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Experts expect thousands more in the coming months.
Big Blue dominated the mainframe computer market but when PCs came on the scene, the company suddenly became irrelevant. MBA programs, Christensen says, face a similar challenge from e-learning and corporate ed. The Universiti Utara Malaysia, sick of the lousy maintenance and trouble-shooting help it was getting from computer vendors, decided to take matters into its own hands. Now, after building some 1,200 PCs, UUM plans to become a vendor. Students, the school says, will soon sell the campus-constructed machines to Malaysia's developing IT industry at bargain prices.