Motive, Inc. to Discuss Emerging Digital Home Standards at Consumer Communications and Networking Conference

At the IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking
Conference held today, Motive, Inc. (NASDAQ:MOTVE) will share unique
perspectives on the role of home gateways in the delivery of triple
play services, and the importance of standards in delivering those
services cost-effectively.
   As part of a panel focused on the Home Gateway Initiative,
Motive's Heather Kirksey will discuss the organization's technical
guidelines for remote device and service management, and as well as
the relevance of emerging digital home standards from various other
industry groups such as DSL Forum, UPnP Forum, and Digital Living
Network Alliance (DLNA). Ms. Kirksey will also outline steps that
service providers can take in order to ensure interoperability and
manageability for the next-generation of home gateways and other
triple play devices.
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WHAT:
Industry Panel, "The Home Gateway Initiative" (MP2-1 Panel MI)

WHERE:
IEEE's Consumer Communications and Networking Conference
Harrah's Las Vegas Casino & Hotel
3475 Las Vegas Blvd South
Las Vegas, NV

WHEN:
January 9, 2006
4:20 - 5:50pm PST

MODERATOR:
--  Stan Moyer, president, OSGi Alliance and executive director
    Telcordia Technologies

PANELISTS:
--  Paolo Pastorino, HGI & Telecom Italia

--  Roger Clark, BT

--  Klaus Milczewsky, Deutsche Telekom

--  Heather Kirksey, Motive
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   For more information, visit: http://www.ieee-ccnc.org/index.htm.

   About the Home Gateway Initiative

   The Home Gateway Initiative (HGI, http://www.homegateway.org) was
formed in March 2005 to boost the market of home communication
services to the millions of broadband customers served by its founding
members. The initiative, with already more than 55 members (as of
September 2005) that are worldwide key players in the Home Gateway and
Broadband Home domain, is driving the development of specifications of
broadband residential gateways supporting the delivery of multi-play
services.

   About Heather Kirksey

   Heather Kirksey directs strategy and execution of Motive's device
management and digital home standards initiatives, including work
within the DSL Forum, UPnP Forum, Digital Living Network Alliance and
Home Gateway Initiative. She currently serves as co-chair of the
DSLHome Technical Working group within DSL Forum and DSL Forum liaison
officer to the Home Gateway Initiative. In these capacities, Heather
has been editor for numerous DSL Forum documents including WT-121:
TR-069 Implementation Guidelines, WT-123: TR-069 Interoperability and
Conformance Test Plans, and WT-131: ACS Northbound Interface
Requirements, and also helped organize first industry-wide TR-069
plugfest. Heather joined Motive from BroadJump, where she worked in
business development managing CPE partnerships and product integration
efforts.

   About Motive, Inc.

   Motive, Inc. (NASDAQ:MOTVE) has pioneered a unique approach to
designing management services into Internet-era networks, systems and
applications. Motive's software makes complex products and services
self-managing, reducing overhead costs and optimizing customers'
return on investment. Companies worldwide have relied on Motive's
software to provide a range of problem remediation and configuration
management tasks for more than 45 million endpoints. Founded in 1997,
Motive is headquartered in Austin, Texas, and has offices in Europe
and Asia. For more information, visit www.motive.com.

   This press release contains forward-looking statements that
involve risks and uncertainties relating to the rapid deployment of
triple play services, the need for customer service and the expected
benefits of our products. Actual events or results may differ
materially from those described in this press release due to a number
of risks and uncertainties, including, among other things: our ability
and our customers' ability to achieve broad adoption and acceptance of
our products, the ability of our software to produce results for our
customers' subscribers, and the compatibility of our software with
hardware and software platforms that are used by our customers and
their subscribers now or in the future. Additional information
concerning these and other risk factors associated with our business
can be found in our filings with the Securities and Exchange
Commission, which are available at www.sec.gov. Statements included in
this press release are based upon information known to us as of the
date of this release, and we assume no obligation to update any
information contained in this press release.

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of Motive, Inc. All other products or services mentioned herein are
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