Using Docker Desktop with a Personal Account on a Company PC - docker-desktop

I'm using a Docker Desktop on my company pc. I'm using it with my Personal Account (free) and for my own personal projects. Nothing to do with the company where I work for or any other commercial goal. Just my own playground.
Recently, my company was asked by Docker to remove my account or to upgrade it to a paid level.
My question:
May I or may I not use Docker Desktop software on my company PC with my free Personal / Community account?

Are you using the company address when opening the account with Docker? If yes, then I believe its deemed as a corporate account and according to the Docker Subscription Service Agreement, may require you to have a paid subscription.
The subscription is free for small businesses which has under 250 employees and less than 10mil in annual revenue. See Docker Subscription

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Installation of GoodData.CN into AWS EKS

I'm working on Installation GoodData.CN into our AWS EKS and I would be happy if you could help me with the installation process.
We have two separate AWS environments: a Dev/Test-stage and a Production stage. And we are using Redshift as a datasource as well, so it's necessary for us to have the possibility to work with it during development. However, I'm not able to use Enterprise License Key for Dev/Tests stage environment.
How can I install DEV/Test version (or a Community version) to AWS Kubernetes cluster?
Could you please give me an advice, how to install GoodData.CN as a Dev/Test version?
Is it possible to obtain a DEV/Test Licence Key for a Cloud-Native installation?
GoodData provides 3 various production ready editions - Free, Growth, Enterprise. In case of Free, you can get the license key upon registration of company email. There is no limitation on number of workspaces or registrations you can make.
For Growth and Enterprise this is handled individually. We can split the amount of workspaces you require between license keys you need.

Modern.ie Virtual Machine : Purchasing perpetual/subscription for Virtual machines

The T&C for the Modern.ie Virtual machine licence states
TIME-SENSITIVE SOFTWARE. You may use the software for 90 days after it is downloaded to the
licensed computer. The software will stop running after 90 days and you may not receive any other
notice. You may not be able to access data used with the software when it stops running.
We would like to perform cross-browser testing and we find modern.ie more reliable. Is there a way to purchase licence legally? I checked the T & C page and StackOverflow site and there is no reference or contact info on how to purchase perpetual/subscription licence.
Since many of our clients are using older versions of IE and forcing them to use Edge may not be an option, can Microsoft advice how to purchase legal perpetual/subscription based licences. Per policy, Our company cannot allow to extend trial-versions in our desktop.
Any pointers would be helpful.
Any legal key for windows that is still valid should work.

Free IaaS for development with full access control? (like EC2)

I am looking for a "free" IaaS service as an alternative to EC2 which will let me SSH into a system with full user permissions (create/delete files, install services, libraries and applications from the repository).
Tried OpenShift but ended up leaving due to strict permission policy on the SSH. Heroku, dotCloud, CloudFoundry.com, Stackato are PaaS providers. Rackspace and Linode might have what I need but are not free.
Is my own home server or EC2 are the only two options that I have? For the curious, I want to deploy my entire .vim folder and .vimc file for development on the cloud from a computer when I am not at home.
It seems like you want something for free that is not provided anywhere for free. I know its a shame, but it is reasonable that companies would charge for such a thing. Given that you want it for free I am guessing that you don't need much power or anything large scale. In that case I would look into the cheaper end of Virtual Private servers or a micro instance on EC2. VPS servers start at around $20 a month and a micro server starts at $14. Of course for the microserver you will have to pay a little extra for bandwidth and probably and EBS volume. Additionally AWS offers a free tier which pretty much allows you to run a micro instance with EBS for the first year.

Test sending of mqseries messages without installing WebSphere MQ

Is there any environment to test sending of mqseries messages without installing WebSphere MQ?
We are developing some application which will be cooperate with WebSphere MQ system and we are wondering how to test it without buying one. We just want to know whether we send are messages correctly.
I don't know of anything that simulates a QMgr. On the other hand, there are options for development using WebSphere MQ at low or no cost.
There is a free 90-day trial here.
You can run an Amazon Machine Image on which the IBM licenses are free for development use. (You still pay Amazon for the image usage, just not for the IBM licensing.)
If your company owns a current license and support of WebSphere Message Broker, you are entitled to put all of it's components, including WebSphere MQ, onto all developer desktops in your organization as described in the Infocenter here.
If you are developing software for resale, you can register as an IBM Business partner and gain access to WebSphere, Rational, Tivoli and InfoSphere software through the Software Access Catalog offering for $795 a year. That's per enterprise, not per person, by the way.
If your company is an IBM Business Partner and is planning to obtain IBM certification for many developers, the Value Plan Option costs $2k but reimburses up to $6k of testing fees and includes the Software Access Catalog.
I am a product manager for WebSphere MQ so I'm always interested in whether potential users are able to get access to WebSphere products that they need for trial or development purposes. If none of the options here meets your needs, and this goes for anyone reading this post, I'd invite you to contact me directly using the address in my profile.

Acquiring / accessing Citrix environment for QA purposes

We have a Windows Forms, .NET 2.0 application delivered via ClickOnce and driven by web services, that our customers occasionally wish to deploy into a Citrix environment. In some cases, the customer elects to allow our application to be deployed locally to user machines and bypass the Citrix server, in one case we've provided a static installer for a customer to use with the proviso that updates would not be pushed automatically, and in some cases, our customer IT departments have had the technical savvy to make the ClickOnce deployment work in their Citrix environment.
My question is not about the ClickOnce vs. Citrix issues themselves -- we've learned a fair amount from online research and talking to customers -- but about the most cost effective approach for us to look at the issues first hand. Particularly for those of you who are Citrix customers or vendors, what is the most effective way for us to set up a Citrix QA environment (specifially, Citrix for desktop virtualization), given that we have no real use for a Citrix server otherwise?
The simplest Citrix farm can be a single computer, and licenses can be purchased from Citrix for development purposes at a reduced rate. One of my past employers had a single laptop set up as a Citrix server in its own farm, for performance testing, since it only took about 5 users connecting to its published application for that laptop to start significantly slowing down. If part of your development work is to test load-balancing, two computers can be set up as a farm and load balance across them. If you have no other use for the servers, and don't need to demonstrate the software running blazing fast on them, workstation-class computers can fill the need (rather than the added cost of server-class computers), along with development licenses rather than production licenses from Citrix.
Citrix for virtualisation (XenDesktop) is a completely different product to XenApp (was Presentation Server, was Metaframe).
I'm sure that Citrix offer trial versions of all their products.
Building a standalone XenApp server is relatively simple esp. if you've got VMware Workstation available.