Excel COM object in Unix Server

We generated the Excel file with Macros in NT server with Excel Installed. Is there is any way to achieve this in Unix Server?
Thanks in Advance
Ayyanar

There are a couple of ways to generate Excel files, regardless of the operating system. If your version of Excel supports the Excel XML file format, then you can use PeopleCode to generate text based Excel XML files. For this approach, you usually create a template from an Excel XML file and then insert placeholders for content (usually in the form of XSL, but it could be %Bind(:n) in an HTML Definition).
Another approach I have used is [Apache POI|http://poi.apache.org/].
I don't work with XMLPublisher, but it may support Excel output as well.

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