BI Publisher Desktop on Linux??

Hi All,
I am planning to install OBIEE 11g on Fedora Linux 64 bit. And I use BI Publisher a lot, If I install OBIEE 11g on Linux then How can I make BI Publisher templates?? MS Word or Excel won't be on Linux??? What are your suggestions? is there any alternative??
Thanks,
DK

came to know that oracle clients don't work on the *nix systems...                                                                                                                                                                                               

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