Phil, I see your point, but I don't automatically award that point to the Cloud as I do to Multitenant.
The reason is I can put a totally single tenant and unconnected app in the Cloud that is the antithesis of your point, and there are still great reasons to want to do that (Software Service + Elasticity). For example, a drug company may put a proprietary but very cpu-intensive protein folding simulation there.
I can also put an app that has the qualities you speak of into my own data center, which isn't really the Cloud (unless we plan to call everything with an Internet connection the Cloud). In fact, this is the norm for highly connected apps today, as most of them are done in their own data centers rather than in the Cloud.
Because of this, I accrue your "scrutiny" and "connectedness" advantages more to multitenancy than the Cloud.
It is a very fine distinction though, I will admit!
Thanks for a great post,
BW
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