10.01.2005 15:02:00

Motive Announces Support for IBM Autonomic Computing Technologies; Bui

Motive Announces Support for IBM Autonomic Computing Technologies; Built-in Intelligence and Automation Reduce Costs, Complexity Associated with Critical Business Applications


    Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

    AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 10, 2005--Motive, Inc. (NASDAQ:MOTV), a leading provider of management software, today announced it is collaborating with IBM to help customers reduce the manual labor and business interruption costs associated with supporting today's highly distributed business applications. Specifically, Motive will offer integration of Motive Profile, its application configuration management product, with components of IBM's Autonomic Computing Toolkit, a set of tools and resources designed for developers to rapidly deploy self-managing functions into applications and systems. This integration will help customers identify, analyze and repair configuration changes in their application environment more easily and cost effectively.
    As more complex business applications continue to proliferate within large organizations, the costs of supporting, configuring and maintaining these applications have also increased. According to Allen Bonde Group, a typical Fortune 100 company now spends in excess of $100 million annually -- or 18 percent of its annual IT budget -- on labor costs associated with application and systems management.
    "We are glad to have Motive join our industry initiative to promote autonomic computing based on open standards," said David Bartlett, director, Autonomic Computing, IBM. "Incorporating autonomic core technologies into products will provide customers significant cost and time savings, higher levels of security, reduced downtime, increased end user satisfaction and higher productivity rates."
    The integration between Motive Profile's application configuration management capabilities and technologies from the Autonomic Computing Toolkit will enable customers to reduce the configuration errors that affect application performance and availability while making their environments more self-managing. For example:

-- Motive Profile can leverage the Common Base Event format as an open standard for generating and gathering log file data from across distributed, heterogeneous environments to provide enterprise application teams with a single view of an application and its related infrastructure components; and

-- Application configuration changes detected by Motive Profile can automatically trigger corrective or preventive actions taken by the Autonomic Management Engine.

    The integration of these technologies is designed to increase the automation and intelligence of enterprise applications, and represents another milestone in the development of "self-healing" computer systems and networks.
    "IBM's vision of autonomic computing embraces the development of intelligent, open systems capable of running with minimal human intervention and adapting to varying circumstances in accordance with business policies and objectives," said Scott Abel, executive vice president of products at Motive, Inc. "We are excited to work with IBM to extend this vision to complex application environments, giving customers unprecedented visibility and control over their critical business applications, and the ability to effectively manage upgrade planning, application deployment and policy compliance."

    Availability

    Independent software vendors and enterprises today can obtain from Motive an integration adapter that enables the shipping version of Motive Profile to generate events in the Common Base Event format and a Resource Model that leverages the Autonomic Management Engine to support a custom application environment running on the WebSphere platform.

    About Motive, Inc.

    Motive, Inc. 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 40 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 planned integration of the companies' products and the expected benefits of those 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:(i) the technical challenges and time and effort involved in the integration, (ii) the continued cooperation between the companies, (iii) the ability of the software to produce results for customers, and (iv) the companies' ability to achieve broad adoption and acceptance of the products. 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.

    Motive and the Motive logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Motive, Inc. All other products or services mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective holders.

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CONTACT: Motive, Inc., Austin Cybele Diamandopoulos, 512-506-4272 cdiamand@motive.com

KEYWORD: TEXAS INTERNATIONAL ASIA PACIFIC EUROPE INDUSTRY KEYWORD: HARDWARE COMPUTERS/ELECTRONICS SOFTWARE NETWORKING PRODUCT SOURCE: Motive, Inc.

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