Middleware is software used to: a. connect processes running on different computer systems across a network. b. integrate a computer's operating system and its applications. c. connect a computer system to the network. d. support agile process redesign. e. provide best business practices to ERP systems.

a. connect a network.

Explanation:

Middleware sits in between the front end and the back end. The back end can be like a database residing on the server, which can be on the cloud or at any computer systems across the network, however, it is always on the server, and the front end or the client request is on the user's computer. Hence, it connects the processes running on different computer systems across the network. Hence, Option A is correct.

So it does not connect a computer system to a network, and nor does it provide the best business practices to ERP Systems, and it does not integrate the computer's operating system and its applications as well. The last one is application software like a word processor.

the benefits of raising bc’s minimum wage to $15 through a

series of pre-announced staged increases far outweigh the likely

costs. claims that such an increase will lead to massive job losses

in low-wage sectors of the economy are not credible.

• an increase to $15 would result in some job losses. however,

the likely impact is less than a 1 per cent reduction in the overall

provincial employment rate, and a 7.6 per cent reduction in the

employment rate for those currently making between $10.25

and $15 per hour.

• the large job loss impacts predicted by some opponents of

minimum wages misrepresent the existing economic research. in

reading and using that research, it is important to recognize that

estimates showing job loss effects of minimum wage increases

apply only to teenagers. estimated effects for young adult and

adult workers range from insignificant to non-existent.

• focusing on teenage workers plays up an inaccurate stereotype

about who earns very low wages in bc and leads to exaggerated

claims about job losses. only 26 per cent of those currently making

between $10.25 and $12 are teenagers, and only 5 per cent

of those making between $12 and $15 are teenagers.