There is a market for the the ZODB.

People are hugely interested in learning about graph databases. 

I thought that when I gave a talk on the ZODB, it was about pushing it as a commercial product. 
How many users, what is its performance, how big can the database be?

That is all wrong.  The reason that people come to a  talk on the ZODB, is because 
they are interested in learning about graph databases.  So my new talk title is 

“Introduction to graph databases using the ZODB as an example”

And then my focus is on communicating the concepts.  And then the stuff about performance, 
maturity, and number of users just comes at the end. 

And because my focus is now on the concepts, people end up with a much better understanding 
of the ZODB.  There was the example of the person who asked a few days ago about changing 
the class of an object.  The reason he had that problem is because he did not quite have the right
concepts.  "Read the code” is the advice we all get.  But much more friendly would be: “Here is a nice video 
about  the concepts behind the ZODB. “

I will be giving this talk again at PyCon DE.  The conference title is “ZODB the Graph Database for 
Python Developers. " If anyone is interested in giving such a talk at their local meetup, here re the slides. 
https://pythonlinks.info//presentations/zodbtalk.pdf <https://pythonlinks.info//presentations/zodbtalk.pdf>

It is also a good way to get a free admission to a local Python Conferences. 

And of course if enough people like the talks, some will start using the ZODB.  

Which would be good for all of us. 

Warm Regards
Christopher Lozinski

https://PythonLinks.info
tel: +48 12 361 3136
Skype: clozinski


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