Principles of Service Oriented Operating Systems

Grid middleware support and the Web Services domain have advanced significantly over recent years, reaching a point where resource exposition and usage over the web has not only become feasible, but an actual commercial reality. Nonetheless, commercial uptake is still slow, and certainly not progressing the same way as other web developments have been taking place this is mostly due to the fact that usage is still complicated and restrictive. This paper will discuss a new approach towards tackling grid-like networking across organisational boundaries and across different types of resources by moving main parts of the infrastructure to a lower (OS) level. This will allow more intuitive use of Grid infrastructures for current types of users.