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Mobile robots show their skills.

On a Lego-chassis the mobile end-device storms forward and, after a short consideration,  moves the yellow tennis ball to his equally constructed opponent with the strategical better position -and: goal! A surprising and pleasurable sight in the exhibition halls of the LinuxTag. But where is the connection to business process management.

The football playing Jalimo-robot is a project to show the visitors of the LinuxTag the activities of the tarent company for software development and it-consulting. Recently, the tarent established the open source initiative called Jalimo (Java Linux Mobile) in which context high-quality java-applications are created on linux-based mobile end-devices.
The company that is located in Bonn develops platform independent solutions for complex business and administration processes.

"What is possible with our platform and the standard application?" That is the question that the developers wanted to answer in an illustrative way and let their playful and technological ambitions run wild.
The result was a mobile robot because it presents complex process structures in a very good way. The Jalimo robots were created by using a N800 internet tablet from the tarent's business associate (since 2006) Nokia, a Lego mindstorms construction kit as well as sound and ultrasound sensors. They can communicate with each other, solve problems and play football - due to intelligent problem solutions, that let communicate all components with each other and that use the potentials of networking to a maximum.

What looks that playful is in reality way more than the typical idea of someone who is constantly fiddling with something. It is the exact image of the developement solution strategy of the tarent GmbH. In more than ten years of effective methods, the company creates made-to-measure customersolutions on open platforms. Their commonly useable results are themselves free software and are constantly added to the growing lixid platform, that is the basis for all solutions of tarent. "The open source business is about konwledge efficiency and about using the technological potentials to a maximum by networking and communicating." says Boris Esser, manager of the tarent GmbH. Or, like Aristotle already detected: The whole is more than the sum of its parts. When you know how to do it right.

Within the series of lectures on the LinuxTag in Berlin, Sebastian Mancke and Michael Kleinhenz will both give lectures about java on linux based mobile end devices and about enterprise workflow management with BPEL.

On an extra area on the LinuxTag, the jalimobs are shown and are developed further in an open workshop.

Additionally, the jalimob can be seen in action on [www.youtube-jalimob.de].