[antiRepublicrat]

Another thing: the ECMA. I had never heard of them until I was researching the standards for Microsoft's .NET CLI

You use something somewhat standardized by them all the time. JavaScript and JScript (Microsoft) are both implementations of ECMAScript. ECMA is a European computer standards body that a while ago started to go international.

[Señor Zorro]

I realize that (although I didn't know that it was they who standardized it until after I was doing some initial research on the .NET underpinnings). The overall thrust was, are their certifications really worth much of anything?