Cecil,
I have not use Visual MaxFrame so I can not say how good or bad it is! I believe I can say the same from you about Visual ProMatrix, I have been a Visual ProMatrix user for over five years and I found it pretty good, I have accomplished all kind of VFP applications using VPM (Money Transfer, POS, Video Store, Telephone Booth, Calling Card Inventory, and others) I use some third party poducts in these like Stonefield Database Toolkit, RECOVER, FoxFix, DBI controls, GreenLeaf CommX, etc) as you can see if you know your VFP and your framework, you can incorporate many tools into it. I use the ProMatrix Multilingual ToolKit which allows you to deliver your application in multiple languages, all you have to do is layout your form's objects and do the translations for your particular language (see
www.promatrix.com for more details), also the Source Control Kit allows you to integrate your project into Source Control.
Well I invite you all to download the demo, try it for a week, post messages into the Promatrix newsgroup then you can really say which Framework is better for your needs!
Edhy Rijo
ProMatrix MVP 1999-2001