A quick update to the brief:
This logo will appear on the web as well as on printed marketing materials. Please keep gradients and shadows subtle and to a minimum. These usually don't come off well on printed materials. Also we need to have a logo that looks good both on light and dark backgrounds.
We are open to all logo styles (not only the ones specified in the brief). Also font choice is quite important to us. We want something clean and classy that won't go out of style in 2 years, but also not too techy.
I really like logos by this designer:
http://www.segura-inc.com/portfolio/categories/4/identity. Maybe this will help draw some inspiration for the Synergetics design. Also, if you are designing a logo with a pictoral letter "S", please make that S integrate into the word "Syenrgetics". Instead of having "logo S" Synergetics, have "logo S" ynergetics. If the logo is not an "S", then the entire word Synergetics is great.
Thanks everyone!