<PAGE>   1
       AS FILED WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION ON FEBRUARY 27, 1998
                                                      REGISTRATION NO. 333-
================================================================================



                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                              WASHINGTON, DC 20549
                    ----------------------------------------

                                    FORM S-8

                             REGISTRATION STATEMENT

                                      UNDER

                           THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

                                  VITALCOM INC.
               (EXACT NAME OF REGISTRANT AS SPECIFIED IN CHARTER)

                    ----------------------------------------

       DELAWARE                                         33-0538926
------------------------                    ------------------------------------
(STATE OF INCORPORATION)                    (I.R.S. EMPLOYER IDENTIFICATION NO.)

                              15222 DEL AMO AVENUE
                            TUSTIN, CALIFORNIA 92780
                    (ADDRESS OF PRINCIPAL EXECUTIVE OFFICES)

                    ----------------------------------------

                             1993 STOCK OPTION PLAN
                       (AS AMENDED THROUGH DECEMBER 1997)

                            (Full Title of the Plan)
                    ----------------------------------------

                                SHELLEY B. THUNEN
                             CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
                                  VITALCOM INC.
                              15222 DEL AMO AVENUE
                            TUSTIN, CALIFORNIA 92780
                                 (714) 546-0147
(NAME, ADDRESS, AND TELEPHONE NUMBER, INCLUDING AREA CODE, OF AGENT FOR SERVICE)

                    ----------------------------------------

                                    COPY TO:
                              BARRY E. TAYLOR, ESQ.
                              MARK E. BONHAM, ESQ.
                        WILSON SONSINI GOODRICH & ROSATI
                            PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION
                               650 PAGE MILL ROAD
                            PALO ALTO, CA 94304-1050
                                 (650) 493-9300


                         CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE


<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                        AMOUNT           PROPOSED MAXIMUM    
        TITLE OF SECURITIES TO BE REGISTERED       TO BE REGISTERED  OFFERING PRICE PER SHARE
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
<S>                                                <C>               <C>             
Common Stock, $0.0001 par value
     To be issued under 1993 stock option plan.... 750,000 shares(1)         4.56(2)         
=============================================================================================
</TABLE>


<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                       PROPOSED MAXIMUM         AMOUNT OF
        TITLE OF SECURITIES TO BE REGISTERED       AGGREGATE OFFERING PRICE REGISTRATION FEE
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
<S>                                                <C>                      <C>       
Common Stock, $0.0001 par value
     To be issued under 1993 stock option plan....     $3,415,358(2)          $ 1,008.00
============================================================================================
</TABLE>



(1)      An additional 750,000 shares reserved for issuance under the 1993 Stock
         Option Plan were registered under the Registration Statement on Form
         S-8, file number 333-901 with the Securities and Exchange Commission on
         August 19, 1997 and an additional 839,885 shares reserved for issuance
         under the 1993 Stock Option Plan were registered under the Registration
         Statement on Form s-8/s-3, file number 333-03727 with the Securities
         and Exchange Commission on May 14, 1996.

(2)      Computed in accordance with Rule 457 under the Securities Act of 1933,
         as amended. Such computation is based on an estimated exercise price of
         $4.70 per share, which represents the weighted average exercise price
         with respect to 1,558,633 shares issuable upon exercise of granted
         options, and an estimated exercise price of $4.25 per share, which is
         based on the closing price of a share of VitalCom Inc. Common Stock as
         reported in the Nasdaq National Market on February 24, 1998.


                                             THE INDEX TO EXHIBITS IS ON PAGE 7.

<PAGE>   2
                                  VITALCOM INC.
                       REGISTRATION STATEMENT ON FORM S-8

                                     PART II

                 INFORMATION REQUIRED IN REGISTRATION STATEMENT

ITEM 3.  INCORPORATION OF DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE.

         There are hereby incorporated by reference in this Registration
Statement the following documents and information heretofore filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") by VitalCom Inc. (the
"Company"):

         (1)      The description of the Company's Common Stock contained in the
                  Company's Registration Statement on Form 8-A/A filed January
                  16, 1996 pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Securities Exchange
                  Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act") as amended on
                  February 13, 1996.

