Comment by stevesimmons

I learnt Python via Zope in 2000, and attended the Zope Conference in Python that year.

Joined JPMorgan in 2010 to work on Athena, and immediately had a real sense of deja vu... Athena's Hydra object db (essentially an append-only KV store of pickles) felt like a great grandchild of Zope's ZODB.