PeopleSoft Inc. on Tuesday is expected to announce additional support for its business software on International Business Machines Corp products that run the free operating system Linux.

"We're teaming with IBM to deliver PeopleSoft applications in an Linux environment, which gives our customers greater choice," Rick Bergquist, PeopleSoft's chief technology officer, said in a statement.

PeopleSoft's business software automates such things as accounting, purchasing and customer service. Its users already can operate some programs with Web browsers, Web servers and database servers that run Linux.

With this latest announcement, PeopleSoft adds Linux support for Web application servers, or software that helps users build, run and integrate Web-based applications.

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