The VMWare market cap in 2016 was ~$32B, of course there's no objective way to answer your question definitely as yes or no but I'd say that VMWare was already at that point more than comfortably a more or less de-facto standard for virtualization.
https://accelerationeconomy.com/cloud/amazon-shocker-ceo-jas...
[1] Andy Jassy is my skip^9 manager.