Date:    1/5/98  2:28 PM
Subject: File No. S7-25-97

We would like to register our strong disapproval of the proposed changes in 
shareholder resolution rules.  Proponents of the changes argue that a 
resolution that doesn't attract 6% of shareholders deserves to be banished 
from consideration.  But our corporate system is not one shareholder, one 
vote -- it is one share, one vote.  And the vast majority of shares are held by 
corporate management, mutual funds, and pension funds which invariably vote 
with corporate management.  Under these circumstances, even a 3% threshold 
represents a significant proportion of shareholders. 
     
Please don't take away one of the few methods of inducing corporations to be 
responsible to their individual shareholders! 
     
As an alternative, we propose a new rule that allows individual holders of 
mutual funds and pension funds to cast proxy votes in the companies in which 
those funds invest. 
     
Thank you for your attention to our comments. 
     
     John and Patti Zussman 
     Portola Valley, California 
     
<We speak for ourselves and not for Oracle Corporation>