Drupal and multiple sites

I've started browsing through the book and this isn't clear (maybe it gets answered there somewhere--if so, sorry for the bother).

The book, so far anyway, keeps talking about the Drupal installation and "Your site" like there's a one-to-one relationship. This raised the question for me: If I want to host multiple sites (www.mysite.com and www.mycustomerssite.com, etc.) on my server, do I need multiple installations of Drupal?

Thanks.

Drupal has a lot of different

Drupal has a lot of different ways of doing this:

http://drupal.org/node/346385

If you want to share the same database and codebase, you only need one installation. You can install as many as you want and have each installation be a different site as well.