Linux desktop have a long way to go in China (Score 1)

As someone lived in China for some 24 years (I have never been outside of mainland) and running a company specifically providing Linux-related service, I know the difficulty of having Chinese people use Linux desktop. The local government district CIO of the city my company is in (Xiamen) appreciate what Linux can do and asked his employee to use Linux, even with strong supporter like him it's very difficult to push Linux to governmental users. I discussed this topic with him a lot of times. The main problem is Chinese government IT sector and all related IT stuff have heavily rooted in Windows during years of using pirate copies of Windows and application runs on Windows. To show the difficulty I simply list things that will happen if government use Linux: 1) (I guess) more than half of the governmental website are no longer accessible by government employee. Including Chinese Ministry of Information website that used for public website registration and website of tax office; 2) the groupware used in 95% of Chinese governmental offices (mostly produced by local software vendors and called "office automation" software) are not usable. The leading governmental "office automation" software vendor in China is only several blocks away from my office and I know them well, their product still prompt "please upgrade your IE" if you access from Linux; 3) all web application and desktop application they used to use stop working immediately, including accounting software and the tax office web application which require each tax payer to pay tax online only if they have Excel installed (ActiveX technology is used on the web which calls MS Office components). The software for every governmental business, including workflow and online reports, are based on Office Automation software that use ActiveX control which in turn calls MS word for processing text on the web. 4) the main communication ways are no longer usable. In local government the mostly used communication methods are telephone, SMS short message and QQ message. The later two require software that only runs on Windows. By deploying Linux without carefully planning strategic move, you cripple government internal communication instantly. 5) government regularly release document, public or internal, in doc format. Most word document doesn't look exactly the same when opened with OpenOffice, especially in regarding to line-height and table layout. 6) all government IT service partners will no longer be able to serve government well before they regain the ability to develop on Linux. Most of these IT service partners never used Linux and many of them never seen Linux running. 7) training and support is almost impossible to catch up in current level of number of Linux experts existing. 8) non of the employees are used to Linux. CIO must fact the challenge from grass root and stop them from installing pirate copies of Windows when they obtained Linux PC. These are just some of the most important issue. This is not saying desktop Linux is impossible in China or Chinese government, it just mean there is a way to go and is challenging. Please feel free to further contact me for anything as I probably is one of these people closest to truth and have been trying push Linux Desktop in China for years (me myself use Desktop Linux since college). Reach me at [e-mail]