I think the dedicated SONAR users need to put the plaque seen right at the 1:26 time in this vid on the door of their recording space. 
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMe7TovEneA]
HeyDan

This is where I first used SONAR
 

+1, SONAR existed long before Cakewalk.

+2 BobF & mettelus (Only mine was a fast attack not a boomer).

In true GNU fashion, SONAR stands for "SOnar is Not an AcRonym."

patm300e
+2 BobF & mettelus (Only mine was a fast attack not a boomer).

Another squid 

I'm going with: Smokin' Other Natiform Audio Recorders
 
 
 
 

Or Simply Obvious Natural Anything Recorder

quantumeffect
I started with CAKEWALK Pro Audio 6.0 in the 90's.
 
Since "Pro Audio" was in the name ... you might assume that the capture part pre-dated SONAR.
 
Also, since CAKEWALK was spelled with all capitals ... you might assume that CAKEWALK was an acronym.
 
[edit] I think it was either CAKEWALK (product name) or cakewalk (logo)

I started with Cakewalk Pro Audio 4.0...
Anyway, I think the company name back then was Twelve Tone, Inc. or something like that, and Cakewalk was a line of secquencers where Pro Audio was the top model. Later, they changed the company name to Cakewalk and the software name Sonar, not necessarily in that order.
 
(Does that mean in a few years the company name will be Sonar and the DAW name Platinum...?)
 

WOW !!!
Talk about leaving the door wide open . . .

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