Oracle Net8 Configuration and Troubleshooting

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The insects on the cover of Oracle Net8 Configuration and Troubleshooting are silk moths (Bombyx mori). Once wild throughout eastern Asia, silk moths now exist only for sericulture-silk manufacturing for human use. However, by the time a silk moth is an actual moth, it no longer produces silk, does not eat, and has only a couple of weeks to live. Silk factories breed the moths for their larvae, silkworm caterpillars, which spin silk cocoons to enshroud and protect themselves during their development into moths. One cocoon yields nearly a half-mile of strong fiber, which can be woven into the silk thread and fabric used for clothing and other textiles.

A silk moth pupa’s metamorphosis involves histolysis-self-digestion that makes room for the development of a dramatically different body. No longer a worm, the pupa emerges from its silk cocoon a winged moth.

Darren Kelly was the production editor, Catherine Morris was the copyeditor, and Ellie Cutler was the proofreader for Oracle Net8 Configuration and Troubleshooting . Linley Dolby, Sarah Jane Shangraw, Madeleine Newell, and Claire Cloutier provided quality control. Joe Wizda wrote the index. Interior composition was done by Deborah Smith, Matthew Hutchinson, and Rachel Wheeler.