Hi,

Just letting you know: There will be official Firebird support in Weaver
(which will be, most probably, branded as Delphi 2010, expected to be
released this year) based on what EMBT guys said at Delphi Live!
conference yesterday. In fact they said a lot more:

Project Weaver
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 <> 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, Quality
Quality, Quality, Quality
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.

Sources:

http://robstechcorner.blogspot.com/2009/05/delphilive-where-is-delphi-going.html
(see also the comments)

http://search.twitter.com/search?max_id=1802849621&page=1&q=%23delphilive
(you must scroll to older posts)

(more to come...)

Comments? Thoughts?

m. Th.


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