The lead architect of SAM-QFS was Harriet Coverston, the founder and VP of Technology at LSC. LSC and SAM-QFS were purchased by Sun in 2001. Sun released the SAM-QFS source code to the OpenSolaris project in March 2008.
The lead architect for SAM-QFS was Harriet Coverston, who also founded and held a senior technology position at LSC. Both LSC and SAM-QFS were acquired by Sun in 2001. In March 2008, the source code of SAM-QFS was made available to the OpenSolaris project.