________ Is Designed to Shield Programmers from Having to Build

question 19

Multiple Choice

________ is designed to shield programmers from having to build applications for different underlying operating systems,particularly in heterogeneous,distributed environments.

• A) Middleware
• B) Malware
• C) Spyware
• D) Grayware
• E) Peopleware

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Definitions:

Quarterly Dividend

A distribution of a portion of a company's earnings, decided by the board of directors, to shareholders on a quarterly basis.

Tax-exempt Institutional Stockholders

Institutional investors that are exempt from paying taxes on dividends received or gains realized from stock holdings.

High Dividend Policy

A strategy by which companies pay out a significant portion of their profits in the form of dividends to their shareholders.

Percentage

A mathematical concept that represents a fraction of 100, commonly used to quantify the relative size of one quantity as a fraction of another.