         (2)      The Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K/A for the year ended
                  December 31, 1996.

         (3)      The Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter
                  ended March 31, 1997.

         (3)      The Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter
                  ended June 30, 1997.

         (4)      The Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter
                  ended September 30, 1997.

         All documents subsequently filed by the Company pursuant to Sections
13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act, prior to the filing of a
post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities registered have
been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be
deemed to be incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement and to be
part hereof from the date of filing of such documents.

ITEM 4. DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES.

         Not applicable.

ITEM 5. INTERESTS OF NAMED EXPERTS AND COUNSEL.

         Not applicable.

ITEM 6. INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS.

         The Company's Certificate of Incorporation limits the monetary
liability of its directors to the Company or its stockholders for breach of such
director's fiduciary duty to the fullest extent permitted by the Delaware
General Corporation Law (the "DGCL") or, if the DGCL is not applicable, to the
fullest extent permissible under applicable law. In addition, the Company's
charter authorizes the Company by bylaw, agreement or otherwise to indemnify
directors, officers, employees and agents in excess of the indemnification
permitted by applicable law.


                                      II-1
<PAGE>   3
         Under the Company's by-laws, each person who was or is a party or is
threatened to be made a party to, or is involved in, any proceeding by reason of
the fact that he or she is or was a director or officer of the Company, or is or
was serving at the request of the Company as a director, officer, employee or
agent of another corporation or other enterprise, shall be indemnified and held
harmless by the Company to the fullest extent permitted by the DGCL against all
costs, charges, expenses, liabilities and losses (including attorney's fees)
reasonably incurred or suffered by such person in connection with such
proceeding. Such right to indemnification includes the right to be paid by the
Company the expenses incurred in defending any such proceeding in advance of its
final disposition. The Board of Directors has discretion to provide
indemnification to employees and agents of the Company with the same scope and
effect as the foregoing indemnification of directors and officers. The foregoing
right to indemnification and advancement of expenses under the Company's by-laws
is not exclusive of any other right which any person may have or acquire under
the Company's charter, any statute, agreement or otherwise.

         In addition, the Company has entered into indemnification agreements
with each of its directors and executive officers and has obtained a directors'
and officers' liability insurance policy that insures such persons against the
cost of defense, settlement or payment of judgments under certain circumstances.

ITEM 7. EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION CLAIMED.

         Not applicable.

ITEM 8. EXHIBITS.


        Exhibit                                                              
        Number                          Description
        ------                          -----------

         4.1      1993 Stock Option Plan, as amended through December 1997, and
                  form of agreement thereunder.

         5.1      Opinion of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Professional
                  Corporation, as to legality of securities being registered.

         23.1     Consent of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Professional
                  Corporation (contained in Exhibit 5.1).

         23.2     Independent Auditors' Consent.

         24.1     Power of Attorney (see page II-4).

----------

ITEM 9. UNDERTAKINGS.

         A.       The Company hereby undertakes:

                  (1)      To file, during any period in which offers or sales
are being made, a post-effective amendment to this registration statement to
include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not
previously disclosed in the Registration Statement or any material change to
such information in the Registration Statement.


                                      II-2
<PAGE>   4
                  (2)      That, for the purpose of determining any liability
under the Securities Act, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to
be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and
the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial
bona fide offering thereof.

                  (3)      To remove from registration by means of a
post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered which remain
unsold at the termination of the offering.

         B.       The Company hereby undertakes that, for purposes of
determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing of the Company's
annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act
(and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan's annual report
pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act) that is incorporated by reference
in the Registration Statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement
relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities
at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

         C.       Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the
Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons
of the Company pursuant to law, the Company's Certificate of Incorporation,
Bylaws or indemnification agreements, the Company has been informed that in the
opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is
against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is therefore
unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such
liabilities (other than the payment by the Company of expenses incurred or paid
by a director, officer or controlling person of the Company in a successful
defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer
or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered
hereunder, the Company will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has
already been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate
jurisdiction the question of whether such indemnification by it is against
public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the
final adjudication of such issue.


