<PAGE>   1
      AS FILED WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION ON JULY 24, 1998
                                                     REGISTRATION NO. 333-______
================================================================================
                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
                                    FORM S-8
                             REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                      UNDER
                           THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
                          DOCUMENT SCIENCES CORPORATION
             (EXACT NAME OF REGISTRANT AS SPECIFIED IN ITS CHARTER)

        DELAWARE                                         33-0485994
        --------                                         ----------
(STATE OF INCORPORATION)                    (I.R.S. EMPLOYER IDENTIFICATION NO.)

                              6333 GREENWICH DRIVE
                                    SUITE 200
                               SAN DIEGO, CA 92122
   (ADDRESS, INCLUDING ZIP CODE, OF REGISTRANT'S PRINCIPAL EXECUTIVE OFFICES)


                            1995 STOCK INCENTIVE PLAN
                            (FULL TITLE OF THE PLAN)
                                ALAN H. LYNCHOSKY
                  ACTING PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
                          DOCUMENT SCIENCES CORPORATION
                              6333 GREENWICH DRIVE
                                    SUITE 200
                               SAN DIEGO, CA 92122
                                 (619) 625-2000
(NAME, ADDRESS, AND TELEPHONE NUMBER, INCLUDING AREA CODE, OF AGENT FOR SERVICE)
                                   Copies to:
                             MARK A. BERTELSEN, ESQ.
                        WILSON SONSINI GOODRICH & ROSATI
                            PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION
                               650 PAGE MILL ROAD
                            PALO ALTO, CA 94304-1050
                                 (415) 493-9300

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                               CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
====================================================================================================================================
        TITLE OF SECURITIES TO BE REGISTERED           AMOUNT TO BE      PROPOSED MAXIMUM       PROPOSED MAXIMUM       AMOUNT OF
                                                        REGISTERED        OFFERING PRICE           AGGREGATE          REGISTRATION
                                                                           PER SHARE(1)         OFFERING PRICE*         FEE (2)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
<S>           <C>                                     <C>                <C>                   <C>                   <C>
Common Stock, $0.001 par value
  - 1995 Stock Incentive Plan                            750,000               $2.719             $2,039,250             $602


                  TOTAL ...........................      750,000               $2.719             $2,039,250             $602
                                                         =======
====================================================================================================================================
</TABLE>

(1) Estimated in accordance with Rule 457(h) solely for the purpose of
calculating the filing fee on the basis of $2.719 per share, which represents
the average of the high and the low prices reported on the Nasdaq National
Market on July 22, 1998.
(2) Amount of the Registration Fee was calculated pursuant to Section 6(b) of
the Securities Act of 1993, as amended.

================================================================================

<PAGE>   2

                          DOCUMENT SCIENCES CORPORATION
                       REGISTRATION STATEMENT ON FORM S-8

                                     PART II
               INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE 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:

                  (a) The Registrant's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal
         year ended December 31, 1997, filed pursuant to Section 13 of the
         Securities Exchange act of 1934, as amended (the "1934 Act");

                  (b) The Registrant's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the
         quarter ended March 31, 1998, filed pursuant to Section 13 of the 1934
         Act;

                  (c) The description of the Registrant's Common Stock contained
         in the Registrant's Registration Statement on Form 8-A, as amended,
         filed on July 5, 1996.

         In addition, all documents filed by the Registrant pursuant to Sections
13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the 1934 Act on or after the date of this
Registration Statement and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment
which indicates that all securities offered 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.

         Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law authorizes a court
to award or a corporation's Board of Directors to grant indemnification to
directors and officers in terms sufficiently broad to permit such
indemnification under certain circumstances for liabilities (including
reimbursement for expenses incurred) arising under the Securities Act of 1933.
The Registrant's Bylaws provide for mandatory indemnification of its directors
and officers and permissible indemnification of employees and other agents to
the fullest extent permitted by the Delaware General Corporation Law. In
addition, the Registrant's Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation
provides that, to the fullest extent permitted by the Delaware General
Corporation Law, its directors shall not be personally liable for monetary
damages for breach of the directors' fiduciary duties as directors to the
Registrant and its stockholders. This provision in the Amended and Restated
Certificate of Incorporation does not 

