He should have a look at Filemaker -- it's an active product with customers that need help (last time I checked) and owned by Apple, so it's not going anywhere

He should have a look at Filemaker -- it's an active product with customers that need help (last time I checked) and owned by Apple, so it's not going anywhere for at least a bit longer. The dev environment is at a similar level -- I think, I'm not that familiar with Delphi.