Tom, you make good points. I think I'm more in agreement with you that a certification body would be more appropriate than insisting upon just a CS degree and only a CS degree. And it should be an independent, non-vendor specify certification body too. Microsoft, Google, Apple, Cisco, IBM etc. certification is all good and so on and may be worth pursuing, but for standards compliant apart from any vendor's specify tools. I would be very interested in taking and passing such a certification. I want to test myself and see how well I do, or don't do. Secondarily it would be interesting to see how others do.

Your reasons for disagreeing with me on "the money side" as you put it, have me thinking. I'm not wedded to my opinion on this. 🙂