ONE day Muliani Tedjakusuma received a visitor at her office. It was one of her students at the Institute Informatika Indonesia (Indonesian Institute of Information—IKADO) in Surabaya. The student offered her a standard computer with the specifications: Pentium 4 with 512 MB of RAM, VGA 128 MBA, NVIDIA 5200 FX. She considered the price very reasonable at Rp1 million. The English-language teacher did not waste much time considering the offer. It