<A HREF="http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2637280,00.html?chkpt=zdhpnew">eWEEK</A> reports IT Factory Inc. will announce that it's developing a collaborative application architecture for Microsoft's Exchange 2000 platform. According to the article, IT Factory officials said the decision is not an abandonment of its Lotus roots, but is instead a move to exploit some of the improvements Microsoft has made in Exchange.