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This is an article of speculation, and should be treated as such.
One of the features for the next version of Kylix could possibly be the ability to develop for ASP.NET or Mono, together with Apache, or other popular web servers.
How this could be implemented is by branching portions of the Delphi 8 IDE's HTML/ASPx designer into Kylix.
A method to design records so that they're allocated on a specific byte boundary, such as 16 bytes, 512 bytes, 4096 bytes, etc.