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.
Harriet Coverston led the development of SAM-QFS, a product initially owned by LSC. After being purchased by Sun in 2001, SAM-QFS's source code was released to the OpenSolaris project in March 2008.