Q&A: Christopher Painter, who serves as the principal deputy chief of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section, speaks with the IDG News Service in this interview about what was accomplished at the last G8 24/7 High Tech Crime Network meeting last week in Rome, as well as current and emerging cybercrime trends. Columnists’ corner: “Why would Microsoft be interested in the former Vintela [now owned by Quest], which provides management tools for Linux?” asks Neil McAllister in Managing Linux, the Windows way. There are, indeed, several possible reasons, including the potential “to keep Linux right where Microsoft wants it — at the back of the server room.” The news beat: IBM sues Amazon.com for patent infringement concerning presentation of applications in an interavctive service, data storage in an interactive network, presentation of advertising in an interactive service and several others. Oracle offers to buy MetaSolv, a provider of software that manages the provisioning of VoIP, IPTV and VPNs. And two trade associations call for changes to international rules on data transfers. Technology Industry