Anyway, the new logo arrived and was immediately the subject of much mockery:

After April of 2001 I figured I'd seen the last of that lame green paper airplane. That was until I saw an ad for "Telerik Reports" in Visual Studio magazine. Their product logo looked surprising familiar:

I'm by no means accusing the fine folks at Telerik of ripping-off the old Mercator logo. I'd be genuinely shocked if anyone there even heard of Mercator. What I do think is they hired the same lazy consultants that Mercator used more than five years ago. Their slogan must be "if you have a product, we have a green paper airplane logo for it". If they paid more than 25-cents for this they were royally scammed. If they at least changed the color of the paper airplane and used a different font it would have been 1000x more original:

I think that's a significant improvement. Can I collect my massive consulting fee now?