Accessing Excel worksheets when OBI EE is on Unix?

Hi, is there any straightforward way to have OBI EE access Excel worksheets when OBI EE is running under Unix? If this was Windows, I'd just create an ODBC connection to the Excel file and everything would be fine. But I'm not sure if this is possible when the BI Server runs on Unix.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions!
Scott

Also, can't one upload the worksheet to the server and use Heterogeneous Services to make its contents available to the database and thence to OBI ?
For example, see the first part of:
http://oraclebizint.wordpress.com/2007/09/04/owb-10g11g-heterogeneous-data-sources-excel-mysql-and-sql-server/
Another method is to keep the forecast data locally in Excel - you know that an awful lot of people will be using Excel to put out reports !
Then get the actuals data into another sheet, either using the OBI EE plugin, or just by downloading the results from web OBI EE Answers.
Then tell Excel that it always gets its actuals from that sheet.
This does not make the forecast data available in OBI, but it does enable the forecasts
and actuals to be stitched together without involving the back-end team.
So will be suitable for some folk.

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