What is Delphi 2009 ?

Delphi 2009 The fastest way to build native Windows applications

Make your team more productive with Delphi’s time saving IDE and tools Take advantage of drag-and-drop visual development and a powerful component library to speed development Easily connect with all your data across multiple sources and tiers Get power and speed with the powerful Delphi language, a fast compiler and full Windows API access Visualize your database structures with database design and modeling capabilities in the new Delphi Architect edition

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 See more of What's new in Delphi 2009 and How to Upgrade 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 Video: What's new in the Delphi 2009 IDE Video: What's new in the VCL in Delphi and C++Builder 2009

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

For more detailed differences between the editions, see the Datasheet or Feature Matrix