The Motive brand was revived in 2024 by Lumine Group, after it bought Nokia's device management business unit.
Motive-powered e-service networks were being used in the online economy by companies as diverse as Compaq, Dell, EDS, Gateway, Hewlett-Packard, Intuit, Kmart, Merrill Lynch, Norwest, Oracle, Peregrine, and Target.
Both companies developed and sold remote management software for automating the installation, setup, and maintenance of residential gateways for home networking.
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The purchaser was Lumine Group, a Toronto-based holder of a portfolio of software businesses in communications and media.