Martin:

>> Some applications don't have "customers" but may be used to track something
>> specific to a locale. For example, a national census gathers a lot of
>> information that are specific to the country and hardly, if any, information
>> about foreign countries.

> Of course. I know not applications are simmilar to the ones that pay my
> bills. My concept is with local or very specific things in general. Using
> your example, I think that I get a contract to write a national census
> software, giving the complexity it can have, I'll probably try to make it
> flexible enough to sell it to another country. And of course, maybe in that
> particular case (inmense amount of data, lots of segmentation, need for
> multidimensional analysis), maybe I wouldn't use a relational database at
> all.

Enlarging the scope of the project may cost you the contract... You can't
always do what you want if you want to keep your profit margins!

Daniel