User:JohnPritchard/Web operating system 2

The term Web operating system has been used to describe a network application system for integrating web applications into a web based work space. These systems may be better described using the terms Web desktop or Webtop.

The term also has been used to describe catalogued or finite metacomputing and distributed computing systems as in the WebOS project at UC Berkeley, as well as others less notable.

The term Web operating system has been used in a broader sense to refer to a Web universal space inclusive of countless numbers of heterogeneous services. The object of this research has been the definition of particular services for the management and sharing of network resources.

In either usage, 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.

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The term Web operating system may be recognized as suggestive of the effect that large numbers of live Web Service applications may be expected to have on the computing world. En masse they are a force promoting a general shift in all applications away from single user computer concepts out into the open space of the multiuser data network.