                                      II-3
<PAGE>   5
                                   SIGNATURES


         Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the
Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all
of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this registration
statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly
authorized, in the City of Tustin, State of California, on this 27th day of
February, 1998.

                                       VITALCOM INC.


                                       By: /s/ Shelley B. Thunen
                                           -------------------------------------
                                               Shelley B. Thunen,
                                               Chief Financial Officer


                                POWER OF ATTORNEY

         KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature
appears below constitutes and appoints Frank T. Sample and Shelley B. Thunen,
and each of them, as his or her attorney-in-fact, with full power of
substitution in each, for him or her in any and all capacities to sign any
amendments to this Registration Statement on Form S-8, and to file the same,
with exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, hereby ratifying and confirming all that
said attorney-in-fact, or his substitutes, may do or cause to be done by virtue
hereof.

         Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this
Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the
capacities and on this 27th day of February, 1998.



<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
       Signature                                   Title                                  Date 
       ---------                                   -----                                  ---- 
<S>                                 <C>                                               <C>

 /s/ Frank T. Sample                President, Chief Executive Officer
-------------------------------     (Principal Executive Officer) and Director 
Frank T. Sample                     

 /s/ Shelley B. Thunen              Chief Financial Officer (Principal
-------------------------------     Financial and Accounting Officer)
Shelley B. Thunen                   

 /s/ Patrick T. Hackett             Director
-------------------------------
Patrick T. Hackett

 /s/ Jack W. Lasersohn              Director
-------------------------------
Jack W. Lasersohn

 /s/ Timothy T. Weglicki            Director
-------------------------------
Timothy T. Weglicki
</TABLE>


                                      II-4
<PAGE>   6
                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

                             Washington, D.C. 20549

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

                                    EXHIBITS

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

                       Registration Statement on Form S-8


                                  VITALCOM INC.

                                February 27, 1998



<PAGE>   7
                                INDEX TO EXHIBITS


       Exhibit               
       Number                           Description
       ------                           -----------

         4.1      1993 Stock Option Plan, as amended through December 1997, and
                  form of agreement thereunder.

         5.1      Opinion of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Professional
                  Corporation, as to legality of securities being registered.

         23.1     Consent of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Professional
                  Corporation (contained in Exhibit 5.1).

         23.2     Independent Auditors' Consent.

         24.1     Power of Attorney (see page II-4).
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1
       AS FILED WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION ON FEBRUARY 27, 1998
                                                      REGISTRATION NO. 333-
================================================================================

                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                              WASHINGTON, DC 20549
                    ----------------------------------------

                                    FORM S-8

                             REGISTRATION STATEMENT

                                      UNDER

                           THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

                                  VITALCOM INC.
               (EXACT NAME OF REGISTRANT AS SPECIFIED IN CHARTER)

                    ----------------------------------------

       DELAWARE                                         33-0538926
------------------------                    ------------------------------------
(STATE OF INCORPORATION)                    (I.R.S. EMPLOYER IDENTIFICATION NO.)

                              15222 DEL AMO AVENUE
                            TUSTIN, CALIFORNIA 92780
                    (ADDRESS OF PRINCIPAL EXECUTIVE OFFICES)

                    ----------------------------------------

                             1993 STOCK OPTION PLAN
                       (AS AMENDED THROUGH DECEMBER 1997)

                            (Full Title of the Plan)
                    ----------------------------------------

                                SHELLEY B. THUNEN
                             CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
                                  VITALCOM INC.
                              15222 DEL AMO AVENUE
                            TUSTIN, CALIFORNIA 92780
                                 (714) 546-0147
(NAME, ADDRESS, AND TELEPHONE NUMBER, INCLUDING AREA CODE, OF AGENT FOR SERVICE)

                    ----------------------------------------

                                    COPY TO:
                              BARRY E. TAYLOR, ESQ.
                              MARK E. BONHAM, ESQ.
                        WILSON SONSINI GOODRICH & ROSATI
                            PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION
                               650 PAGE MILL ROAD
                            PALO ALTO, CA 94304-1050
                                 (650) 493-9300

