CodeGear announces Delphi 2007, PHP tool

Finally, after months of waiting, we are seeing the fruits of the spin-off from Borland, the new "developer company", CodeGear. Although I'm happy that there now exists a new version of Delphi, Delphi 2007 for Win32 and even a totally new product, called Delphi for PHP, I my criticize the silence during the first six months after after the announcement to sell the IDE tools. But history is history, and the products are here in March.

Of course, of these two products Delphi 2007 interests me most. It now fully supports Windows Vista, which is great -- including an enhanced set of VCL components for Vista use. Another interesting thing for web developers is the support for AJAX, but that could be something little too late, but once I get my hands on the final bits, I'll see. As for the PHP product, I'm not sure if I'm going to need one now that I've learned to love ASP.NET, but for some folks it could be just perfect.

Finally, a prediction. Although I didn't know a PHP product was in the works, I had seen all those PHP blog posts at CodeGear's blog, and it got me thinking that why would they blog about a "new" language (to CodeGear, that is) if something wasn't going on behind the scenes? Now then, they also talk about Ruby now and then, and thus I predict that a Ruby product will emerge in less than 18 months. Lets see if my prediction holds any value. :-)