It mentions Delphi 8, which is in effect Delphi .Net. It's basically a marriage of Delphi with the power of .Net. I personally don't like the corruption that it's done (My files are now huge .NET encompassed crap instead of nice small Delphi code) but that could have been my stupidity in 8 versus 7.
There's also no secret that one of the main guys that helped make Delphi also went on to help facilitate C# at Microsoft. Delphi and C# have a lot of similarities. It's almost eerie how similar they are and if you didn't figure that the prominent person did both, then you would think it's some fluke in nature but it isn't. C# draws heavily on a lot of what made Delphi such a cool language.
I'm slowly transitioning away from Delphi though I still love the fact that in version 7 my apps are significantly smaller than .NET's 20mb+ Runtime files. A MFC app generated by the AppWizard with 0 code would get compile to a statically linked file of about 2mb. A Delphi app with no code and just a window, mimicing the same MFC app would get me about 800k. Delphi won my vote with the only other language with smaller footprints being assembly, and I'm not about to go there (though I did try)
Version 8 is a whole other story. It is this marriage of .NET that I can't seem to break free from. Plus it uses 1.0 of the Framework and won't work with 1.1 at least the version 8 I used. They may have a service pack to 'upgrade' but I highly doubt it. Delphi has turned into this beast that I'm not really looking forward to taming, plus it's a good idea to jump into C# now while I can. The transition is incredibly easy mainly because of the many similarities between Delphi/Pascal and C#.