Study On The Definition Of The Relevant Market In Software Industry Under The Condition Of Two-sided Market

The development of the network can be described as earth shaking.Now the network can be described as a sign of times.The information industry has been born in the course of the Internet.Information industry plays an important role in the development of economy.As the core of information industry,the software industry not only makes the economic structure advanced,but also brings expediency to our life.Software promotes social progress.Countries regard the software industry as priority.Every coin has two sides.The development of software industry brings a series of problems.This paper is mainly to investigate the monopoly problems brought by the software industry.In recent years,the monopoly of the software industry in the world continues to increase.The development of software industry requires technology and talent,it also need fair competitive market environment.Therefore,more and more economists and jurists begin to pay attention to the antimonopoly of software industry.The relevant market is an important concept in anti-monopoly law.The definition of the relevant market plays a key role in determining the dominant position of the market.All the countries will define the relevant market methods in anti-monopoly law.Because without the relevant market,many cases of monopolistic behavior can not be identified.Relevant market is mainly from the relevant product market,the relevant regional market and the relevant time market limit a certain extent.Identified whether the behavior of the involved enterprise restricts competition in this range.The traditional methods of defining the relevant market mainly include alternative analysis method and SSNIP test method.These methods are based on the one-sided market thinking.The software industry is different from traditional industries.The most notable feature is that there is two-sided market in software industry.Although the two-sided market theory has already appeared,there has been no attention until the bank card monopoly cases aroused the concern of academics.Software market is that the two-sided users need to trade through the platform enterprise.One-sided value depends on the number of users of the other side.As far as the software industry is concerned,the two-sided market is that the software platform to provide products and services application providers and consumers.Only there is need for the software platform between both sides of the user at the same time,the platform developers can achieve their value.The two-sided market characteristics of software industry have brought great challenges to the traditional methods of defining relevant market.For example,what are the new features of the software industry that different from traditional industries? What are the difficulties associated with the definition of the relevant market? Are the traditional methods of defining the relevant market applicable to the software industry? How to overcome these difficulties in practice? Throughout the anti-monopoly law,there is no country has clearly defined the relevant market of software industry.This requires us to explore and study in theory and practice step by step.I read many documents of domestic and foreign relevant market definition,and I intend to discuss how to define the relevant market in software industry under the condition of two-sided market.