[8] Many projects were designed and built using Sonata, including Peddle Thorp Architect's Rod Laver Arena in 1987, and Gatwick Airport North Terminal Domestic Facility by Taylor Woodrow.
[9] The US-based architect HKS used the software in 1992 to design a horse racing facility (Lone Star Park in Grand Prairie, Texas) and subsequently purchased the successor product, Reflex.
Ltd. the Australian discount department store retailer bought two Sonata licences in 1992 to replace two RUCAPS workstations originally from Coles Supermarkets.
Combined with the multiple project access (MPA) networking on the Unix operating system platform, a key selection criteria for continuing with the RUCAPS-Sonata architecture enabled the retailer's 50 stores in 5 years program during the late 1990s be executed with a small team.
The Sonata business was founded in 1984 and, by one account it "disappeared in a mysterious, corporate black hole, somewhere in eastern Canada in 1992,"[11] after new owner Alias Research discontinued marketing of the product.