Delphi is a one trick pony. You should use it for writing desktop apps and this area is not that dynamic anymore. For most databases there are bindings or you

Delphi is a one trick pony. You should use it for writing desktop apps and this area is not that dynamic anymore. For most databases there are bindings or you can use ODBC drivers, for networking there is good enough third party library. Rest of the things you need to code by yourself. There is not vibrant conmmunity anymore, but you might be able to find some answers in old mailing lists and such.