Best of the blogs: One of the first things Martin Heller writes about the working copy he obtained of Microsoft’s Visual Studio ‘Orcas’ community technical preview is that “it probably wasn’t worth the effort this time around. I probably should have gone with my initial instinct and waited for the February CTP drop.” That’s not to say it doesn’t work. It does, and without messing up his Visual Studio 2005 installation. On the whole, of course, Heller chalks it up as a learning experience. SOA: For those of you amid the throes of SOA staffing plans, David Linthicum offers these guidelines, beginning with the fact that you’ll need an eclectic array of talents. Beyond that it’s really the who, the what and how many. Ah, but those categories are not so simple. The news beat: IBM demos dozens of research projects that focus on SOA and Web 2.0, including wikis, mashups, and social networking technologies. Bryan Lee, a Microsoft Zune executive is leaving the company. And as CEO Kevin Rollins departs from Dell, founder Michael Dell once again takes the helm. Technology Industry