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The paper contains a full account on the extension of the notion of Šilov boundary of an operator space, a fact which Prof. Hamana announced a long time ago. Letting fixed a unital \(C^*\)-algebra \(A\), the Šilov boundary of a linear subspace \(X\) of \(A\) is described as a closed two-sided triple ideal of the triple subsystem of \(A\) generated by \(X\). By a triple subsystem we mean any norm closed linear subspace, which is closed under the triple product \([x,y,z]:= xy^*z\), while a two-sided triple ideal of \(T\) is a linear subspace \(I\) such that \(TT^*I+ IT^*T\subset I\). If a linear subspace \(T\) of \(A\) contains the unit, then \(T\) is a triple subsystem if and only if it is a \(C^*\)-subalgebra (and in this case its two-sided triple ideals are just the usual two-sided ideals). Consequently, the construction in this paper agrees with that done by \textit{W. B. Arveson} [Acta Math. 123(1969), 141-224 (1970; Zbl 0194.15701)] in the more restrictive case when \(X\) is a selfadjoint subspace of \(A\) which contains the unit.