                                      II-1

<PAGE>   3

eliminate the directors' fiduciary duty, and, in appropriate circumstances,
equitable remedies such as injunctive or other forms of non-monetary relief will
remain under Delaware law. Further, each director will continue to be subject to
liability for breach of the director's duty of loyalty to the Registrant, for
acts or omissions not in good faith or involving intentional misconduct or
knowing violations of law, for acts or omissions that the director believes to
be contrary to the best interests of the Registrant or its stockholders, for any
transaction from which the director derived an improper personal benefit, for
acts or omissions involving a reckless disregard for the director's duty to the
Registrant or its stockholders when the director was aware or should have been
aware of a risk of serious injury to the Registrant or its stockholders, for
acts or omissions that constitute an unexcused pattern of inattention that
amounts to an abdication of the director's duty to the Registrant or its
stockholders, for improper transactions between the director and the Registrant
and for improper distributions to stockholders and loans to directors and
officers. This provision also does not affect a director's responsibilities
under any other laws, such as the federal securities laws or state or federal
environmental laws. In addition, the Registrant has entered into contractual
agreements with each of its directors and certain officers of the Registrant
designated by the Board to indemnify such individuals to the fullest extent
permitted by law.


ITEM 7.        EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION CLAIMED.

         Not applicable.


ITEM 8.        EXHIBITS.

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
       EXHIBIT                                      
       NUMBER               DESCRIPTION
<S>             <C>    
         4.1    1995 Stock Incentive Plan, as amended March 9, 1998

         5.1    Opinion of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C., with respect
                to the securities being registered.

        23.1    Consent of Ernst & Young LLP, Independent Auditors.

        23.2    Consent of Counsel (contained in Exhibit 5.1).

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

</TABLE>



ITEM 9.        UNDERTAKINGS.

         A.   The undersigned Registrant 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.

                  (2)   That, for the purpose of determining any liability under
the Securities Act of 1933, 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.

                                      II-2

<PAGE>   4

                  (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 undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of
determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the
registrant's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (and, where applicable, each filing of an
employee benefit plan's annual report pursuant to section 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934) 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 of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling
persons of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise,
the registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and
Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed
in the Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for
indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the
registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling
person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or
proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in
connection with the securities being registered, the registrant will, unless in
the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent,
submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such
indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the 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 San Diego, State of California, on this 24th day of
July 1998.

                                        DOCUMENT SCIENCES CORPORATION


                                        By: /s/ Alan H. Lynchosky
                                            ------------------------------------
                                            Alan H Lynchosky, Acting President 
                                            and Chief Executive Officer

                                POWER OF ATTORNEY

         KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature
appears below constitutes and appoints Alan Lynchosky, his or her
attorney-in-fact, each with the power of substitution, 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 their substitute or
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 by the following persons in the
capacities and on the dates indicated.

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

/s/ Alan H. Lynchosky                Acting President and Chief Executive Officer (Principal         July 24, 1998
---------------------------                                                                 
(Alan H. Lynchosky)                  Executive Officer)

/s/ John H. Wilson                   Acting Chief Financial Officer, (Principal Financial            July 24, 1998
---------------------------                                                              
(John H. Wilson)                     Officer)

/s/ Thomas L. Ringer                 Chairman of the Board of Directors                              July 24, 1998
---------------------------
(Thomas L. Ringer)

/s/ Colin J. O'Brien                 Director                                                        July 24, 1998
---------------------------
(Colin J. O'Brien)

/s/ James J. Costello                Director                                                        July 24, 1998
---------------------------
(James J. Costello)

/s/ Charles P. Holt                  Director                                                        July 24, 1998
---------------------------
(Charles P. Holt)

/s/ Barton L. Faber                  Director                                                        July 24, 1998
---------------------------
(Barton L. Faber)

</TABLE>


                                      II-4

<PAGE>   6

                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

                             WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

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                       REGISTRATION STATEMENT ON FORM S-8

                                      UNDER

                           THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

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

                          DOCUMENT SCIENCES CORPORATION

                                  JULY 24, 1998

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                                    EXHIBITS


<PAGE>   7

                                INDEX TO EXHIBITS

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
       EXHIBIT                                                       
       NUMBER                      DESCRIPTION               

<S>     <C>     <C>                                         <C>    
         4.1    1995 Stock Incentive Plan, as amended March 9, 1998

         5.1    Opinion of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C., with respect
                to the securities being registered.

