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Hola,

Pues la verdad es que no sabría decirte Román. Sé que existen limitaciones, pero, creo que lo más sencillo sería mirar qué permiten hacer las versiones "arquitecto" y "empresa", puesto que la profesional lo incluye todo excepto lo que incluyen estas últimas.

La verdad es que para mis desarrollos me sobra y me basta, para qué voy a engañar a nadie: las bases de datos nunca han sido lo mío y así las he omitido casi siempre. Por cierto que nos estamos dejando una versión... existe también la versión "ultimate".

Delphi XE2 Professional

Delphi XE2 Professional is designed for developers building high-performance PC, Mac, GUI, touch-screen/kiosk, and mobile applications with or without embedded and local database persistence. Delphi XE2 Professional's ability to generate fast, native applications with rich user experiences makes it especially well-suited for ISVs who want to build highly-graphical "packaged" applications for Windows and Mac from a single source code base. Delphi Professional features include:

Cross-platform development for Windows, Mac and iOS using the FireMonkey application platform
64-bit development
dbExpress local database connectivity to InterBase® and MySQL
Expanded coding tools including Code Completion, live code templates, refactoring, command line tools, code formatter, Class Explorer, unit testing, and translation tools
Special edition bundled tools including FastReport, Documentation Insight, AQtime Developer, Beyond Compare Differ, Raize CodeSite Express, IP*Works, TeeChart, IntraWeb Personal, Rave Reports, and glyFX graphics library
Earlier version licenses and software for Delphi 7, 2007, 2009, 2010 and XE at no extra cost
Advanced debugging views and debugging of multi-threaded applications
Cloud computing integration with Amazon EC2 and Windows Azure
XML, Web Services, and advanced COM/DCOM development
Expanded VCL component set and VCL source code
UML code visualization, providing a visual representation of source code for easier understanding

Delphi XE2 Enterprise

Delphi XE2 Enterprise is designed for developers building rich, data-oriented client/server, cloud, and multi-tier PC, Mac, mobile and Web applications that work seamlessly with a wide variety of database servers and data sources. Delphi Enterprise's high-performance heterogeneous database server support is ideal for multi-vendor database server scenarios, or building turnkey applications that can work with a wide array of database servers. Delphi Enterprise includes everything in the Professional edition, plus the following for building client/server and multi-tier database and Web applications:

Database server connectivity to InterBase, Firebird, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, Informix, Sybase ASE, SQL Anywhere, and ODBC
DataSnap multi-tier application development
FinalBuilder Embarcadero Edition and command line tools for build automation
Full two-way UML modeling capabilities with multiple diagram types, synchronization between code and models, documentation generation, and design patterns

Delphi XE2 Ultimate

Delphi XE2 Ultimate is designed for software developers and teams building, managing, and tuning database-intensive applications with enterprise database systems. In addition to RAD application development, Delphi Ultimate includes SQL development, database change management, SQL profiling, and SQL tuning tools with DB PowerStudio®. Delphi Ultimate includes everything in the Enterprise edition, plus the following:

Write high quality SQL faster with Rapid SQL
Visually tune SQL with DB Optimizer
Simplify database change management with DB Change Manager

Delphi XE2 Architect

Delphi XE2 Architect is designed for developers and teams building data-intensive client/server, cloud, PC, Mac, mobile and Web applications with large or complex enterprise database systems. Delphi Architect combines data-driven rapid application development and heterogeneous high-speed data access with rich visual data modeling to help developers understand, design, and get the most value out of existing enterprise databases and data structures. Delphi Architect includes everything in the Enterprise edition plus powerful database modeling and design capabilities:

Reverse-engineer, analyze, and optimize databases
Automatically generate database code from models for forward engineering
Create logical and physical models based on information extracted from databases and script files
Work with highly readable and navigable diagrams
Advanced compare and merge with bidirectional comparisons and merges of model and database structures.

Yo pensaba que aquí se hablaba de lo que he puesto en negritas. Ahora bien, ya hemos dicho que puede que hayan ampliado esta restricción a componentes de terceros. Y, por cierto, ¿qué pensarán, si es así, los desarrolladores de estos componentes de terceros?

Aquí un enlace al PDF de la "Feature Matrix" de Delphi.