Reading Excel Files from Linux

"At the same time, the more prudent parts of the organisation have enormous back-end systems to manage the organisation's risk and monitor their positions. These systems are almost always on a wide range of platforms - Windows Server, Solaris, Linux - and have been in place for very long periods of time. One thing you can say with a lot of confidence is that these machines don't have Excel installed."

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