A reference for the fact that flat maps are open in the complex-analytic category is Theorem 2.12, p. 180 in
C. Bănică, O. Stănăşilă: Algebraic methods in the global theory of complex spaces.
See also my answer to MO question 41158.
Francesco Polizzi
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