On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 20:54:35 -0800 (PST), Mike
wrote:

Hi everyone,

The situation is this: I am thinking of creating an input database for
mathematical program (MP) model in Excel. I am using MS-Windows as a
platform. However, someone somewhere will use same MP on Linux. So,
Excel database can't be read in Linux and OpenOffice is not allowed!

Unless there is an acceptable alternative to OpenOffice, we have to
explore other options. One potential is to create the database using
Python, programming language, and Python data files are readable in
both MS-Windows and Linux.

Is this the only way? Any alternative?

Thanks
Mike

You simply export the excel data in ASCII delimited database format,
and then filter it into any database you want in Linux, and you can pass
data into excel that way as well.

You do not have to use Python if you don't wish to. Use whatever you
want.sql.

So, where is the problem? Is it some huge, hard to manage data set?