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At this point, everyone has reported on the merger of OSCI and Accellera, two standards groups that operate in the EDA and IP domain. The principle output from OSCI has been the SystemC language and technologies surrounding it, such as the TLM 2.0 transaction level modeling interface. Accellera has been in existence a lot longer and is the home of several languages such as Verilog, SystemVerilog, PSL and some aspects of VHDL. More recently it has become the home for verification methodologies such UVM and, through its merger with the SPIRIT consortium, got into the area of IP description and management. So what are the advantages and disadvantages of having these come together under one roof?