SMUOI is essentially an abstraction layer between any web project and its POSIX host.

It is written in PHP and is intended to provide an extra layer between developers' code and the resources on the host, incorporating:

• a security microcosm (an ACL-based mechanism modelled on that of UNIX)
• a mirrored database of project resource files, allowing for permissions control and meta association
• a web-based desktop-like CMS
• a framework for building web-based CMS applications
• a number of bundled applications for editing files such as text and images
• a simple and powerful web document templating system

On a web project's public side it does this as efficiently and as transparently as possible by preprocessing the project's scripts (its behaviour and level of invocation predetermined by environment variables): because of this it is able to offer limitless advantages to a web project in terms of its scope, development time and overall structural elegance with an absolutely minimal overhead.