Bowman and Brockman have put off plans to go to college for the time being in order to focus on their start-up. Pinpoint will sell its engine under an application service provider model. The company will host the database and customize the engine, but all front-end interfaces will stay on a customer's Web site. The engine is written in C and runs on customized Red Hat Linux machines. The service is hosted at Exodus' Sterling, Va., facility.
Pricing has yet to be determined.
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