word choice - "On which" or "upon which"
Today, I am writing technical documentation that instructs the user how to install software to a server. I encountered the following sentence and am unsure which is correct:
When installing to a server other than that on which SQL Server is installed, ...
Should on be changed to upon?
When installing to a server other than that upon which SQL Server is installed, ...
It all seems like a mouthful, but appears to be grammatically correct.
Answer
Both are indeed acceptable. I agree with Peter that upon kind of reminds me of something being within a physical relativity of the SQL server which is something I do not think you wish to convey to the user.
However, I would write
When installing to a server besides the one on which the SQL Server is installed …
instead of
When installing to a server other than that on which SQL Server is installed …
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