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Having looked this up in a couple dictionaries now, the person you're responding to is absolutely correct in their objection.

The word "premise" is misused in "on premise" speaking of computers running at a owner's location. I don't think the distinction of it referring to a literal location or metaphorical location (managed by an owner at a different location) matters.

While this might change over time and with on-going vernacular usage, but as of now: our industry is misusing the word. Including myself (until now).




While the person I'm responding to may be upset that 'premise' seems to be acquiring a second meaning in this specific circumstance, they are almost certainly not correct that OP 'want[s]' to say premises. OP almost certainly said exactly what they intended to say.

The use of 'on-premise' rather than 'on-premises' even in formal texts is at least 200 years old (examples below). How much time should it take for us to accept "on-premise", rather than "on-premises"?

(https://www.google.hu/books/edition/Records_and_Briefs_of_th..., https://www.google.hu/books/edition/Documents/3jIbAQAAIAAJ?h..., https://www.google.hu/books/edition/Council_Proceedings/rLro...).




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