When your VP Engineer says we DONT NEED AN ORM.

Raw sql queries are just fine and he even can help with that!!

It's only monday.

I'm still dealong with pre-ORM code! Ha add to make an SQL transformer to make the queries work with 2 different SQL dialects (until the switch over).

procedures only

The only ORMs I'd use are Microsoft Entity Framework and RealM
Never had trouble with them, though I don't know for large projects, the ones I've worked on are considered mid sized ones. Don't know about projects as big as SharePoint

Depends on scaling.
If you're expecting a twitter-size service, ORMs can cause you rather severe problems.

But for small projects, why wouldn't you use an ORM?

@Ashkin exactly, why?

@lostpirate The added overhead.