> Yeah, the inconvenient parts could probably be done in vbscript or > something on a windows box, pushing the results into the db through > odbc, but I thought this would be a common enough problem that > cross-platform tools would be available. I am using some java stuff on > the reporting side - maybe I should look there for conversion tools too. Yep, there a few java excel libraries like: http://jexcelapi.sourceforge.net/ - we are using this one for dumping into excel spreadsheets ... or http://poi.apache.org/