Premise vs. Premises in the Cloud
With all of the research I've been doing for our latest book: Cloud Computing for Dummies, I've noticed something very disturbing. Maybe it's because I come from a telecommunications background, that this bothers me so much—but has anyone else noticed that people are misusing the word premise when describing aspects of the cloud? I keep reading articles and blogs where an author refers to an "on premise" solution. The proper term is premises as in 'on your premises' (see below).
From Dictionary.com
Premise: a proposition supporting or helping to support a conclusion.
Premises: a tract of land including its buildings.
Even vendors in the space are making this mistake. It's appalling. I could list dozens of examples of this error. Has the definition of the word changed and I'm missing something? Or, has the word been used incorrectly so many times that it doesn't matter anymore?
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22nd June 2009: 'Cheryl' said:
I agree, I spent the better part of 3 months wading through a website for a technology company and editing it to say on-premises. The problem is that "on-premise" has been used over a number of years and no one has said anything about it, so people who are reading and learning about it(datacloud in this case)and various other applications that are on premises don't realize that to say it's on-premise is wrong because that is the vernacular that everyone else is using. Most will assume that this is correct and use it as it was presented to them. No one has really gone out to correct this word in the software industry.
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