Some of the Slashbot commentary suggested that this would only happen if IBM bought Rational. I'm not sure whether to be happy or sad about this possibility, to be honest. If Microsoft decides to invest money towards the Delphi side of things (or some equivalent Object Pascal thing) they could end up with a killer product. The only problem with that, though, is that it is competing with Visual Basic, so they might decide to can it instead. Hope not!

Hey, who knows, they may even turn Delphi back over to Anders Hejlsberg again . Seriously, though, I'd only worry about it if it actually happens. Until then, it's just speculation.