        23.1    Consent of Ernst & Young LLP, Independent Auditors.

        23.2    Consent of Counsel (contained in Exhibit 5.1).

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

</TABLE>

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1
      AS FILED WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION ON JULY 24, 1998
                                                     REGISTRATION NO. 333-______
================================================================================
                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
                                    FORM S-8
                             REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                      UNDER
                           THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
                          DOCUMENT SCIENCES CORPORATION
             (EXACT NAME OF REGISTRANT AS SPECIFIED IN ITS CHARTER)

        DELAWARE                                         33-0485994
        --------                                         ----------
(STATE OF INCORPORATION)                    (I.R.S. EMPLOYER IDENTIFICATION NO.)

                              6333 GREENWICH DRIVE
                                    SUITE 200
                               SAN DIEGO, CA 92122
   (ADDRESS, INCLUDING ZIP CODE, OF REGISTRANT'S PRINCIPAL EXECUTIVE OFFICES)

                            1995 STOCK INCENTIVE PLAN
                            (FULL TITLE OF THE PLAN)
                                ALAN H. LYNCHOSKY
                  ACTING PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
                          DOCUMENT SCIENCES CORPORATION
                              6333 GREENWICH DRIVE
                                    SUITE 200
                               SAN DIEGO, CA 92122
                                 (619) 625-2000
(NAME, ADDRESS, AND TELEPHONE NUMBER, INCLUDING AREA CODE, OF AGENT FOR SERVICE)
                                   Copies to:
                             MARK A. BERTELSEN, ESQ.
                        WILSON SONSINI GOODRICH & ROSATI
                            PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION
                               650 PAGE MILL ROAD
                            PALO ALTO, CA 94304-1050
                                 (415) 493-9300
CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
====================================================================================================================================
        TITLE OF SECURITIES TO BE REGISTERED           AMOUNT TO BE      PROPOSED MAXIMUM       PROPOSED MAXIMUM       AMOUNT OF
                                                        REGISTERED        OFFERING PRICE           AGGREGATE          REGISTRATION
                                                                           PER SHARE(1)         OFFERING PRICE*         FEE (2)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Common Stock, $0.001 par value
  - 1995 Stock Incentive Plan                            750,000               $2.719             $2,039,250             $602

                  TOTAL ...........................      750,000               $2.719             $2,039,250             $602
                                                         =======
====================================================================================================================================
(1) Estimated in accordance with Rule 457(h) solely for the purpose of
calculating the filing fee on the basis of $2.719 per share, which represents
the average of the high and the low prices reported on the Nasdaq National
Market on July 22, 1998.
(2) Amount of the Registration Fee was calculated pursuant to Section 6(b) of
the Securities Act of 1993, as amended.

================================================================================
2

                          DOCUMENT SCIENCES CORPORATION
                       REGISTRATION STATEMENT ON FORM S-8

                                     PART II
               INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE 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:

                  (a) The Registrant's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal
         year ended December 31, 1997, filed pursuant to Section 13 of the
         Securities Exchange act of 1934, as amended (the "1934 Act");

                  (b) The Registrant's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the
         quarter ended March 31, 1998, filed pursuant to Section 13 of the 1934
         Act;

                  (c) The description of the Registrant's Common Stock contained
         in the Registrant's Registration Statement on Form 8-A, as amended,
         filed on July 5, 1996.

         In addition, all documents filed by the Registrant pursuant to Sections
13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the 1934 Act on or after the date of this
Registration Statement and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment
which indicates that all securities offered 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.

         Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law authorizes a court
to award or a corporation's Board of Directors to grant indemnification to
directors and officers in terms sufficiently broad to permit such
indemnification under certain circumstances for liabilities (including
reimbursement for expenses incurred) arising under the Securities Act of 1933.
The Registrant's Bylaws provide for mandatory indemnification of its directors
and officers and permissible indemnification of employees and other agents to
the fullest extent permitted by the Delaware General Corporation Law. In
addition, the Registrant's Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation
provides that, to the fullest extent permitted by the Delaware General
Corporation Law, its directors shall not be personally liable for monetary
damages for breach of the directors' fiduciary duties as directors to the
Registrant and its stockholders. This provision in the Amended and Restated
Certificate of Incorporation does not 

