The next version of Delphi will be called Delphi XE... and there is a third (and last) preview video available online, focused on datasnap and REST support. Specifically, as you can read in the announcement at http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/40768, the new video covers:

• Cloud computing access to Windows Azure services
• Quick deployment to Amazon EC2 cloud servers
• Extended multi-tier development with new wizards, new protocol support, encryption and compression, cloud servers, and PHP/JavaScript clients
• The inclusion of RadPHP XE, IP*Works and IntraWeb, which provide new choices for Web app development

 Here is the video from YouTube (you can find it also at http://www.embarcadero.com/rad-studio-xe-preview):

Plus there is more, probably deserving a separate blog post, but here it goes:

• "Sons of Kahn: The Apocrypha" by Verity Stob is yet another great story about the recent changes to the Delphi road map. It mentions David I, Allen Bauer (#34ed saying "Let he who hath never slipped a project cast the first pointer."), and many others you can recognize. It is very funny as usual. Read it on The Register at http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/23/verity_stob_kahn_apocrypha/. The snippet I love best is the song of the Delphi developers:

MS lost its mojo, 
Jobsy mashed up Flash, 
Oracle's strangling Java, 
But Delph will never crash!

• The Delphi Live conference is ongoing. Read http://tech.turbu-rpg.com/174/delphi-live-rad-studio-xe-launch for a first description of the keynote. I won't post about the event simple because I'm not there.
• SD Times has an article on the new RAD Studio at http://www.sdtimes.com/EMBARCADERO_ADDS_PHP_TO_RAD_STUDIO/By_Alex_Handy/About_EMBARCADERO/34576.
• Finally, in the preview page you can sign up for some online seminars, but also attend those that will take place around the world. I'll be in Paris on September 9th and in Rome and Milan later in September.

That's all for this condensed post, I've finished packing, will leave tomorrow early morning for a week in Denmark. Offline. Likely no update to blog, probably no comments approved.