Korea. Before that, he was a research professor at Ewha Womans University and a technical staff at Oracle, Korea. He received a Ph.D degree from the Computer Science Department of Seoul National University in 1999. His research interest is in flash-based database technology. He can be reached at swlee@skku.edu Cite this column as follows: Won Kim and Sang-Won Lee: "On Flash-Based DBMSs: Issues for Architectural Re-Examination", in Journal of Object Technology, vol. 6, no. 8, September-October 2007, pp. 39-49 http://www.jot.fm/issues/issue_2007_09/column4 Previous column