;your real-estate (we call them estate agents) application, things like
&gt;getting the names of cities, states etc in a standard form and correct
&gt;spelling, not to mention the companies involved.

I agree.

&gt;There are tools that
&gt;will help with these data quality issues.
&gt;
&gt; &gt;    The company's web site went live for several months, using our
&gt; &gt; ontology-based database, and then they exhausted their
&gt; &gt; funding and went out
&gt; &gt; of business.
&gt; &gt;    Of course this is