The challenge now facingthe new ruling coalition is to extend thesuccess of their information technology (IT) and outsourcing industries into the broader economy.
It is not the quality of its consumer-facing software or interface that will determine its success and insulate it from competition, as it has for Google, Facebook, and even Amazon.
Even facing such handicaps and quotas, immigrant success in business and investment helped pull Malaysia to extraordinary growth rates during the 1980s until recently.