                                      II-1
3

eliminate the directors' fiduciary duty, and, in appropriate circumstances,
equitable remedies such as injunctive or other forms of non-monetary relief will
remain under Delaware law. Further, each director will continue to be subject to
liability for breach of the director's duty of loyalty to the Registrant, for
acts or omissions not in good faith or involving intentional misconduct or
knowing violations of law, for acts or omissions that the director believes to
be contrary to the best interests of the Registrant or its stockholders, for any
transaction from which the director derived an improper personal benefit, for
acts or omissions involving a reckless disregard for the director's duty to the
Registrant or its stockholders when the director was aware or should have been
aware of a risk of serious injury to the Registrant or its stockholders, for
acts or omissions that constitute an unexcused pattern of inattention that
amounts to an abdication of the director's duty to the Registrant or its
stockholders, for improper transactions between the director and the Registrant
and for improper distributions to stockholders and loans to directors and
officers. This provision also does not affect a director's responsibilities
under any other laws, such as the federal securities laws or state or federal
environmental laws. In addition, the Registrant has entered into contractual
agreements with each of its directors and certain officers of the Registrant
designated by the Board to indemnify such individuals to the fullest extent
permitted by law.

ITEM 7.        EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION CLAIMED.

         Not applicable.

ITEM 8.        EXHIBITS.
EXHIBIT                                      
       NUMBER               DESCRIPTION
4.1    1995 Stock Incentive Plan, as amended March 9, 1998

         5.1    Opinion of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C., with respect
                to the securities being registered.

        23.1    Consent of Ernst & Young LLP, Independent Auditors.

        23.2    Consent of Counsel (contained in Exhibit 5.1).

        24.1    Power of Attorney (see page II-4).
ITEM 9.        UNDERTAKINGS.

         A.   The undersigned Registrant 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.

                  (2)   That, for the purpose of determining any liability under
the Securities Act of 1933, 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.

                                      II-2
4

                  (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 undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of
determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the
registrant's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (and, where applicable, each filing of an
employee benefit plan's annual report pursuant to section 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934) 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 of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling
persons of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise,
the registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and
Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed
in the Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for
indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the
registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling
person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or
proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in
connection with the securities being registered, the registrant will, unless in
the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent,
submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such
indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the 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 San Diego, State of California, on this 24th day of
July 1998.

                                        DOCUMENT SCIENCES CORPORATION

                                        By: /s/ Alan H. Lynchosky
                                            ------------------------------------
                                            Alan H Lynchosky, Acting President 
                                            and Chief Executive Officer

                                POWER OF ATTORNEY

         KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature
appears below constitutes and appoints Alan Lynchosky, his or her
attorney-in-fact, each with the power of substitution, 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 their substitute or
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 by the following persons in the
capacities and on the dates indicated.
Signature                                         Title                                          Date
---------------------------          -------------------------------------------------------         -------------
/s/ Alan H. Lynchosky                Acting President and Chief Executive Officer (Principal         July 24, 1998
---------------------------                                                                 
(Alan H. Lynchosky)                  Executive Officer)

/s/ John H. Wilson                   Acting Chief Financial Officer, (Principal Financial            July 24, 1998
---------------------------                                                              
(John H. Wilson)                     Officer)

/s/ Thomas L. Ringer                 Chairman of the Board of Directors                              July 24, 1998
---------------------------
(Thomas L. Ringer)

/s/ Colin J. O'Brien                 Director                                                        July 24, 1998
---------------------------
(Colin J. O'Brien)

/s/ James J. Costello                Director                                                        July 24, 1998
---------------------------
(James J. Costello)

/s/ Charles P. Holt                  Director                                                        July 24, 1998
---------------------------
(Charles P. Holt)

/s/ Barton L. Faber                  Director                                                        July 24, 1998
---------------------------
(Barton L. Faber)
II-4
6

                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

                             WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

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                       REGISTRATION STATEMENT ON FORM S-8

                                      UNDER

                           THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

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

                          DOCUMENT SCIENCES CORPORATION

                                  JULY 24, 1998

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                                    EXHIBITS
7

                                INDEX TO EXHIBITS
EXHIBIT                                                       
       NUMBER                      DESCRIPTION
4.1    1995 Stock Incentive Plan, as amended March 9, 1998

         5.1    Opinion of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C., with respect
                to the securities being registered.

        23.1    Consent of Ernst & Young LLP, Independent Auditors.

        23.2    Consent of Counsel (contained in Exhibit 5.1).

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