component universe and powerful heterogeneous database framework to visually design and deliver applications in a fraction of the time. The powerful Delphi language and compiler deliver high performance and access to all the power and speed of native Windows development. Delphi also provides a comprehensive set of editing, refactoring, and debugging tools in a complete solution focused on making development faster and easier.
Delphi 2009 Editions
Delphi 2009 Professional
Delphi 2009 Professional is the high performance Windows visual IDE and framework designed for building packaged, desktop, and workstation applications quickly and easily. Delphi 2009 Professional combines the productivity of visual development, an extensive component universe, powerful object oriented programming, an ultra-fast optimizing native code compiler, complete Windows API support, and flexible local database connectivity. Delphi Professional features include:
Local database connectivity to InterBase®, Blackfish™ SQL and MySQL
Blackfish SQL deployment on systems with 1 user, 512MB database size
VCL for the Web with limit of 5 connections
Broad support for Delphi 2009 from tool and component vendors


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Delphi 2009 Enterprise
Delphi Enterprise edition includes everything in the Professional edition, plus the following for building client/server and multi-tier database and web applications:
Database server connectivity to InterBase, Blackfish SQL, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, Informix and Sybase
DataSnap multi-tier database application development
Blackfish SQL deployment on systems with 5 users, 2GB database size
VCL for the Web with no connection limit
Additional UML modeling capabilities

Delphi 2009 Architect
Delphi Architect edition includes everything in the Enterprise edition, plus powerful database modeling and design capabilities:
Reverse-engineer, analyze, and optimize databases
Create logical and physical models based on information extracted from databases and script files
Work with highly readable and navigable diagrams
Automatically generate database code from models for forward engineering
Advanced compare and merge with bidirectional comparisons and merges of model and database structures