interfacing to a remote excel app

[Brian Kelley]

One solution that I have used is a COM/CORBA bridge.  A fairly decent 
one is here:

http://www.octatec.co.uk/CB_sum.htm

But it still requires installation on the windows box.  Your goal is 
pretty easy actually if you can install python on the windows box.

Now for a completely off the wall suggestion.  Have you tried win32all 
and DCOM running under wine (linux win32 api)?  That might supply enough 
of the framework for you to get things running.  I'd be very interested 
if you can get this to work :)

Brian Kelley