Domenico Laforenza (CNR) will give a keynote talk about XtreemOS at the 26th British National Conference on Databases (BNCOD 2009) to be held at Birmingham University from the 7th to 9th of July 2009.

The theme of BNCOD 2009 will be "Dataspace: the Final Frontier". Dataspace is a term recently coined to denote the expansion of the database topic into the broader area of managing large numbers of diverse but interrelated data sources of many varying forms.

D.Laforenza's talk is entitled "XtreemOS: Towards a Grid-enabled Linux-based Operating System" and present XtreemOS, as a first European step towards the creation of a true open source operating system for Grid platforms.