Forms migration

We want some information regarding forms 9i.
At present, our applications are developed in D2k. We wish to migrate to oracle forms 9i. I hope we have to first migrate to forms 6i and then to forms 9i.
In this regard, we came to know about migration assistant.
Is it downloadable from the oracle website free ?
Will it be smooth migration ?
How much time and efforts are required for one form (say containing 32 screens, 30 datablocks, 60 procedure, 1500 fields) ?
Any limitations or problems we'll encounter while doing ?
Please give some feedback and any links or documents related to this topic.

You can upgrade from 6i directly to 10g.
Upragde from (I assume you are talking about Forms 4.5) to 6i will involve in nearly all cases just a re-generation (assuming c/s to c/s). If you are moving from char mode to c/s first there is a bit more involvement - details of char mode upgrade also on otn.oracle.com/formsupgrade.
Regards
Grant

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