As other posters have noted, Delphi is dead.
Story in eweek.com
This is not unexpected. Delphi has been on life support for at least four years.
Where Borland dropped the ball:
- Borland became unfocused in the late 90's as they tried to reinvent themselves as Inprise, disowning their superior (at that time) development tools.
- Borland moved to Dotnet and put a shell around MS's compiler. Delphi 8 was a complete failure. Users clamored loudly all over the net for updated support for Delphi 7 and Win32 apps.
- The award winning Kylix could have been the development environment that opened up Linux for the desktop. It should have been a slam dunk. But it was a complete commercial failure as Linux developers only downloaded the free version and completely refused to buy the commercial version. Kylix is the perfect gold standard example of the failure of commericial software in the open source and Linux business model. Kylix is now listed on borland.com as a "classic" product: Borland.com - Classic products
- Anders Hjelsberg went to Microsoft and created a better Delphi-like program (C#.Net) than Delphi!
So Delphi is dead. But don't fear. Delphi is very popular with outsourcers in India and Russia, so you still have maintenance options.
Long live C#.Net!