                         CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
AMOUNT           PROPOSED MAXIMUM    
        TITLE OF SECURITIES TO BE REGISTERED       TO BE REGISTERED  OFFERING PRICE PER SHARE
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Common Stock, $0.0001 par value
     To be issued under 1993 stock option plan.... 750,000 shares(1)         4.56(2)         
=============================================================================================
PROPOSED MAXIMUM         AMOUNT OF
        TITLE OF SECURITIES TO BE REGISTERED       AGGREGATE OFFERING PRICE REGISTRATION FEE
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Common Stock, $0.0001 par value
     To be issued under 1993 stock option plan....     $3,415,358(2)          $ 1,008.00
============================================================================================
(1)      An additional 750,000 shares reserved for issuance under the 1993 Stock
         Option Plan were registered under the Registration Statement on Form
         S-8, file number 333-901 with the Securities and Exchange Commission on
         August 19, 1997 and an additional 839,885 shares reserved for issuance
         under the 1993 Stock Option Plan were registered under the Registration
         Statement on Form s-8/s-3, file number 333-03727 with the Securities
         and Exchange Commission on May 14, 1996.

(2)      Computed in accordance with Rule 457 under the Securities Act of 1933,
         as amended. Such computation is based on an estimated exercise price of
         $4.70 per share, which represents the weighted average exercise price
         with respect to 1,558,633 shares issuable upon exercise of granted
         options, and an estimated exercise price of $4.25 per share, which is
         based on the closing price of a share of VitalCom Inc. Common Stock as
         reported in the Nasdaq National Market on February 24, 1998.

                                             THE INDEX TO EXHIBITS IS ON PAGE 7.
2
                                  VITALCOM INC.
                       REGISTRATION STATEMENT ON FORM S-8

                                     PART II

                 INFORMATION REQUIRED IN REGISTRATION STATEMENT

ITEM 3.  INCORPORATION OF DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE.

         There are hereby incorporated by reference in this Registration
Statement the following documents and information heretofore filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") by VitalCom Inc. (the
"Company"):

         (1)      The description of the Company's Common Stock contained in the
                  Company's Registration Statement on Form 8-A/A filed January
                  16, 1996 pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Securities Exchange
                  Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act") as amended on
                  February 13, 1996.

         (2)      The Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K/A for the year ended
                  December 31, 1996.

         (3)      The Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter
                  ended March 31, 1997.

         (3)      The Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter
                  ended June 30, 1997.

         (4)      The Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter
                  ended September 30, 1997.

         All documents subsequently filed by the Company pursuant to Sections
13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act, prior to the filing of a
post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities registered have
been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be
deemed to be incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement and to be
part hereof from the date of filing of such documents.

ITEM 4. DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES.

         Not applicable.

ITEM 5. INTERESTS OF NAMED EXPERTS AND COUNSEL.

         Not applicable.

ITEM 6. INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS.

         The Company's Certificate of Incorporation limits the monetary
liability of its directors to the Company or its stockholders for breach of such
director's fiduciary duty to the fullest extent permitted by the Delaware
General Corporation Law (the "DGCL") or, if the DGCL is not applicable, to the
fullest extent permissible under applicable law. In addition, the Company's
charter authorizes the Company by bylaw, agreement or otherwise to indemnify
directors, officers, employees and agents in excess of the indemnification
permitted by applicable law.

                                      II-1
3
         Under the Company's by-laws, each person who was or is a party or is
threatened to be made a party to, or is involved in, any proceeding by reason of
the fact that he or she is or was a director or officer of the Company, or is or
was serving at the request of the Company as a director, officer, employee or
agent of another corporation or other enterprise, shall be indemnified and held
harmless by the Company to the fullest extent permitted by the DGCL against all
costs, charges, expenses, liabilities and losses (including attorney's fees)
reasonably incurred or suffered by such person in connection with such
proceeding. Such right to indemnification includes the right to be paid by the
Company the expenses incurred in defending any such proceeding in advance of its
final disposition. The Board of Directors has discretion to provide
indemnification to employees and agents of the Company with the same scope and
effect as the foregoing indemnification of directors and officers. The foregoing
right to indemnification and advancement of expenses under the Company's by-laws
is not exclusive of any other right which any person may have or acquire under
the Company's charter, any statute, agreement or otherwise.

