Migrating Legacy Applications to Solaris 10 Containers

Hi, Good Day,
We have some customers who are keen to migrate their legacy banking systems to run on Solaris 10 containers. We intend to assess the feasibility of the project.
Kindly advice the considerations/potential pitfalls(if any) of running legacy Solaris 8 applications on Solaris 10 containers. Kindly advice those types of applications that cannot run on Solaris 10 containers?
What kind of information should we extract from the customer to understand these considerations?
Thank-you and Best Regards,
Siong Guan

Oracle migration workbench solve only the technical point of the migration. That won't solve the data mapping you have to define on your own.
Data mapping is the most important task of a migration, totally depending of the source and target systems. You need expertise on both of them and discuss with the business and functional experts people.
Then, and only after defining the data mapping, you can go for the technical migration.
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