Is ORM still the “Vietnam of Computer Science”?

Question

I read this post last night, and I noticed it was from 2006. I could go either way on the ORM, database thing, but I was just wondering if everything bad Jeff said about OR

Answer 1

A lot of web 2.0 companies are working on key-value stores. And all these companies have to go through the same painfull process of making it work.

If ORM is the "vietnam of computer science" then building your own key-value store is probably the "Iraq of computer science" :-)