         In addition, the Company has entered into indemnification agreements
with each of its directors and executive officers and has obtained a directors'
and officers' liability insurance policy that insures such persons against the
cost of defense, settlement or payment of judgments under certain circumstances.

ITEM 7. EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION CLAIMED.

         Not applicable.

ITEM 8. EXHIBITS.

        Exhibit                                                              
        Number                          Description
        ------                          -----------

         4.1      1993 Stock Option Plan, as amended through December 1997, and
                  form of agreement thereunder.

         5.1      Opinion of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Professional
                  Corporation, as to legality of securities being registered.

         23.1     Consent of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Professional
                  Corporation (contained in Exhibit 5.1).

         23.2     Independent Auditors' Consent.

         24.1     Power of Attorney (see page II-4).

----------

ITEM 9. UNDERTAKINGS.

         A.       The Company hereby undertakes:

                  (1)      To file, during any period in which offers or sales
are being made, a post-effective amendment to this registration statement to
include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not
previously disclosed in the Registration Statement or any material change to
such information in the Registration Statement.

                                      II-2
4
                  (2)      That, for the purpose of determining any liability
under the Securities Act, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to
be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and
the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial
bona fide offering thereof.

                  (3)      To remove from registration by means of a
post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered which remain
unsold at the termination of the offering.

         B.       The Company hereby undertakes that, for purposes of
determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing of the Company's
annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act
(and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan's annual report
pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act) that is incorporated by reference
in the Registration Statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement
relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities
at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

         C.       Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the
Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons
of the Company pursuant to law, the Company's Certificate of Incorporation,
Bylaws or indemnification agreements, the Company has been informed that in the
opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is
against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is therefore
unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such
liabilities (other than the payment by the Company of expenses incurred or paid
by a director, officer or controlling person of the Company in a successful
defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer
or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered
hereunder, the Company will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has
already been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate
jurisdiction the question of whether such indemnification by it is against
public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the
final adjudication of such issue.

                                      II-3
5
                                   SIGNATURES

         Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the
Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all
of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this registration
statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly
authorized, in the City of Tustin, State of California, on this 27th day of
February, 1998.

                                       VITALCOM INC.

                                       By: /s/ Shelley B. Thunen
                                           -------------------------------------
                                               Shelley B. Thunen,
                                               Chief Financial Officer

                                POWER OF ATTORNEY

         KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature
appears below constitutes and appoints Frank T. Sample and Shelley B. Thunen,
and each of them, as his or her attorney-in-fact, with full power of
substitution in each, for him or her in any and all capacities to sign any
amendments to this Registration Statement on Form S-8, and to file the same,
with exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, hereby ratifying and confirming all that
said attorney-in-fact, or his substitutes, may do or cause to be done by virtue
hereof.

         Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this
Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the
capacities and on this 27th day of February, 1998.
Signature                                   Title                                  Date 
       ---------                                   -----                                  ----
/s/ Frank T. Sample                President, Chief Executive Officer
-------------------------------     (Principal Executive Officer) and Director 
Frank T. Sample                     

 /s/ Shelley B. Thunen              Chief Financial Officer (Principal
-------------------------------     Financial and Accounting Officer)
Shelley B. Thunen                   

 /s/ Patrick T. Hackett             Director
-------------------------------
Patrick T. Hackett

 /s/ Jack W. Lasersohn              Director
-------------------------------
Jack W. Lasersohn

 /s/ Timothy T. Weglicki            Director
-------------------------------
Timothy T. Weglicki
II-4
6
                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

                             Washington, D.C. 20549

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

                                    EXHIBITS

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

                       Registration Statement on Form S-8

                                  VITALCOM INC.

                                February 27, 1998
7
                                INDEX TO EXHIBITS

       Exhibit               
       Number                           Description
       ------                           -----------

         4.1      1993 Stock Option Plan, as amended through December 1997, and
                  form of agreement thereunder.

         5.1      Opinion of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Professional
                  Corporation, as to legality of securities being registered.

         23.1     Consent of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Professional
                  Corporation (contained in Exhibit 5.1).

         23.2     Independent Auditors' Consent.

         24.1     Power of Attorney (see page II-4).