One large application or many small applications?

[eluser]jleequeen[/eluser]
@jay

There are definitely ways in which these applications need to talk to each other. Particularly, some of the model between the apps could be shared. My databases right now are MySQL databases. Not real big either. 4 separate DB's with anywhere between 10-30 tables in each. Some of those tables would obviously be shared so if I refactored the DB I'd probably be looking at maybe 50-60 tables.