We have often wondered just what could possibly happen to the Minerva middleware which is in use at some 220 incumbent US Telcos. Well it has lined up multiple new technology partners and taken its service to the cloud to be used as a multi-tenanted site – a hosted system, in other words. It looks to us that it has carved out a way for its community of customers to work together in clusters, instead of moving off the technology lock stock and barrel, with some of them hosting centralized back office facilities for both themselves and others. Minerva will work with French software firm Anevia for cloudDVR and Sagemcom’s for its IP Linux set tops for telcos and Arris…