:User:JohnPritchard/Web operating system 4
The term Web operating system has been used to describe a network application system for integrating web applications into a web based work space {{cite web
| url = http://www.youos.com/html/static/manifesto/what.html
| title = What the heck is a web operating system?
| author = youOS
}}.{{ cite web
| url = http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.malaysia/browse_thread/thread/36b9497d0a66a191/12c717c6defb41d6?lnk=st&q=%22web+operating+system%22&rnum=5#12c717c6defb41d6
| title = Press release for the extinct 'myWebOS.com'
}} These systems may be better described using the terms Web desktop or Webtop.{{ cite web
| url = http://blogs.zdnet.com/web2explorer/?p=178
| title = What is a WebOS?
| author = Richard MacManus
}}
The term also has been used in the academic literature of Computer science in the field of metacomputing to describe network services for internet scale distributed computing, as in the WebOS project at UC Berkeley,{{ cite web
| url = http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/61096.html
| title = WebOS: Operating System Services for Wide Area Applications
| author = Amin Vahdat
}} and the WOS project {{ cite web
| url = http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/benlamine97problems.html
| title = Problems Of Computing On The Web
| author = Slim Ben Lamine and John Plaice and Peter Kropf
}} {{ cite web
| url = http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/kropf99overview.html
| title = Overview Of The WOS Project
| author = Peter G. Kropf
}} {{ cite web
| url = http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/202697.html
| title = Running Scientific Computations In A Web Operating System Environment
| author = Ioana Banicescu and Herwig Unger
}} {{ cite web
| url = http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/508728.html
| title = Towards a Web Operating System
| author = Peter Kropf and John Plaice and Herwig Unger
}} {{ cite web
| url = http://diuf.unifr.ch/pai/research/welcome/
| title = Automatic Software Configuration for the WOS
| author = Simon Schubiger and Béat Hirsbrunner, Department of Informatics, University of Fribourg
}}.{{ cite web
| url = Simon Schubiger
| title = Automatic Software Configuration
| author = http://diuf.unifr.ch/pai/publications/2002/paper/Schubiger-PhD02.pdf
}} In both cases the scale of the web operating system extends across the internet, like the web.
Common to all uses, a Web operating system is distinct from Internet Operating Systems in that it is independent of the Operating system as the software abstraction layer over computer hardware.
WebOS Project
WOS Project
In the context of the WOS project, the web operating system is conceived of as a dynamic or ever changing collection of services.
{{quote|The WOS (Web Operating System) is a joint project of four universities that aims at developing an operating system for the Web on top of existing operating systems and making the native services internet wide available. The rapid development and heterogeneous nature of the Web has as a result the impossibility to develop a complete catalog of all the resources and services available. The key to the successful implementation of the WOS is the ability for multiple different versions of the WOS to interact in a meaningful manner. Therefore a distributed software configuration management technique has to be found to provide this kind of interaction. Because of the changing nature of the Web, software components must be found on other criteria than just URI (Uniform Resource Identifiers). Automatic software configuration will optimize the selection of resources for a user request depending on interfaces, user preferences, cost and other parameters.|Simon Schubiger and Béat Hirsbrunner|WebCom: Automatic software configuration for the WOS }}