Web Services in Review
Personally, I believe that Web Services move us closer to a microkernel operating system. Basically, a microkernel operating system means that your computer has basic operating system services and everything else comes from a central, shared repository. With the widespread adoption of the World Wide Web, direct movement toward microkernels seemed to be placed on a back burner. Now that we can download widely distributed Web Services from the Web, we may be heading back toward a microkernel operating system in a circuitous fashion. A microkernel operating system can contain the BIOS, a bootstrap program, and networking drivers to get your computer connected to the Web, and then individual services can be run from a centralized ...
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