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right, I gathered from the first inane response that you believe anything that pulls data is an ORM.

That's never been how the acronym was defined. The reason you're now trying to define it that way is because the only other alternative is to admit you're wrong.

"what if that subsystem is pulling data from AS400?" -- still an ORM!

"what if that subsystem is pulling data from an INI file?" -- still an ORM!

"what if that subsystem is pulling data from an IOT device? via the MQTT protocol" -- still an ORM!

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The difference between an ORM and what I'm describing is that the subsystem I'm describing actually abstracts the where and the how, an ORM _is_ an implementation detail. This is why sprinkling ORM code throughout your codebase presents a problem, it's akin to re-implementing the code to pull out of an INI repeatedly instead of putting it behind a function with a single implementation.

Now go away.