Embarcadero/CodeGear are hosting an online "CodeRage" conference with live presentations using MS Live Meeting, all week, presenting new features in Delphi 2009. This is important stuff, because D2009 now has full, core Unicode support. I've tuned in and out of four presentations during the day, and the best have been the afternoon sessions on Unicode and the RTL features. D2009 is probably going to be the basis for the next generation of the Image Markup Tool. There's no sign of academic pricing for D2009, though; I'm waiting for CodeGear's response to my query about this.