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

This isn't my area of expertise, but I worked in Rails for about a year and I think ActiveRecord solved most of the DB Mapping problem. I realize it has a few issues, but I think it did a fantastic job.

I don't think his post took into account the possibility of the framework itself (in this case AcitveRecord/Rails) defining the database AND the Object Model, which--as far as I can tell--makes the problem go away.

Since this is the opposite of the first two responses (basically that the post is outdated) I feel like I'm probably not understanding something; If that's the case please correct me instead of just voting me down because I think there is an important point I'm missing.