I am in the anlysis/study phase of designing a database for 4 different Eduation companies(institutions) for their E-commerce.
We have initially been considering 4 different database and thereby applications to support these. That would be thequickest way to produce some kind of data model (with the time frames they expect to see the site up and running). Now we have some requirements only from 1 of these companies. So our initial design has to go with these. But now there has been a strong opposition to this approach from the management. They want a single database repository(Oracle 8i) and a single application to support these 4 Sci Ed companies. These 4 companies will of-course have a diffent customized look and feel for thier Web sites, but the functioanlity, will be very much the same.
The companies will have different product sets and therefore different product attributes to begin with.
Could you kindly shed intelligence as to what approach I could take.
