Stay on ACF
Familiar platform, low immediate disruption — but licensing pressure, vendor dependency, and limited modernization flexibility.
Why Not Just Rewrite Everything?
ColdFusion applications contain years of business logic, integrations, edge cases, and undocumented behavior. A full rewrite introduces high cost, timeline risk, regression risk, and business disruption.
Rewrite in Another Stack
Clean-slate architecture — but high cost, long timeline, regression risk, and loss of CFML knowledge.
Evaluate BoxLang
Incremental modernization, CFML knowledge preserved, potential licensing reduction, lower rewrite risk.